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In any case some allowance should be made for the amount of nitrogen collected by the legumes.

"The amount altogether is, you perceive, eleven hundred pounds," he continued.

VERNER'S PRIDEMRS. HENRY WOOD

But if they do not coincide, then the amount of error may be found by the micrometer wheel g, Fig. 1353.

The amount of silver it contains must be determined and recorded.

It is wonderful what an amount of labor it costs to earn even the little the natives seem to care for.

And, surely, she'd be well enough with him, a man with any amount of money and grand style and all.

WANDERERSKNUT HAMSUN

However, the annual cost of keeping up the colony does not amount to above 5000.

There was any amount of chatter at these musters; but on the other hand one seldom seemed to find oneself much forrarder.

The amount of compensation paid to the employee may also have a bearing on the amount of skill the employer has a right to expect.

COMMERCIAL LAWSAMUEL WILLISTON, RICHARD D. CURRIER, AND RICHARD W. HILL

The balance of power, so to speak, is the amount of rain or of soil-stored moisture during the summer season.

NORTH AMERICAISRAEL C. RUSSELL

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