If all the youths and old men, the sick and maimed, could have been eliminated from the Boer forces, eighty per cent, would probably have been found to be a low estimate of the number thus subtracted from the total force.
It was found that the Queen's general subtracted two and a half per cent, out of the pay of those troops, for his own use, which amounted to a great annual sum.
The attorney-general was ordered to commence an action against the Duke for the subtracted money, which would have amounted to a great sum, enough to ruin any private person, except himself.
Or unless," he said, "my father should have received almost nothing for his share of the enormous sums subtracted from the Mutual Credit, in which case he could have given relatively but little to that woman.
This in forty-two years, (the eight being subtracted from the fifty) would amount to just six years.
This in forty-two years, the eight being subtracted from the fifty, would amount to just six years.
This in forty-two years, the eight being subtracted from the fifty, would amount to just six years.
This amount is subtracted from the total amount of liquid, and for the remaining the correction is calculated with reference to the temperature of the laboratory during the time of the analysis.
The weight of Na{2}CO{3} found is subtracted from the total residue insoluble in alcohol, the difference is the weight of the salts and foreign matters.
And this would be repeated each successive year, each saving added to B C being “exactly so much subtracted from the profits of the next and of every following year.
Gaul[24] and the British--would be materially impaired by any thing which subtracted from the evidence in favour of that relationship.
Greek drama, the Greek epics, the Greek histories, or the Greek orations could be forged, a great deal would be subtracted from the proofs of their antiquity.
They will pay for the security of Comfort, calling it national worship, or national defence, if too much money is not subtracted from the means of individual comfort: if too much foresight is not demanded for the comfort of their brains.
They brought him back to the dusty road and everyday life again; they subtracted him from his big dream, in which he had been detached from the details of his catastrophe.
But before the anarchist subtracted himself from his occupation, he had appropriated certain sums of money, and these had helped to carry him on, when he attached himself to the revolutionaries.
This vapor exerts a definite pressure, which acts in opposition to the atmospheric pressure and which therefore must be subtracted from the latter in determining the effective pressure upon the gas.
If the weight of the empty flask is subtracted from these two weighings, the relative weights of the gases is readily found.
This being so, the thermometer is radiating its heat to walls and surrounding objects, in addition to what is subtracted by the air that surrounds it, and thus the air is really several degrees warmer than the thermometer indicates.
The watch is not stopped, and therefore each element time consists of the watch reading of the last element subtracted from the reading of the element under consideration.
Such a tax would besubtracted from the interest at the time of payment, without any expense of collection.
I thensubtracted three ounces of blood and gave a physic-ball.
I subtracted six ounces of blood, administered a physic-ball, and ordered the patient to be well fomented with warm water several times during the night.
Eight ounces more of blood were subtractedwithout benefit.
So many days of remitted penance correspond to a work of a certain merit, for there is a celestial currency in which mulcts and remissions may be accurately summed and subtracted by angelic recorders.
And when that imputed and incongruous utility was subtracted from ideas they would appear in their proper form of expressions, realisations, ultimate fruits.
For example, if a subtraction sum was to be dictated to "Standard II," the child was taught that the number which was given out first was to be placed in the upper line, and that the number which came next was to be subtracted from this.
The Equation of Time shows how many minutes are to be added to, or subtracted from, sun-dial time in order to show clock time.
With this method all expenses are subtracted from all sales and to the cash balance thus obtained is added orsubtracted the increase or decrease in the inventory.
From the farm income is now subtracted a reasonable interest on the investment, the balance remaining is called the labor income.
With the interest on the investment method, all expenses may be subtracted from all the sales.
From that, however, had to be subtracted the cost of the dresses and the professional man from Plymouth, and also the cost of the programmes and the piano man.
This only left seven performances, and after we had subtracted most of the chaps who were going to perform in the plays, there was still an immense amount of mixed ability to choose from.
That the true longitude of the moon may be obtained more accurately, these must be subtracted from the longitude of the moon already calculated in the first and third quadrant of the circle of the second index.
The result is that the total amount subtracted is equivalent to the nine extra blocks of shares allotted to the children.
But that was not enough for his noble heart, and he subtracted from his pleasures or his necessities a sum sufficient to save the honor of the unfortunate girl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subtracted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
