Sentence examples for ancient units from inspiring English sources

Such checks include dating a series of ancient units with closely spaced but known relative ages and replicate analysis of different parts of the same rock body with samples collected at widely spaced localities.

An ancient unit derived from the Gauls and introduced into England by the Normans, the league was estimated by the Romans to be equal to 1,500 paces a pace, or passus, in Roman measure being nearly 5 feet (1.5 metres).

The diameters of the outer bank, the ditch, the inner bank, and the circle of Aubrey Holes are equivalent to 270, 300, 330, and 360 long feet (a long foot is an ancient unit of measurement equivalent to 1.056 statute feet or 0.32187 metre), respectively.

Cubits are an ancient unit of measurement based on the distance from the elbow to the tips of the fingers, so different cultures had different values for the length of one cubit.

Other ancient volcanic units document various cycles of mountain building.

Recognizing such blocks of adjacent genes is essential to study them as ancient evolutionary units.

The different data obtained in this work suggest that blocks of adjacent POGs which display conserved co-occurence in various present-day genomes can be interpreted as ancient evolutionary units that have resisted over the years to the imperious fluidity forces.

Many primary school teachers will also welcome the resurrection of the ancient Egypt unit of study, which was squeezed out of the February draft.

Bat, also spelled baht or bath, also called ephah, in a measurement system, ancient Hebrew unit of liquid and dry capacity.

Amphora, ancient Roman unit of capacity for grain and liquid products equal to 48 sextarii and equivalent to about 27.84 litres (7.36 U.S. gallons).

My social studies teacher showed it to us during our Ancient Rome unit (I remember her calling Heston "the perfect man" and doing a little sexual shoulder shimmy as if to say "yum yum").