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01. The severity of an earthquake is [measured] using a device known as the Richter scale.
02. A close [measurement] of the room showed it to be larger than we had thought.
03. Sophie made a mistake when she [measured] Marly to shorten his pants.
04. There are marks all over one of our kitchen walls from where we have [measured] our children's height as they have grown over the years.
05. Hal's pet snake [measures] almost 5 feet long.
06. We need to do regular evaluations in order to [measure] our students' progress in English.
07. Chinese scientists recently began to [remeasure] Mount Everest for the first time in 20 years, checking theories that it is growing about a centimeter each year.
08. Many teachers feel that tests are not necessarily a valid [measure] of a student's progress.
09. William R. Alger once said that the wealth of a soul is [measured] by how much it can feel.
10. Zelda Fitzgerald once observed that nobody has ever [measured], not even poets, how much the heart can hold.
11. There is a Kenyan proverb which states that if you receive a gift, don't [measure] it.
12. Electrical current is [measured] in cycles.
13. One of the most commonly used [measures] of social inequality is occupational prestige.
14. In traditional African communities, cattle are considered a [measure] of wealth and prestige.
15. In Somalia, a family's status in the community is often [measured] by the number of camels it owns.
16. In 1793, France became the first country to use the metric system of weights and [measures].
17. The government needs to take [measures] to curb violent crime.
18. It is important that your [measurements] be precise when putting in an order for new curtains.
19. A mercury thermometer cannot [measure] temperatures lower than minus 38.8 degrees Celcius because the mercury freezes at that point.
20. The first standardized system of [measurement] was developed in Mesopotamia around 4,700 years ago.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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