Sentence examples of "en somme" in French

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Tatoeba : Parce qu'une langue est bien davantage que la somme de ses mots. Tatoeba: Because a language is more than the sum of its words.
Il essaya en vain de leur emprunter une grosse somme d'argent. He tried to borrow a large sum of money from them in vain.
Le tout est plus que la somme de ses parties. The whole is more than the sum of its parts.
Elle avait seulement une petite somme d'argent. She had only a small sum of money.
Il a soudoyé cet homme politique avec une grosse somme d'argent. He bribed that politician with a great deal of money.
Tout nombre pair est la somme de deux nombres premiers. Every even number is the sum of two primes.
Une empreinte carbone est la somme de pollution au dioxyde de carbone que nous produisons par nos activités. Certaines personnes essaient de réduire leur empreinte carbone parce qu'elles sont inquiètes du changement climatique. A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide pollution that we produce as a result of our activities. Some people try to reduce their carbon footprint because they are concerned about climate change.
J'aimerais diminuer de manière drastique la somme de temps que ça me prend de nettoyer la maison. I would like to drastically decrease the amount of time it takes me to clean the house.
M. Jones m'a réprimandé pour avoir piqué un petit somme en classe. Mr Jones reprimanded me for taking a spot of shut-eye during class.
Le théorème de Pythagore dit que dans un triangle rectangle le carré de l'hypoténuse est égal à la somme des carrés des deux autres cotés. Pythagoras' theorem says that the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.
Axiome de Cole : La somme de l’intelligence répartie sur la planète est une constante ; la population augmente. Cole's Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the population is growing.
La somme de deux plus trois plus quatre est neuf. The sum of two plus three plus four is nine.
Une importante somme d'argent est nécessaire pour voyager. A lot of funds are necessary to travel.
Notre siècle a vu un accroissement notable de la somme des connaissances. Our century has seen a notable increase of knowledge.
La somme de ces chiffres ne colle pas. These figures don't add up.
Un module est dit semi-simple s'il est somme de sous-modules simples. A module is said to be semisimple if it is the sum of simple submodules.
Il a essayé, en vain, de leur emprunter une grosse somme d'argent. He tried, in vain, to borrow a large sum of money from them.
Ses dettes s'élèvent à une somme considérable. His debts amount to a considerable sum.
Le tout vaut plus que la somme de ses parties. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Il a essayé de récupérer son manque de sommeil en faisant un somme. He tried to make up for his lack of sleep by taking a nap.
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