Get to know Florey better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like diagnostician or pathologist.
Florey in a sentence
Florey meaning
- A surname.
- A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Howard Florey.
- An unincorporated community in Andrews County, Texas, United States, named after rancher A. J. Florey.
Synonyms of Florey
Using Florey
- The main meaning on this page is: A surname. | A suburb of Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, named after Howard Florey. | An unincorporated community in Andrews County, Texas, United States, named after rancher A. J. Florey.
- Useful related words include: howard florey, diagnostician, pathologist.
- In the example corpus, florey often appears in combinations such as: florey and, florey was, howard florey.
Context around Florey
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 10 start, 8 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Florey
- In this selection, "florey" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 27.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, howard, revived, joseph, institute, credited and warned stand out and add context to how "florey" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and howard florey shared the and attorney kenneth florey. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "florey" sits close to words such as aare, aarti and abl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with florey
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
As this was during the Second World War, Florey sought USA Government involvement. (13 words)
Florey and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Fleming for their work. (15 words)
Florey was Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1965 until his death in 1968. (15 words)
Florey had not patented penicillin, having been advised by Sir Henry Dale that doing so would be unethical. citation Penicillin is actively excreted, and about 80% of a penicillin dose is cleared from the body within three to four hours of administration. (42 words)
Florey's research team investigated the large-scale production of the mould and efficient extraction of the active ingredient, succeeding to the point where, by 1945, penicillin production was an industrial process for the Allies in World War II. (39 words)
Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U.S. and British governments. (38 words)
No one expected the Wolfpack to beat DePaul Prep in the sectional semi, so why couldn’t Daniel Florey and Kolby Giles pulled off another upset against Fenwick? (28 words)
Example sentences (20)
Florey credited Dubos with pioneering the approach of deliberately and systematically searching for antibacterial compounds, which had led to the discovery of gramicidin and had revived Florey's research in penicillin.
His father, Joseph Florey, was an English immigrant, and his mother Bertha Mary Florey was a third-generation Australian.
But Florey warned that the legislation could be overturned by the courts, and the township would still be vulnerable.
He is set to face the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday, hours after being found by police in the middle of the night on Florey Drive in Macgregor.
The township board, however, has held back from levying taxes for the mental health board, following the advice of its attorney, Kenneth Florey.
Among his bigger donations have been $3 million to the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, $5 million to the Florey Institute, $12.5 million to Victoria University and $US10 million to the New York Philharmonic.
No one expected the Wolfpack to beat DePaul Prep in the sectional semi, so why couldn’t Daniel Florey and Kolby Giles pulled off another upset against Fenwick?
The Tournament was organized by committee members Kim Barrows, Rick Florey, Jeff Haudenschield, Chris Kelly, Kathy Nelson, Pat Staples, Patti Thomas, John Walker and Maria Wilson, Executive Director of the Waverly Community House.
As this was during the Second World War, Florey sought USA Government involvement.
Fleming finally abandoned penicillin, and not long after he did, Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain at the Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford took up researching and mass-producing it, with funds from the U.S. and British governments.
Fleming was modest about his part in the development of penicillin, describing his fame as the "Fleming Myth" and he praised Florey and Chain for transforming the laboratory curiosity into a practical drug.
Florey and Chain shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Fleming for their work.
Florey had not patented penicillin, having been advised by Sir Henry Dale that doing so would be unethical. citation Penicillin is actively excreted, and about 80% of a penicillin dose is cleared from the body within three to four hours of administration.
Florey's research team investigated the large-scale production of the mould and efficient extraction of the active ingredient, succeeding to the point where, by 1945, penicillin production was an industrial process for the Allies in World War II.
Florey was Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1965 until his death in 1968.
For their successful development of penicillin, which Fleming had accidentally discovered but could not develop himself, as a therapeutic drug, Ernst Chain and Howard Florey shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Fleming.
However, Florey said that the project was originally driven by scientific interests, and that the medicinal discovery was a bonus: People sometimes think that I and the others worked on penicillin because we were interested in suffering humanity.
In 1941, Florey and Heatley travelled to the US in order to interest pharmaceutical companies in producing the drug and inform them about their process.
In 2012, he received the Kenneth B. Myer Award from the Florey Institute of Neuroscience in Melbourne, Australia.
It was Florey and his team who actually made a useful and effective drug out of penicillin, after the task had been abandoned as too difficult.
Common combinations with florey
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: