NOUN | a daily ration | daily rations | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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Usage Examples English
- The daily ration of two-thirds of an ounce mixed in grog contained just about the minimum daily intake of 10 mg vitamin C.
- Many of his subjects were of domestic scenes, painted with an almost photographic detail, such as "The Laughing Parson" (1935) and "His Daily Ration" (1946).
- The daily ration of two-thirds of an ounce mixed in grog contained just about the minimum daily intake of 10 mg vitamin C.
- The daily ration consisted of a small amount of black bread, some soup, some margarine substitute, and some coffee substitute.
- On October 15, 2001, the United States announced a humanitarian daily ration for Afghanistan.
- Each crate contained 12 daily rations (each daily ration consisting of one Breakfast unit, one Dinner unit, and one Supper unit) for a total of 36 units per crate.
- In Marie de France's verse account at the close of the 12th century, the snake asks the farmer for a daily ration of milk and promises him enrichment.
- By the reign of Aurelian, the state had begun to distribute the "annona" as a daily ration of bread baked in state factories, and added olive oil, wine, and pork to the dole.
- After the October insurrection, levels of grain stock in Petrograd were so low that they were insufficient to supply the city with the daily ration of half a pound of bread for even one day.
- A daily ration of about 27 grams (1 Roman ounce) was allotted to the legionaries in addition to bread and farro soup.
- The famine was imposed on a previously well-nourished population and the official daily ration for the general adult population gradually decreased from 1800 calories in December 1943 to 1400 calories in October 1944 to below 1000 calories in the late November 1944.
- As longer voyages became more common, the storage of the sailors' substantial daily ration of water plus beer or wine became a problem.
- It was originally used as a derogatory word for sailors in the Royal Navy, because of the Royal Navy's practice since the beginning of the 19th century of adding lemon juice or lime juice to the sailors' daily ration of watered-down rum (known as grog), in order to prevent scurvy.
- Project Gaia is currently active in Awbarre refugee camp (formerly known as Teferi Ber) and Kebribeyah refugee camp, where all of the camp's approximately 1780 families have CleanCook stoves and a daily ration of ethanol, funded cooperatively by the UNHCR and the Gaia Association.
- The American military government, based on a minimum daily ration of 1,990 kilocalories (July 1948), The RAF was somewhat better prepared, since it had already moved some aircraft into the German area, and they expected to be able to supply about 400 tons a day.
- A soldier's daily ration was to consist of [...] of dry bread, [...] of butter or pork, [...] of peas, and [...] of beer.
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