Sentence examples for peculiar number from inspiring English sources

Next up: Arnold Bax I was having a conversation about this series of blog posts with a friend recently, and said I intended to cover 70-odd composers (I think 73 was the peculiar number I came up with - my charmed circle of greatness).

The precise thermodynamic definition of the Kelvin scale and the rather peculiar number chosen to define its numerical values (i.e., 273.16) are historical choices made so that the ideal gas equation of state will have the simple mathematical form given by the right-hand side of equation (15).

One of the most peculiar numbers stations is UVB-76, also known as "the buzzer," which since at least the early 1980s has been emitting a steady, pulselike honk, with extremely rare vocal interruptions in Russian.

The text of the Gospels is not divided according to the Ammonian Sections with a references to the Eusebian Canons, but divided into peculiar numbered sections: Matthew has 170, Mark 61, Luke 152, and John 80.

Yet our continued use of 'failure' terminology generates a perhaps undeservedly negative connotation and a flawed fixation on correcting seemingly peculiar numbers that the body arguably does not want fixed.

The most peculiar feature was that among the ≤13 bp inversions, ultramicro inversions with odd number lengths were more frequent than those with even number lengths.

Entertaining the idea of a peculiar long number such as pi puts me in mind of its cousins twice removed, prime numbers, which have so many strange properties.

In particular, the channel surface roughness induced by the manufacturing process has been estimated and a peculiar Nusselt number correlation has been obtained.

De novo assembly of unmatched reads from non-coding DNA revealed peculiar copy-number variations defining specific UM subtypes, which in turn could be associated with metastatic transformation.

Soccer, too, is not without a long list of peculiar episodes, a number involving goalkeepers.

As a burgeoning institution, it isn't immediately clear what makes LocalGlobe unusual or peculiar, although a number of things do stand out.