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of Occurrences 367%

He was quite proud of that daily record and remembered to write in it on an average of once a week.

for Occurrences 38%

The number of glaciers in the Alps, according to the Schlagintweit brothers, is 1100, of which 100 may be regarded as primary, and the total area of ice, snow, and névé is estimated at 1177 square miles, or an average for each glacier of little more than one square mile.

in Occurrences 33%

The land in question, if we deduct the sites of towns and villages and cities, as should be done, will not average in value three dollars per acre.

from Occurrences 20%

The hogs usually killed for purposes of bacon in England average from 18 to 20 stone; on the other hand, the hogs killed in the country for farm-house purposes, seldom weigh less than 26 stone.

per Occurrences 10%

184 December 188 making the average per month in 1917 355 mines.

at Occurrences 10%

The most that the horses could possibly average at a retail price was as much as these men were willing to pay wholesale.

to Occurrences 8%

The rivers, unlike most others in Western Australia, have nearly an even fall throughout their entire length, amounting on an average to six feet per mile; this, in a country subject to the sudden fall of almost tropical rains, is what gives rise to the destructive inundations already described.

about Occurrences 7%

DURING THE OPERATIONS OF BOILING, BOASTING, AND BAKING, fresh beef and mutton, when moderately fat, lose, according to Johnston, on an average about In boiling.

by Occurrences 3%

In Germany, before the War, in the period 1908-1913, the population increased on an average by 843,000 persons a year, the difference between the people born alive and the dead.

during Occurrences 3%

The reader perceives that the amount of time, in which by the preceding laws of Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia, the convicts in their prisons are required to labor, is on an average during the year but little more than NINE HOURS daily.

on Occurrences 3%

But what do you mean by calling him average, if he's such a keen judge of hardware?" "Oh, well, he is more than average on hardware, but he's so beautifully average human; one of those chaps who do most of the real work of the world.

over Occurrences 3%

Taking a columnar section of our coal field, and computing the thickness of each shale stratum, we have from twenty-five to sixty feet in thickness of this metal-bearing substance, which averages over twenty-five per cent.

above Occurrences 2%

As to the colored department clerks, I think it fair to say that in educational equipment they average above the white clerks of the same grade; for, whereas a colored college graduate will seek such a job, the white university man goes into one of the many higher vocations which are open to him.

than Occurrences 2%

"Secondly, the facility with which a settler can bring his farm into a state of immediate culture, in consequence of the open state of the country, which allows not a greater average than two trees to an acre.

with Occurrences 2%

The mesmerist and the electro-biologist will fail upon an average with nine patients out of tenso may the evil spirit.

between Occurrences 2%

Previous to 1812, the navigation of the Upper Ohio was carried on by means of about 150 small barges, averaging between thirty and forty tons burden, and the time consumed in ascending from the Falls to Pittsburg was a full month.

as Occurrences 2%

With the most perfect apparatus of compression, however, we doubt if contemporary literature will yield anything like so high an average as 1 in 726.] "8.

throughout Occurrences 1%

The largest engines we have made of this type so far are those of S.S. Martello, which have cylinders 31 inches, 50 inches, and 82 inches diameter by 57 inches strokes and indicate at sea 2,400 horse power when running at 60 revolutions with steam of 150 lb. pressure; the consumption of Yorkshire coal is 37 tons per day average throughout a New York voyage.

under Occurrences 1%

In the next three (fiscal) years, 1892-1894, the average rate proved to be over 49 per cent on dutiable (4 per cent increase) and 22 per cent on free and dutiable (the remission of sugar duties accounting for the most of this fall of 8 per cent from the average under the preceding law4 per cent fall from the last year of its operation).

bandfor Occurrences 1%

The Orangerie has, however, a very good average bandfor Germany.

below Occurrences 1%

Some of them have been justly criticised for tardiness in cleaning up their dockets, and it is undoubtedly true that their capacity for turning out work is on the average below that of their Americans associates.

within Occurrences 1%

Still the variations cannot be important over so small an area: the petty and fitful changes of every day are more noticeable, but the climate has its average within which these local caprices occur.

out Occurrences 1%

If we put this at 10 per cent.which, taken absolutely, is probably sufficientit means that onthe average out of ten supply-vessels sent we expect nine to reach their destination.

without Occurrences 1%

Here, then, is Mr. Buckle's average without the existence of a society, and therefore without any action of social law.

among Occurrences 1%

If one could strike an average among poets, it would probably be true to say that, so far as inspiration is concerned, Blake is to the average poet, as the average poet is to the man in the street.

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