The stem is crowned by a splendid cluster of flowers, usually about half a dozen together, but sometimes as many as thirty on one stalk.
This is very variable, and is usually about a foot high, with several hairy stems, springing from a long yellow root.
The compact flower clusters, usually about five in number and rather small, are arranged in tiers on long slender stalks, which stand up stiffly all over the bush.
Place in a granite utensil and steam until tender (usually about 45 minutes).
Bake in a hot oven until sufficiently baked, usually about 20 minutes (see tests below).
The large nucleus (n) is either spherical or lenticular, and more or less depressed in the main axis; its diameter is usually about half as great as that of the enclosing capsule, 0.
The cavity (always neatly finished off, but very rarely regularly lined, and then only with very fine grass-stems or roots) is usually about 3 inches in diameter by 2 inches in depth.
This stream soon cuts itself a channel, usually about 20 or 30 yards wide, through which the lagoon is rapidly drained, soon cutting out an open space of greater or less extent in the sea ice.
We collected seven such whale-harpoon boxes, usually about 9 to 93/4 inches long.
The nut is much compressed, pointed or rounded at the apex, rounded at the base, usually about 2 cm.
During the winter and temperate months, when the distilleries are most actively at work, the temperature at which the worts are set is usually about 70 deg.
The greatest heat of the couch is usually about 96 hours after the barley has been taken out of the steep.
The boiling point differs in different kinds, but it isusually about 316 deg.
All the Tusayan kivas are in the form of a parallelogram, usually about 25 feet long and half as wide, the ceiling, which is from 5½ to 8 feet high, being slightly higher in the middle than at either end.
Across the end of the kiva on the main floor a ledge of masonry is built, usually about 2 feet high and 1 foot wide, which serves as a shelf for the display of fetiches and other paraphernalia during stated observances (see Fig.
The ordinary mat is usually about 2 meters by 1 1/2 meters, though smaller and larger ones are made.
The high cost of these dyes results from the adulteration practiced and the exorbitant profits, usually about 450 per cent.
This unseemly fish is usually about a foot in length, and ten or more inches in breadth, and sometimes weighs seven pounds.
The Chimpanzee lives in the trees, upon the branches of which he is very active, and he has intelligence enough to build himself a sort of hut of branches, usually about thirty or forty feet from the ground.
Usually about one-quarter of an inch of glymol is added to the fat column.
In water-content much variation is found, but ripe Parmesan is usually about 30 per cent water.
In order to be able to compare the filters from the different dairy-men's milk, the same amount of each patron's milk is filtered, usually about a pint.
Place the cups in a baking pan, add one quart of water and then place in a moderate oven and bake until firm in the centre, usually about twenty-five minutes.
Usually about thirty-five minutes for small terrapin and seventy-five minutes for large ones.
Season and cover again and cook slowly until the meat and vegetables are tender, usually about thirty-five minutes.
It is usually about 3 feet long and 1 foot wide, is blackened with a greasy soot, though now and again one in original wood is seen.
These are dumped into baskets, usually the carrying basket of the man, and when the day's catch is made and divided each man receives an equal share, usually about 1 pound per household.
The length of the teeth is usually about 5/8ths of the pitch.
The thickness of metal of the cylinder ends is usually about a third more than the thickness of the cylinder itself, and both ends are generally made removable.
The stipes is usually about one-third of the whole leaf, and is sometimes of a brownish colour.
The length of the leaves varies from one to three feet, and the stipes is usually about a third of this in measurement.
The fronds, which are lanceolate in outline and about four inches to a foot in length, arise from a tufted root-stock; the stipes is usually about a third of the frond.
The plant has a thickish root-stock from which arise the fronds, usually about a foot in length.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "usually about" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
