Meanings of adult person in English

The baby needs water as much as any adult person.

Amount.-Anadult person will take one to four pints.

At the end of perhaps a minute it was the size and shape of an adult person.

Every adult person had a more or less definite idea that there were in existence immoral houses.

A standard candle when burning vitiates the air in a room almost as much as an adult person.

He forbade any more excursions away from the camp after that unless the excursionists took some adult person with them.

In an adult person in a normal or healthy condition, no sensible increase or decrease of weight occurs from day to day.

The quantity of oxygen removed from the air by the breathing of an adult person at rest amounts daily to about 18 cubic feet.

There was a small gap in the fence, two poles between which no adult person could climb, but I could smell Geoffrey-he'dsqueezed through here.

In general the associational capacity of an adult person may be taken to be from 80 per cent to 90 per cent.

It concluded that every adult person would lose roughly R2,000 because a ratings downgrade would mean that the banks themselves would face higher refinancing costs.

To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature.

After heart disease, stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide in adult persons.

The bodies of the old and the young cool more quickly than those of adult persons.

The words "North" and "South" had a habit of recurring in the conversation of adult persons.

The regulations can require adult persons to remain in their homes and to keep their children with them there.