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Example sentences for "considerable numbers"

  • Cysticerci occasionally occupy the brain of the pig in considerable numbers.

  • The only other animal which we saw in any number was a small fox: I suppose this animal preys on the mice and other small rodents, which, as long as there is the least vegetation, subsist in considerable numbers in very desert places.

  • Each landowner in the valley possesses a certain portion of hill-country, where his half-wild cattle, in considerable numbers, manage to find sufficient pasture.

  • On the higher parts of the island, considerable numbers of a shell, long thought to be a marine species occur imbedded in the soil.

  • There are some old Indian ruins in this neighbourhood, and I was shown one of the perforated stones, which Molina mentions as being found in many places in considerable numbers.

  • It winters on the coast of Australia, has occurred on the Andaman Islands, and in considerable numbers on the coast of Scinde.

  • Considerable numbers of west Asiatic birds migrate to the marshes of the Euphrates and winter there, while others pass into India and Burma.

  • Night now came on, and hid the enemy from view, and a short time afterwards their camp-fires blazed up, and we could see dark figures moving about in considerable numbers.

  • We slept in a skin-covered wigwam which they appropriated to our use, and the following morning started for the southward in search of buffalo, which were supposed to be in considerable numbers in that direction.

  • The common crow is found here in considerable numbers, but the sound of their voice and manner of croaking, is very different from those in Europe.

  • The former class of vases has been found in considerable numbers in the second palace, and also at Zakro and other sites.

  • Native imitations of the Mycenaean vases, which have been described as “sub-Mycenaean wares,” have been found in considerable numbers on most of the sites where the genuine Mycenaean ware exists.

  • Where these weeds flourish, there, for the most part, Goldfinches are to be met with in considerable numbers.

  • This pretty bird is of very local occurrence, being found in considerable numbers in several marshy districts where reeds abound, but in others being totally unknown.

  • We have seen them in considerable numbers in the breeding season near Fossdike Wash, in Lincolnshire.

  • They are very social, living in pairs in the breeding season, but even during that period will sometimes associate in considerable numbers.

  • They are often brought to Europe in considerable numbers, and are sometimes known under the name of "Birds of Paradise.

  • Schomburghk saw them sitting in considerable numbers on trees upon the banks of the Rio Takutu.

  • The priests, caciques, and upper classes doubtless lived in the stone houses, the remains of which lie buried in considerable numbers in the mounds.

  • Deer are secured in considerable numbers in the rutting season by imitating their call with a wooden whistle (fig.

  • They firmly believe that the clay images of the gods upon incense burners, at one time found in considerable numbers in forests which had been uncut since the days of their ancestors, live, walk about, and dance at certain seasons.

  • Notwithstanding this apparently friendly intercourse, the natives, who came on board in considerable numbers, stole whenever they had an opportunity.

  • On the 16th the promontory of Swartchuk was passed; and, later, icebergs were met with in considerable numbers, under one of which they were nearly swamped, the warning fragments only giving the ship time to cast off her icy moorings.

  • The aborigines of Borneo, or Pulo Kalamantan, still exist in the interior in considerable numbers; there are various tribes of them, speaking different dialects.

  • It is found in rocky places, and sometimes in considerable numbers, just at low-tide mark.

  • On the tops of the hills, and on the jutting points of the table lands bordering the valleys in which the earthworks are found, mounds occur in considerable numbers.

  • They may be much more extensively disseminated; but it is here only that they have been observed in considerable numbers.

  • Fur seal are killed in considerable numbers, and a few sea otter, from fifteen to twenty each season.

  • Trout are plentiful in most of them, and a small, very excellent salmon is caught in considerable numbers in several of the largest.

  • Trout are found in most of them, and a small, very excellent salmon is caught in considerable numbers in several of the largest.

  • They occur both in the alpine and subalpine regions in considerable numbers, and never fail to make telling features in the landscape.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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