Sentence examples for amount of feather from inspiring English sources

A huge amount of feather and leather wastes are generated every year as a by-product from the poultry and tannery industry due to continuous meat consumption worldwide.

According to Keeling et al. [ 29], the PMEL 17 (premelanosome protein) gene affects plumage melanisation and the amount of feather pecking received.

Each bird sheds an amount of feather dander per day, d t, T c ) = 326 exp(−  P(T c )/ t1.64) + 10.8 where P is a decreasing function of the duration of the cohort that measures how quickly birds reach their finishing weight (Islam and Walkden-Brown, 2007; Atkins et al., 2013).

Its coat is flat, with a small amount of feathering on the ears, underside, and legs.

Less conspicuous structural variations that are used in swift taxonomy include the position of the toes and the amount of feathering on the legs.

It was once famously said by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister to Louis XIV, that the "art of taxation was in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing".

"THE art of taxation", advised Louis XIV's treasurer, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, "consists in so plucking the goose to obtain the largest amount of feathers, with the least possible amount of hissing".

COLBERT said that "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing".

LOUIS XIV'S FINANCE minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, famously declared that "the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing".

The 17th-century French minister of finances said: "The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing".

LOUIS XIV's finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, believed that "the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing".