bis aus den wenigen Körnern einer Saatbank soviel übrig bleiben

English translation: before the few kernels in a seed bank produce enough

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German term or phrase:	bis aus den wenigen Körnern einer Saatbank soviel übrig bleiben
English translation:	before the few kernels in a seed bank produce enough
Entered by:	Brie Vernier

10:46 Sep 28, 2005

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German term or phrase: bis aus den wenigen Körnern einer Saatbank soviel übrig bleiben

Je weniger Erbgut des Weizens im Dinkel drin ist, um so verträglicher ist es für Allergiker. Bis aus den wenigen Körnern einer Saatbank soviel übrig bleiben, dass das Saatgut für ein hektargroßes Feld reicht, vergehen Jahre.

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johnduke

(It takes years) before the few kernels in a seed bank produce enough

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is how I'd put it ...

On another note, if you'd change your browser's character coding (in the View menu) to something Western, we'd be able to read your umlauts better.

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Brie Vernier
Germany
Local time: 11:14

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Thanks to you both and sorry for the garbled characters - it's a Mozilla quirk.
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(It takes years) before the few kernels in a seed bank produce enough

Brie Vernier

(It takes years) before enough of the few seeds in a seed bank remain / are left

Woodstock (X)

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bis aus den wenigen Körnern einer Saatbank soviel übrig bleiben

(It takes years) before the few kernels in a seed bank produce enough

Explanation:
is how I'd put it ...

On another note, if you'd change your browser's character coding (in the View menu) to something Western, we'd be able to read your umlauts better.

Brie Vernier
Germany
Local time: 11:14
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 34

Grading comment

Thanks to you both and sorry for the garbled characters - it's a Mozilla quirk.

1 hr confidence:

bis aus den wenigen Körnern einer Saatbank soviel übrig bleiben (It takes years) before enough of the few seeds in a seed bank remain / are left

Explanation:
I would say this reflects the meaning accurately. Remain / are left are interchangeable in this context.

Woodstock (X)
Germany
Local time: 11:14
Works in field
Native speaker of:

English,

German
PRO pts in category: 8

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