Sentence examples for ordinary measuring from inspiring English sources

The first kind is the ordinary measuring of quantities relative to each other ('the great and small').

An ordinary measuring device would have flown apart in seconds, so the Geneva team had to make a clever--and controversial--substitution.

Before starting to pump water from the wells, the water level from the ground level was measured manually using an ordinary measuring tape.

In Greenland, the child's height was measured with the child standing barefoot against a wall, marking the top of the head and measuring the height to the nearest centimetre by use of ordinary measuring tape.

Alternatively, use an ordinary measuring cup.

Hannan, who is 45, is by no ordinary measure a front-rank British politician.

"Everyone wanted to treat Greece with ordinary measures," Mr. Hollande said.

(Russia cannot be understood with the mind, / She cannot be measured by ordinary measure: / She has her own particular stance — /All you can do is believe in her).

Many of these new patients spent years enjoying not just an ordinary measure of prosperity but the often-outsize financial, emotional and social rewards that accompanied the boom.

H.B. 2 may have seemed an ordinary measure of culture-war politics when the governor signed it, but the consensus position on L.G.B.T.Q.

Bill Gates, the boss of Microsoft and Mr Jobs's nemesis by any ordinary measure of business success he is the one with the operating-system monopoly, after all would kill to get Apple's enthusiastic product reviews.