51 Metaphors for quantity

Thirty new huts were built; special cooks and nurses were detailed; and quantities of special foodstuffs were boughtyams, plantains, flour, fresh and salt fish, and fresh beef heads, tongues, hearts and bellies; but it is not surprising to find that the next outlay for equipment was for a large new hospital in 1794, costing £341 for building its brick walls alone.

Besides the use of Wheat for bread and other domestic purposes, large quantities are every season consumed in making starch, which is the pure fecula of the grain obtained by steeping it in water and beating it in coarse hempen bags, by which means the fecula is thus caused to exude and diffuse through the water.

But the quantity of land comprised in the upper half of all the mountains of the world is a very small fraction of the total surface of the globe, and this would lead to very disastrous results.

This quantity is little more than half that imported by the English in the year 1784.

The quantity made was ten and a half quarterns, or four-pound loaves; and, as I have said, supplied our family of thirteen persons for the week.

Common sense balks at the idea of less than nothing; yet the minus quantity, which in one sense is less than nothing in that something must be added to it to make it equal to nothing, is a concept without which algebra would have to come to a full stop.

Consequently the quantity of the world is neither finite nor infinite.

The entire quantity raised in 1840 was eighty-three thousand seven hundred and ninety piculs; in 1841, eighty-seven thousand.

You must know he is just now diverted from the pursuit of BELL LETTERS by a paradox, which he has heard his friend Frend (that learned mathematician) maintain, that the negative quantities of mathematicians were merae nugae,things scarcely in rerum naturâ, and smacking too much of mystery for gentlemen of Mr. Frend's clear Unitarian capacity.

The quantity exported annually is 13,000,000 pounds.

The usual quantity is twelve gallons per ton.

The quantity of land sold during the second and third quarters of 1852 was 334,451 acres; the amount received therefor was $623,687.

Quantity, not quality, becomes the great objective.

Let this fixed quantity be 1000 times 10 yards.

The prices at which they can buy their materials and borrow their capital, the quantities of their products which the public will consume, are factors at once vital to their prosperity and outside their own control.

[204] "The quantity of ten of any commodity; as a dicker of hides was ten hides, a dicker of iron ten bars.

You don't realize what they have given you, until you sit down in a roomful of ordinary books and see how tame and common the quantities are.'

The quantity of brown coal raised was only 11 1/2 million tons in 1879; in 1908 it was 66 3/4 million tons, and in value it has risen from 35 million to 170 million marks.

The quantity is a trifle over that in parts of Michigan, while much less than the average of all points east or south.

During the prevalence of dry winds, the earth in many districts of India becomes frosted over with nitrous efflorescences, and the great quantity shipped from the commercial ports, and that consumed in China, is thus a natural production of that region.

QUANTITY, or TIME in pronunciation, is the measure of sounds or syllables in regard to their duration; and, by way of distinction, is supposed ever to determine them to be either long or short.

Quantity is simply the time of utterance, whether long or short.

Supposing that by some accident the soup is not quite clear, and that its quantity is 2 quarts, take the whites of 2 eggs, carefully separated from their yolks, whisk them well together with the water, and add gradually the 2 quarts of boiling stock, still whisking.

"Quantity is the Length or Shortness of Syllables; and the Proportion, generally speaking, betwixt a long and [a] short Syllable, is two to one; as in Music, two Quavers to one Crotchet.

The quantity of game seen in this part of the country was also a favourable indication.

51 Metaphors for  quantity