He had become a known quantity for the wrong reason.
But we're swapping a known quantity for the unknown, which seems to me at best reckless, at worst foolish.
Wheat is the main crop, but potatoes and other vegetables are grown in quantity for the towns.
Although the fossil record is irregular in quality and quantity for the Early Cretaceous, it is obvious that dinosaurs continued their lengthy dominance of the land.
Minerals. Radium is to be found in all uranium ores; however only those that have been mined in sufficient quantity for the extraction will be here mentioned.
PAGE 21 Conservative Expectations Prominent conservatives say they are confident that President Bush will abandon his "stealth strategy" and choose a known quantity for the Supreme Court this time.
Shown in quantity for the first time in the United States, this collection from the former Portuguese colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea-Bissau was assembled by the Portuguese government, starting in the 1960's.
Cleveland's Kyrie Irving, although practically worshipped by diehard NBA fans, is still something of an unknown quantity for the general public, mostly due to that whole playing-in-Cleveland-thing.
When breathable air is available so freely and in such quantity, it would be redundant to demand that breathable air be freely provided to all, in sufficient quantity for the needs of all.
Although the Steelers are hardly the Men of Steel these days, they are in some ways an unknown quantity for the Jets, who have not faced them since 1992.
He could calculate their volumes, and, as appears from his taking the Egyptian seked, the horizontal distance associated with a vertical rise of one cubit, as the defining quantity for the pyramid's slope, he knew something about similar triangles.
