(1) Water containing ornamental fishes was found to frequently contain countable numbers of bacteria that were resistant to one or more antibiotic or chemotherapeutic agents.
(2) Two of our four subjects had reduced but countable numbers of CFU-E, BFU-E, and GFU-GM in methylcellulose culture.
(3) During the first day the vitality of the cells diminishes whereby they become stainable and countable.
(4) Such spleen colonies represent the bulk of the countable nodules that form the basis of the widely applied murine "stem cell" assay.
(5) A majority of SSI recipients had less than +100 in countable resources, and only about 12 percent of SSI recipients had more than +1,000 of resources.
(6) Using L-Arterenol and sodium citrate in combination with standard chromosome culture techniques, 12 of 17 consecutive tumors (75%) had countable figures ranging from 5 cells to 59 cells.
(7) "There might be some projects out there that are not flawed but they are hardly even countable let's say," said Filzmoser.
(8) Countable bone metastases detected by bone scintigraphy were evaluated whether the lesion showed apparent, faint, or negative Ga-67 uptake.
(9) Cemental annulations are easily countable in teeth from animals that have an exaggerated regular change of food intake from season to season.
(10) The canonical countable entity for 3- and 4-year-old children is a discrete physical object.
(11) Cells furnished tryptone (Difco) and glycerol just before aerosolization increased (in viable numbers and countable cells) almost twofold within 1 to 2 h after becoming airborne, whereas cells not furnished additional tryptone decreased in viable numbers at a faster rate than the number of particles removed by gravitational settling.
(12) This paper deals with isolated, countable items, often termed particles, in three-dimensional space.
(13) Epidemiologists, who by themselves work only with countable phenomena of the macro-world, must collaborate with specialists in subjects below the macro-level if they wish to improve the explanatory power and validity of their results.
(14) When heavily stained with Giemsa, the colonies of transformed cells were grossly visible and countable.
(15) So it is necessary to use always two inoculations for all specimens and the resistance is calculated on the medium inoculated with the same doses, for that, colonies on the control must be countable and suitable number that is 50-300.
(16) In order to receive payments under the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, an aged, blind, or disabled person's countable resources must fall below specified limits.
(17) Lymphoma 6C3HED-OG cells, known from previous work to be susceptible to the effects of guinea pig serum in vivo and dependent upon extrinsic asparagine for protein synthesis and growth in vitro, remained for the most part morphologically intact and countable in the electronic cell counter following exposures of 1 and 2 hr to the effects of heated (56 degrees C, 30 min) guinea pig serum injected into the peritoneal cavities of mice in which the lymphoma cells were growing rapidly; after exposures of 4 and 6 hr the bulk of the -OG cells remained still intact and countable in the cell counter, though by this time a small proportion of them (5 to 12%) proved stainable with eosin in wet preparations) hence were presumably nonviable.
(18) With a 90-min invasion time, the invasive potential of a strain was reflected by the multiplicity of infection needed to produce countable wells.
(19) Fourteen to 24 months later, 33% (10 of 30) of the mice had countable numbers of acid-fast bacilli (greater than 2 X 10(4)) with the characteristics of M. leprae in one or more homogenates prepared from ears, foot pads, nose or lungs.
(20) The earliest lymphocytes with sIg in fetal lambs were demonstrable at 52 days (96 mm crown-rump length) and countable by 56 days (110 mm CRL) at 0.3% sIg.
Plural
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, or containing, more than one; designating two or more; as, a plural word.
(n.) The plural number; that form of a word which expresses or denotes more than one; a word in the plural form.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus it is unclear how a language learner determines whether German even has a regular plural, and if so what form it takes.
(2) Discussion deals with the plurality, specificity, variability, perceived necessity, sufficiency, international utility and career significance of British postgraduate qualifications.
(3) A lawyer advising one of the newspaper groups opposing the deal said: "All the regulator has to prove is that there is a potential for a reduction in plurality in the UK.
(4) The BBC should not be forced to close any channels or axe any programmes as part of any review of plurality and ownership in the media industry, according to a submission the broadcaster has filed with media regulator Ofcom .
(5) How are medical roles adapted to the situation of medical pluralism and the predicaments that flow from such a situation.
(6) Plural HCV-J genomes were found in two of the cDNAs derived from liver specimens, and a deletion of 102 nucleotides was found in the cDNA derived from one plasma specimen.
(7) The Conservative peer and chancellor of the University of Oxford took the view – rightly – two decades ago that Hong Kong’s prosperity was underpinned by a free and plural society.
(8) "I find it quite curious that it's Mark Thompson who is leading the charge about News Corp's plurality when the BBC always put their hands up and say we're impartial.
(9) Starting of from the notion that medicine presents a plurality of aims, it is proposed that it should be conceived as a "science of actions" rather than as a "science of objects".
(10) Of particular importance in shaping public policy are four factors: (1) the American character, including ideas and attitudes that are the basis of politics and policy; (2) the pluralism that characterizes the process, including the relationship between government and the private sector and the dominant role of the private sector; (3) the federal system that distributes authority among various levels of government (federalism); and (4) incrementalism, which is the step-by-step process that characterizes the development of policies.
(11) These observations indicate a plurality of sites of action of GAL on digestive tract motility including local duodenal receptors and suggest the importance of a spinal component in the control of motility by GAL when given intrathecally.
(12) "Well I think Christopher [Pyne] said schools would get the same amount of money, and schools – plural – will get the same amount of money.
(13) The National Infant Mortality Surveillance (NIMS) project aggregated data provided by 53 vital statistics reporting areas--50 States, New York City, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico (subsequently called States)--from their files of linked birth and death certificates and compared individual States' total infant mortality experiences for the 1980 birth cohort by age at death, race, birth weight, and plurality.
(14) A case of presumed psychosis in a 16-year-old Taiwanese girl is examined to show the role of performance in creating meaning in a plural medical system.
(15) On the evidence available, I consider that it may be the case that the merger may operate against the public interest in media plurality," Hunt said.
(16) Mr Cable can now prove his faith in competition by referring the Sky bid on the grounds of the effect it would have on media plurality.
(17) The regulators have confirmed that the proposed undertakings are still sufficient to ensure media plurality," Hunt said.
(18) They merely want a genuinely plural political system and fair elections.
(19) The NRA has not won the argument – only a tiny percentage believe, like the NRA, that controls are too strict and a plurality want to make them stricter – but they do keep on winning the votes.
(20) The use of singular and plural first-person pronouns provided a measure of individuality and mutuality in families of 18 field-dependent and 20 field-independent children (19 boys and 19 girls).