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Among


Definition:

  • (prep.) Alt. of Amongst

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Among its signatories were Michael Moore, Oliver Stone, Noam Chomsky and Danny Glover.
  • (2) There was appreciable variation in toothbrush wear among subjects, some reducing their brush to a poor state in 2 weeks whereas with others the brush was rated as "good" after 10 weeks.
  • (3) These results indicated that the PG determination was the most accurate predictor of fetal lung well-being prior to birth among the clinical tests so far reported.
  • (4) Among the pathological or abnormal ECGs (25.6%) prevailed the vegetative-functional heart diseases with 92%.
  • (5) PMS is more prevalent among women working outside the home, alcoholics, women of high parity, and women with toxemic tendency; it probably runs in families.
  • (6) Until his return to Brazil in 1985, Niemeyer worked in Israel, France and north Africa, designing among other buildings the University of Haifa on Mount Carmel; the campus of Constantine University in Algeria (now known as Mentouri University); the offices of the French Communist party and their newspaper l'Humanité in Paris; and the ministry of external relations and the cathedral in Brasilia.
  • (7) The frequency of rare fragile sites was studied among 240 children in special schools for subnormal intelligence (IQ 52-85).
  • (8) The prevalence of 24.4% among Mexican American men was similar to that among men from other ethnic backgrounds.
  • (9) Pretraining consumption did not predict (among animals) post-training consumption.
  • (10) Among a family of 8 children, 4 presented typical clinical and biological abnormalities related to mannosidosis.
  • (11) Among the migrants from the regions with contrasting climatic conditions.
  • (12) The fluctuations in [Ca2+]i measured with fura-2 were synchronized among the population of cells observed and were sensitive to extracellular Ca2+ concentration ([Ca2+]o).
  • (13) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (14) Among the groups investigated, the subjects with gastric tumors presented the greatest values.
  • (15) Complementarity determining regions (CDR) are conserved to different extents, with the first CDR region in all family members being among the most conserved segments of the molecule.
  • (16) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (17) The epidemiology of HIV infection among women and hence among children has progressively changed since the onset of the epidemic in Western countries.
  • (18) This postulate is supported by a limited study of the serovars present among the isolates.
  • (19) Given Australia’s number one position as the worst carbon emitter per capita among major western nations it seems hardly surprising that islanders from Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and other small island developing states have been turning to Australia with growing exasperation demanding the country demonstrate an appropriate response and responsibility.
  • (20) The disassembly of the synthetase complex is consistent with the structural model of a heterotypic multienzyme complex and suggests that the complex formation is due to the specific intermolecular interactions among the synthetases.

Amongst


Definition:

  • (prep.) Mixed or mingled; surrounded by.
  • (prep.) Conjoined, or associated with, or making part of the number of; in the number or class of.
  • (prep.) Expressing a relation of dispersion, distribution, etc.; also, a relation of reciprocal action.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The reaction of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) with chicken erythrocyte nuclei produces covalent cross-linking of HMG proteins 1, 2 and E to DNA, in addition to cross-links amongst LMG proteins.
  • (2) Amongst the positive cases, 92 (91.1%) showed P. falciparum and 9 (8.9%) P. vivax infection.
  • (3) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (4) There are approximately 20 copies of Tc1(Hin) amongst the Tc1's present in the Bergerac genome.
  • (5) During a time of ongoing industrial action in response to a continuing position of contractual imposition, there is obvious and significant discontent amongst the junior doctor workforce.” Junior doctors are only willing to support the review after the current industrial dispute is resolved, the statement ends.
  • (6) There were 18 primary cases amongst pilgrims returning from Mecca and 15 subsequent cases among Muslims over the following 19 months.
  • (7) Lahoor Talabani, director of counter terrorism for the Kurdistan Regional Government, said: "According to the intelligence we have, just Britain alone have around 400 to 450 known people fighting amongst the ranks of Isis."
  • (8) From research interviews with the parents we found increased rates of psychiatric disorder (abnormalities of emotions, behaviour or relationships) amongst them.
  • (9) There were fewer organic diagnoses amongst the patients under the age of 30 (P less than 0.05) and those with symptoms for less than 3 months (P less than 0.01).
  • (10) Amongst the 134 cases suitable for evaluation, there were 86.6% of greater than 50% responses including 45.5% complete responses (CR).
  • (11) 1.15am GMT It’s not all about quarterbacks In amongst all the talk about Brees and Foles, at least one Eagles player has been getting far too little attention coming into this game.
  • (12) Amongst several proteins detected in these preparations, the four major HSV-1 glycoproteins, gB, gC, gD, and gE, were found to be present.
  • (13) There was concordance amongst the three groups in some areas but there were also differences between patients, R.N.
  • (14) Amongst 7 cases with bacilli which were originally resistant to Isoniazid (4 and 3 respectively), there were 2 failures at 6 months one in each group with acquired resistance to Rifampicin observed at the time of the failure.
  • (15) One exception to this rule is France, which once counted the Central African Republic amongst its dominions.
  • (16) Small variations in sarcomere length amongst test contractions were observed, but these variations could not account for the effects of the test interval.
  • (17) Finally, causes of death have been analysed amongst adult patients dying during 1984, showing myocardial ischaemia and infarction to be the leading cause of mortality.
  • (18) Such a genomic structure does not appear to have been reported amongst the herpesviruses--all the genomes that do not isomerize either have repeat structures only at the termini, or if present internally, have only direct repeats.
  • (19) Reconstruction experiments using genomic DNA demonstrate that this procedure cna measure the presence of 30 copies of the transforming ras allele present amongst 3 x 10(6) copies of the wild-type allele.
  • (20) Women who had experienced alcohol problems were significantly more likely than other women to have used illegal drugs but were not distinctive in relation to the number of birth abnormalities evident amongst their offspring.

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