Below you will find example sentences with "parts per". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Parts Per in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: parts
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 14
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 26.2 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 5 start, 13 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "parts per" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 26.2 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as reported in parts per million ppm, 0 1 parts per million during, billion, soil and water stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with per cent, per share and per hour, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with parts per
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The schools tested for levels of CO2 above 1,500 parts per million. (13 words)
The data are reported in parts per million (ppm) for CO and parts per billion (ppb) for CH. (18 words)
Sulfur makes up 870 parts per million of seawater and about 1 part per billion of the atmosphere. (18 words)
The concentration of uranium in soil ranges from 0.7 to 11 parts per million (up to 15 parts per million in farmland soil due to use of phosphate fertilizers ), and its concentration in sea water is 3 parts per billion. (41 words)
Those new branches and stems were nourished by carbon dioxide that has increased in Earth’s atmosphere from 365 parts per million in the late ‘90s to 420 today — the highest level in the last million years or so. (39 words)
The new rules would limit them to just 4 parts per trillion, but the new report shows that many water systems in big cities have levels of the chemicals that already exceed that. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
The concentration of uranium in soil ranges from 0.7 to 11 parts per million (up to 15 parts per million in farmland soil due to use of phosphate fertilizers ), and its concentration in sea water is 3 parts per billion.
There are typically 5 parts per million of bromine in human blood, 7 parts per million of bromine in human bones, and 7 parts per million of bromine in human tissue.
The data are reported in parts per million (ppm) for CO and parts per billion (ppb) for CH.
The young shrimp start out in water with salinity of 35 to 40 parts per thousand; as they grow, the salinity is reduced to 6 to 15 parts per thousand.
According to the slides he presented, the salmon and rainbow trout tested came back with concentrations of 14 parts per billion, and walleye came back with 8 parts per billion.
Of the 23 wells tested in Deerfield Township, four were above 3 parts per million and none were above 10 parts per million.
The ozone layer contains less than 10 parts per million of ozone, while the average ozone concentration in Earth's atmosphere as a whole is about 0.3 parts per million.
There are only 5 parts per billion of tellurium in the earth's crust and 15 parts per billion of tellurium in seawater.
PVC cables can use calcium carbonate at loadings of up to 70 phr (parts per hundred parts of resin) to improve mechanical properties (tensile strength and elongation) and electrical properties (volume resistivity).
Results were reported in parts per million (ppm) and converted to percent (%), or grams per tonne (g/t) when applicable.
The study also found that 82 per cent higher risk of developing asthma was associated with each 10 parts per billion (ppb), or ppb increase in exposure to ozone at birth.
Sulfur makes up 870 parts per million of seawater and about 1 part per billion of the atmosphere.
Encouraging Soil Samples: Soil samples from a 2020 soil sampling program returned values ranging from 5 parts per billion (ppb) gold to 32 ppb.
However, on average, nitrous oxide levels sat at around 350 parts per million (ppm) - the work exposure limit is 100ppm.
Phosgene is considered safe at 0.1 parts per million during an eight-hour exposure, or 0.2 ppm for a 15-minute exposure.
The district seeks to mitigate any fixture found to have water lead levels at or above 5 parts per billion, documents show.
The maximum level of benzene allowed in a public drinking water system is 5 parts per billion, the news release said.
The new rules would limit them to just 4 parts per trillion, but the new report shows that many water systems in big cities have levels of the chemicals that already exceed that.
The schools tested for levels of CO2 above 1,500 parts per million.
Those new branches and stems were nourished by carbon dioxide that has increased in Earth’s atmosphere from 365 parts per million in the late ‘90s to 420 today — the highest level in the last million years or so.