Sentence examples for written usage from inspiring English sources

A search on the Corpus of Contemporary American English finds preventive beating preventative by a ratio of about 6 to 1 in current written usage, across both academic and nonacademic texts.

But Mr. Popik and Mr. Cohen found its earliest written usage in 1921, in a horse-racing column by John J. Fitz Gerald of The New York Morning Telegraph, who said he heard it from New Orleans stable hands as a reference to the big money racing tracks.

After a steady increase in written usage between 1980 and 2000, "couch potato" peaked just after the millennium and then began to fall sharply.

An early written usage of the word "stekys" comes from a 15th-century cookbook, and makes reference to both beef or venison steaks.

You are given 45 minutes to complete the 75 questions in the English section, which focuses on standard writing usage and rhetorical skills.

After we reported on 9 June 2010 that a convicted murderer "successfully appealed the sentence", a despairing reader wrote: "This usage seems to be occurring more and more, sometimes even in headlines.

The second short-coming is overcome by the design of the buffer replacement algorithm that automatically determines which page to evict from buffer based on a cost model that minimizes the expected read and write energy usage.

Using the classification technique for context data from Section 3.2.1, the following information on user behavior was extracted and mapped: number and frequency of read and write permission usage and amount of transferred data (activity) for each account (individuality) per day (time) and the corresponding IP address (location).

It also has the manual's first chapter on grammar and usage, written by Bryan A. Garner, with instructions on whether it is all right to use "and" and "but" at the beginning of a sentence.

The New Yorker, March 15 , 1941P. 60 "Etiquette For Bachelors", a chapter from "The Cyclopedia of Social Usage," written in 1913 by Helen L. Roberts.

By E. J. Kahn The New Yorker, March 15 , 1941P. 60 "Etiquette For Bachelors", a chapter from "The Cyclopedia of Social Usage," written in 1913 by Helen L. Roberts.