Prior to "engraftment" patients may go for several weeks without appreciable numbers of white blood cells to help fight infection.

There were also smaller but appreciable numbers of Poles and Roma in the population.

"An appreciable number of directors have shifted to lower-cost films, allowing them to be satisfied with a more modest return."

However, our population does not grow by any appreciable number.

Here infinitesimals are expected to have the "same" properties as appreciable numbers.

There is no indication that any of them made an appreciable number of converts to wine.

By now the only males left in any appreciable number were children under eighteen and men over sixty.

An appreciable number of miscarriages depend upon conditions over which medical skill has no control.

An appreciable number of us have 'perfect pitch': we can identify a musical note exactly.

Infinitesimals to Leibniz were ideal quantities of a different type from appreciable numbers.