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The boy grew taller and taller, till at last he exceeded his father in height.

Imports exceeded exports last year.

In October of 1994, the U.S government announced that the prison population in that country exceeded one million.

Our profits in our first year of business actually exceeded our expectations.

Today's high exceeded the maximum recorded temperature for the month of July previously set in 1946.

Sales of the iMac computer exceeded all expectations within the first year.

He exceeded his quota of clams when he went clam-digging at the beach, so he had to pay a fine.

It is equally[Pg 179] important that the twenty minutes should not be exceeded in sterilisation, as neglect of this precaution may discolour the litmus or lead to the production of yellowish tints when the tubes are subsequently inoculated with acid-forming bacteria.

In Celestial Observations we have far exceeded all the Antients, even the Chaldeans and Egyptians themselves, whose vast Plains, high Towers, and clear Air, did not give them so great advantages over us, as have over them by our Glasses.

The line E which was the the measure of the Microscope, is 1/32 part of an English Inch, so that the greatest bredth of any of them, exceeded not 1/128 part of an Inch.

Which particular seems to me, very worthy a more serious consideration; For here we may observe Nature, as 'twere, put to its shifts, to make a substance, which shall be both light enough, and very stiff and strong, without varying from its own establish'd principles, which we may observe to be such, that very strong bodies are for the most part very heavie also, a strength of the parts usually requiring a density, and a density a gravity; and therefore should Nature have made a body so broad and so strong as a Feather, almost, any other way then what it has taken, the gravity of it must necessarily have many times exceeded this; for this pith seems to be like so many stops or cross pieces in a long optical tube, which do very much contribute to the strength of the whole, the pores of which were such, as that they seem'd not to have any communication with one another, as I have elsewhere hinted.

Those Seeds or Eggs must certainly be very small, which so small a creature as a Gnat yields, and therefore, we need not wonder that we find not the Eggs themselves, some of the younger of them, which I have observ'd, having not exceeded a tenth part of the bulk they have afterwards come to; and next, I have observed some of those little ones which must have been generated after the Water was inclosed in the Bottle, and therefore most probably from Eggs, whereas those creatures have been suppos'd to be bred of the corruption of the Water, there being not formerly known any probable way how they should be generated.

They had lain in the pile for about three years and late in November the compost was literally covered with this species, many of whose caps exceeded five inches while the color and figuration of the plants were quite typical.

It might be supposed that the nitrogen evolved had been derived from the decomposition of the nitrogenous constituents of the plant, but this cannot be the true explanation, because in this particular case it greatly exceeded[Pg 59] the whole nitrogen contained in the plants experimented on.

9•05 0•14 2•77 Sand and Stones 29•15 55•87 95•91 84•97 ---- ---- ---- ---- 100•00 100•00 100•00 100•00 [Pg 150] It is easy to understand the importance of the effects produced by adding to any soil large quantities of a mud containing upwards of one per cent of phosphate of iron; and in point of fact, Herapath has calculated that in one particular instance the quantity of phosphoric acid brought by warping upon an acre of land, exceeded seven tons per acre.

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