This number is equal to the width of the stage minus one.

"I've got everything I could ever have hoped for, minus one dear friend and a father.

"Sometimes you want to make it minus the plus.

"In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

"This is the year minus one thousand," she said.

But one question still puzzles her: "My bond funds are all minus this year.

Therefore we should not here choose the formula minus one but plus one.

Zero equals nine thousand five hundred minus one tenth of N.

Thus the Giants went into the game minus one of their backfield stars and with a cloud hanging over another.

Paul Samuelson has quipped that economists can at best forecast minus one month.

Others accepted the move minus the fanfare.

The council adopted a resolution, proposed by Garrison to fund the full budget requests of the police minus one dollar.

In the case of lists, indices are the natural numbers from zero to the length of the list minus one.

The bitwise complement is equal to the two's complement of the value minus one.

"Launch minus one minute twelve seconds and we are go for launch.

Now, I think it's M minus one, I'll just check, yeah.

Because the insured and claimant are not the same entity, insurers cannot pay the claim minus the deductible.

"Infinity minus one," chattered the computer, "Improbability sum now complete."

"Zero minus one thousand relative feet," Grove announced.

Or would you have preferred to have him arrive here minus one of his legs or with only half a head?"

"Zero minus one minute," a voice said.

Thinking himself headed in a direction minus danger, he declined Silius's offer of an escort.

That means we cannot afford to enter the New Year minus one of the new consuls!

He reissued it minus the offending references.

No, half N minus one.

Minus has been one thing too long to be anything else.

Now I can never remember whether you need to put the minus in or not.

By what right does Minus get free of this job?

No other team in the league had more than a minus 17.

"I cannot think of anything where the university was a minus factor."

Have a guess first, what do you think ten to the minus one will come to?

"I can do the plus and the minus, but the division seems too hard to understand."

On the minus side, we found the service to be indifferent.

"You may have some new business in a few minuses."

So this is how he's going to play it, thinks Minus.

But here we will use the definition above, without the minus sign.

For one thing, knowing everyone in town is both a plus and a minus.

"What if you've never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?"

There's going to be a minus X left over there, and then you can add those up.

It's time by the minus one, which bit's on top?

Minus is talking to Dirk, the two of them finally alone.

For political purposes the war is all plus and no minus.

But his independence is also a minus: he has no political check.

On the minus side, no need to ask for a wake-up call in the morning.

On the minus side, the performance monitor took time to become familiar with.

The difference between a minus and a plus in the same grade is one point.

The character issue is not all a minus for Clinton."

I suspect, on this, he means a plus and not a minus.

Either way, in today's game, a minus 7 is impressive.

Negative numbers are usually written with a minus sign in front.

No other team in the league had more than a minus 17.

"I cannot think of anything where the university was a minus factor."

She had a minus two around it in her notes.

On the scale of one to ten, it was a minus two.

For one thing, knowing everyone in town is both a plus and a minus.

"What if you've never been very good at telling a plus from a minus?"

There's going to be a minus X left over there, and then you can add those up.

But his independence is also a minus: he has no political check.

The difference between a minus and a plus in the same grade is one point.

However, to make this to work out correctly a minus sign is needed.

"That would be a minus point for me," she said.

The character issue is not all a minus for Clinton."

I suspect, on this, he means a plus and not a minus.

Either way, in today's game, a minus 7 is impressive.

Negative numbers are usually written with a minus sign in front.

Depending on your point of view, that could be a plus or a minus.

Let's not argue whether that's a plus or a minus.

Asked to assess his performance, he shrugged and said, I was a minus 3.

Whether it's a plus or a minus it could be a loss of responsibility.

In 16 games, he has had a minus defensive rating just once.

But their being retarded would be a plus, not a minus.

And frankly, the way things stand, Kate is a minus.

"I thought this was more of a plus than a minus, in the long run.

Between you and me, though, in a lot of ways, it's a plus, not a minus.

Note that there is a minus sign in the first equation, but not the second.