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How to use the word MINUS in a Sentence? Page #2

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It's about minus 20 degrees today and not much breeze, so we thought the igloo would be a good place to do it.

– Adam McLaughlin

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Should the British opt for a withdrawal from the EU, then we cannot continue just doing business as usual with 28 minus one the next day.

– German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

I have a D-minus voting record from the NRA, i support what President Obama is doing in terms of trying to close the gun show loopholes.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If you get the cuts, then it would be minus 2 million from those guys, but plus 1 million from Iran, i don't think that flies.

– Michael Wittner at Societe Generale

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Our read on the new issuance calendar in Q1 is plus or minus US$60bn of leveraged loans for M&A, which is fairly robust, there’s plenty of capital around, which is the underlying theme.

– Richard Kurth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We believe the trend will be toward higher quality credits, our read on the new issuance calendar in Q1 is plus or minus US$60bn of leveraged loans for M&A, which is fairly robust.

– Richard Kurth

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Essentially, it is an extremely efficient heat exchanging system, which will effectively mount on the front of our new engine design and very efficiently cool incoming air of a very high temperature of about a thousand degrees C [Centigrade], to minus 150 degrees C in a fraction of a second; approximately one-hundredth of a second.

– Simon Hanks

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

That's when I had to tell him the truth, i had a.6 GPA( a barely passing D-minus grade point average) at the time. He said,' Son, you have potential.' But that changed me. That was the first time, outside of people who are supposed to support me, anyone saw that I had potential.

– Rashad Jennings

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

What I saw along the road was very worrying. Soon it can be minus 20-30 degrees. I don't want to see people out walking or on bikes, with children, at these temperatures.

– Rune Rafaelsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's amazing because you provide a lot of employment, I think plus or minus, our sisal farms are providing thousands of jobs, and we create housing for them, we give them health benefits, we give education support to them, so it's amazing, it's good business.

– Mohammed Dewji

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I don’t take children in my practice unless I know that they want to be there, tutoring is not for the kids who are getting an A-minus, but their parents want them to get As. (It’s for) the kid who’s feeling frustrated that they’re not meeting their potential. That’s the kid who benefits most from tutoring.

– Kathy Essig

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The only minus is the external political uncertainty, but money is more important for companies than this consideration.

– Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are prepared to pay market prices ... $250 minus $30 is a price that would be seen positively by our consumers.

– Ukrainian Energy Minister

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I played very good today, very solid, and when I missed the green I made some great up and downs, i missed a few short putts for birdies but minus three is a nice start.

– Broch Larsen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

You Google my name and it lights up the screen. I'm 20 years minus a resume, so it's hard.

– Seth Penalver

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Right now it’s summer, we can put them in tents and they can hold out, but what are we going to do with women, children, the elderly, the sick ... when it’s minus 20?

– Aleksandar Vulin

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We're dropping below zero and wind chills will be dropping to 20 below and maybe minus-25 by morning, people should take it seriously. It is the coldest in Massachusetts in many years.

– National Weather Service

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

There are a half a dozen candidates, plus or minus a little bit, that I would put their names in a hat and draw one out and be really happy as a replacement to the president we have today.

– Steve King

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It will be going into service plus or minus April 1.

– Guy Jarvis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The political calculation has to be that this is more of a plus for a candidate for president than a minus.

– David Yepsen

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Will minus intellect constitutes vulgarity.

– Arthur Schopenhauer

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10 years ago

With me: one minus one = one; with you: it’s zero. Here lies the only difference.

– Dejan Stojanovic

added by anonymous
11 years ago

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.

– John Stuart Mill

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13 years ago

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

– Winnie the Pooh

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13 years ago

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