He is that unexpected quantity: a devout Christian and multimillionaire City financier.
As it's such a small quantity a good liquidiser should do the trick.
When cooking for a crowd or in quantity, a kadhai of 14 inches or larger is just the thing.
As any astronomer will tell you, a star is a known quantity, a predictable brand of combustion.
After 16 years of Blair and Brown, and New versus old Labour, Miliband may well be a genuinely new and untested quantity – a pragmatic young progressive.
Bend It Like Beckham is a merrily known quantity, a safe bet – and if uncomplicated entertainment is what you are after, it scores.
He is already a known quantity — a 6-foot-8 behemoth apparently even bigger than his listed 250 pounds, with a better jump shot than ever.
But this year, he is doing it as a known quantity, a player whom the Giants are looking to as more than just a fleeting contributor.
Thus Murray entered the Open, his favorite tournament, as an unpredictable quantity, a notch below the three men considered favorites: Djokovic, Nadal and Roger Federer.
EDWAARD LIANG'S "DISTANT CRIES," presented by PETER BOAL & COMPANY in March, is a better-known quantity, a haunted duet for Mr. Boal and WENDY WHELAN, cast here as a restless ghost.
In a furious first round of the N.B.A. draft tonight, the Nets exchanged one first-round pick for three, hoping to fulfill with quantity a multitude of pressing needs.
