Sentence examples for breeds about from inspiring English sources

He is brooding over the location of the soul (perhaps Sokurov's reference is to Lear: "Let them anatomise Regan, see what breeds about her heart") and agonising over his extreme poverty.

The supreme tunesmith who's also a sublime wordsmith is that rarest of mixed breeds — about as rare as the trust-fund playboy who's also a workaholic prodigy, or the cosmopolitan dandy who's fluent in streetwise American lingo.

This is in accordance with the recent fragmentation of local goat populations into discrete breeds about 200 years ago, under strong selection pressures on a few phenotypic traits [39].

In all breeds, about 40% of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are highly variable (MAF > 0.3) and 15% exhibit limited variability (MAF < 0.1).

For small breeds this is about 1 year old, for medium breeds, about 1-1.5 years old, for large and giant breeds, 2+ years old.

Averaged over simulations, the heterozygosity of each breed was about 0.3, and the mean difference in allele frequencies between breeds was about 0.3.

More than 77% of the mtDNA variation is distributed within breeds while about 11% is found among breeds within geographic regions and 12 % among geographic regions (Table 3).

Creepy as this is, "Breed" is about to get much creepier.

Between them, they breed about 1m puppies a year.

She favored English cocker spaniels and German shepherds and bred about 80 other breeds.

With extinctions rising and habitats being destroyed, zoos are trying to breed about 160 endangered species in captivity.