Sentence examples for read minus from inspiring English sources

This particular old chestnut, which I remember debating when I was at school, would cost millions to subsidise and I believe that our last national bank statement read: "Minus a trillion".

In the current version one may read "minus 3 plus 1" and may misunderstand.

There are ∼3.9 million ApeKI sites in the B73 reference genome and our sequencing approach had the potential to capture up to 77 bp on either side of each cut site (up to 81 bp per read minus the 4- to 8-bp barcode).

In town the bank thermometer read minus two and a harsh wind made it seem like the freezing pits of Hell.

The bank said its index of regional manufacturing activity was minus 7.1 in August, which was better than in July, when it read minus 12.9.

In Adventurers' Land – actually now an SSSI, a site of about 25 acres, between Wisbech and Peterborough – the sole contour is a statement of nothing: 0. A spot height reads minus 1.

If they do not, the score line in 2006 may read BBC: minus 1, government: minus 1, citizens: minus 2, Mr Murdoch: 4. This would be a dreadful mistake.

The three bowling points gained for dismissing Durham for 310 could be lost because their over-rate reads minus three and, unless they can make Durham bat again, they are unlikely to have much opportunity to claw it back.

This morning we read "Harry Potter, Minus a Certain Flavour," Peter H. Gleick's July 10 Op-Ed article about adapting the language of Harry Potter from English to American.

'Miles' is just the current odometer reading minus the previous odometer (i.e. "=$B3-$B3-$B2

It's a series of vignettes from Grosz's clinical practice that read like mini detective stories.