(a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
(a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
(a.) A large or considerable number.
Example Sentences:
(1) The findings indicate that there is still a significant incongruence between the value structure of most family practice units and that of their institutions but that many family practice units are beginning to achieve parity of promotion and tenure with other departments in their institutions.
(2) The predicted non-Lorentzian line shapes and widths were found to be in good agreement with experimental results, indicating that the local orientational order (called "packing" by many workers) in the bilayers of small vesicles and in multilamellar membranes is substantially the same.
(3) They’re no crack force either; many are rather portly!
(4) In early 2000, during the first months of Vladimir Putin’s presidency, Babitsky was kidnapped by Russian forces and disappeared for many weeks.
(5) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
(6) To be fair to lads who find themselves just a bus ride from Auschwitz, a visit to the camp is now considered by many tourists to be a Holocaust "bucket list item", up there with the Anne Frank museum, where Justin Bieber recently delivered this compliment : "Anne was a great girl.
(7) It is likely that trunk mobility is necessary to maintain integrity of SI joint and that absence of such mobility compromises SI joint structure in many paraplegics.
(8) The performance characteristics of the CCD are well documented and understood, having been quantified by many experimenters, especially in the physical sciences.
(9) Because many wnt genes are also expressed in the lung, we have examined whether the wnt family member wnt-2 (irp) plays a role in lung development.
(10) After a discussion of the therapeutic relationship, several coping strategies which have been used successfully by many women are described and therapeutic applications are offered.
(11) But the sports minister has been clear that too many sports bodies are currently not delivering in bringing new people from all backgrounds to their sport.
(12) In many cases, physicians seek to protect themselves from involvement with these difficult, highly anxious patients by making a referral to a psychiatrist.
(13) Meanwhile, reductions in tax allowances on dividends for company shareholders from £5,000 down to £2,000 represent another dent to the incomes of many business owners.
(14) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(15) The evidence suggests that by the age of 15 years many adolescents show a reliable level of competence in metacognitive understanding of decision-making, creative problem-solving, correctness of choice, and commitment to a course of action.
(16) According to some reports as many as 30 people were killed in the explosion, although that figure could not be independently confirmed.
(17) Many problems at the macroscopic level require clarification of how an animal uses a compartment of suite of muscles and whether morphological differences reflect functional ones.
(18) In order to determine the extent of this similarity, I have developed a panel of probes for many of the Pacl restriction fragments and have shown that most of the Pacl and Notl fragments found in MBa are also present in MBb.
(19) Formerly, many patients in this category were considered either inoperable or candidates for total or partial nephrectomy.
(20) A re-examination of the literature indicates that many phagocytes previously unidentified or considered to be microglial cells are probably beta astrocytes.
Miny
Definition:
(a.) Abounding with mines; like a mine.
Example Sentences:
(1) Using mini-pigs with an indwelling vascular catheter, the pharmacokinetics of chloramphenicol were investigated in healthy and liver-damaged animals.
(2) Not only do they give employers no reason to turn them into proper jobs, but mini-jobs offer workers little incentive to work more because then they would have to pay tax.
(3) However, the City focused on the improvement in the fortunes of its Irish business, Ulster bank, and its new mini bad bank which led to a 1.8% rise in the shares to 368p.
(4) While it’s not unknown to see such self-balancing mini scooters on the pavement, under legal guidance reiterated on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service all such “personal transporters”, including hoverboards and Segways , are banned from the footpath.
(5) Values obtained by combining Mini-ESR with indices of the African Neonates were 100%, 85% and 94%.
(6) The capabilities of a mini-computer-oriented permanent pacemaker information system are described.
(7) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(8) We infer that a 5' cap is present on both of these RNAs and conclude that the mini-exon-derived RNA donates its 5' cap along with the mini-exon sequence to the pre-mRNA.
(9) EGF receptor-hyperproducing cells of squamous carcinoma origin were inoculated s.c. into the bilatero-abdominal regions of athymic mice and a mini-osmotic pump containing EGF was implanted on teh back.
(10) Mini-P1 plasmids and mini-F plasmids could not be introduced into the delta hupA-delta hupB double deletion mutant.
(11) However, insertion of a minitracheostomy tube over a dilator passed through an incision through the cricothyroid membrane (the suggested method of insertion of the 'Mini-trach II', [Portex]), can prove difficult.
(12) The gabCTDP gene cluster, which specifies and regulates synthesis of the gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) transport carrier, of glutamate-succinic semialdehyde transaminase, and of succinic semialdehyde dehydrogenase, responsible for the uptake and metabolism of gamma-aminobutyric acid in Escherichia coli K-12, was cloned in vivo, using the mini-Mu replicon bacteriophage Mu dI5086 as the vector.
(13) In 13 growing pigs (mini-pigs) all veins draining the head of femur were ligated intra-abdominally.
(14) Reliable and valid instruments, the Hamilton Rating Scale, the Visual Analogue Mood Scale, the Present State Exam, and the Mini-Mental State Exam were employed to display the psychopathology.
(15) The veins which are not compressable during erection can eventually be obliterated under radiological control with the help of mini-coils.
(16) With the SIDAM score (SISCO) [range 0 (minimum)-55 (maximum, no cognitive impairment)] and the SIDAM Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) (range 0-30), appropriate cutoffs for the category of DSM-III-R and ICD-10 dementia and "mild cognitive impairment" were defined.
(17) For each participant, we completed a questionnaire for the subject and an informant and a functional-capacity scale and Mini-Mental Status Examination by a community nurse, including the Clinical Dementia Rating (CDR) scale.
(18) This article describes a mini-unit to help teachers prevent molestation of elementary school children.
(19) The purpose of the 1988 Mini-Survey was the collection of up-to-date data from the ACNM membership, focusing on nurse-midwifery income.
(20) Clinical assessments employed the UBC scale and "Mini-Mental State" examination; neurophysiologic measurements were undertaken on wrist rigidity and speed and accuracy of hand movement, and toxicity screening tests were compared.