volume

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01. Could you please turn the [volume] down on the television?
02. Our sales [volume] has increased significantly since last year.
03. The [volume] of traffic in this area has increased to the point where officials are considering enlarging the bridge.
04. Please turn down the [volume] on the stereo; I'm trying to study.
05. My mom always watches the television at full [volume] because she is somewhat hard of hearing.
06. The [volume] of sales has increased substantially since we started advertising on television.
07. At the health fair, this guy was using a device to measure the [volume] of air you were able to take in with a single deep breath.
08. William Ellery Channing once observed that every man is a [volume] if you know how to read him.
09. An ostrich egg is equal in [volume] to 24 chicken eggs.
10. Studies show that most landfilled trash retains its original weight, [volume], and form for 40 years.
11. Fresh apples float because 25 percent of their [volume] is air.
12. In the early fifteenth century, scholars in China compiled an encyclopedia consisting of 11,095 [volumes].
13. The big bang which created the universe filled the entire [volume] of the universe from the first moment.
14. It took three years of constant printing to complete Johann Gutenberg's famous Bible, which appeared in 1455 in two [volumes], and had 1,284 pages.
15. The world's most popular soft drink by [volume] sales is Coca-Cola.
16. The San Diego freeway in California has the heaviest [volume] of traffic in the world.
17. The great variation in water [volume] in Iran's rivers poses a major problem for the people living there.
18. By [volume], Lake Tanganyika is the third largest freshwater lake in the world.
19. The first [volume] of the Oxford English Dictionary was published in 1884.
20. Liquids differ from solids in that both have a definite [volume], but liquids do not have a definite shape.
21. Gases assume the shape and [volume] of the containers in which they are found.
22. The landscape of our planet is greatly modified by the tremendous [volume] of water circulating on its surface.
23. For further information, see the article in the association journal, pp. 24-28, [vol.] 4/2001.

Grammatical examples in English. 2013.

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