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Example sentences for "enormous amount"

  • This tar sand is very strongly in evidence along the river, and an enormous amount of tar has actually gone to waste, as it were—floated out and hardened there.

  • In the valley of the Saskatchewan there are large areas of rich soil formed principally by the river itself, which has brought down an enormous amount of silt from the upper part of its valley.

  • There is, he stated, an enormous amount of sandstone there impregnated with hard thick petroleum of tar.

  • This is perfectly well known to unscrupulous butter dealers, and an enormous amount of adulteration is known to be practised.

  • These were due to an enormous amount of exceedingly fine dust blown to a great height by that terrific explosion, and then universally diffused by the high atmospheric currents.

  • Although Tytler had the precedence by a few days still his attempts and partial success were all but unknown; whereas Lunardi's experiments excited an enormous amount of enthusiasm in London.

  • A royal commission was appointed in February 1901, with Lord Kelvin as chairman, to inquire into the matter, and an enormous amount of attention was naturally given to it by chemists and medical men.

  • Naturally there was great energy expended in detecting offences for which fines were imposed, and the result was an enormous amount of correspondence and bitter recrimination between offices.

  • Many of my readers will doubtless recall some of those upstairs offices in big cities, which do an enormous amount of work, especially in the afternoon, the approach being a single staircase just broad enough for one person to ascend.

  • From being merely an agency for the conveyance and distribution of letters and light articles, the Post Office has gradually undertaken an enormous amount of what may be called non-postal work.

  • An enormous amount is used in the manufacture of jewelry, most of which is used over and over again.

  • In Europe and Canada an enormous amount of slow freight is transported by their use; in China they are the most important means of internal traffic.

  • The freighter, broad in beam and capacious, is built to carry an enormous amount of freight at a moderate speed.

  • In addition to the immense amount of money involved, this specialized industry required an enormous amount of experiment, as it called for the development of an entirely new art.

  • Of course the raid, as it was called, gave the Women's Social and Political Union an enormous amount of publicity, on the whole, favourable publicity.

  • Our by-election work was such a new thing in English politics that we attracted an enormous amount of attention wherever we went.

  • In the first month of guerilla warfare an enormous amount of property was damaged and destroyed.

  • Every engine and truck was used to its fullest capacity, and an enormous amount of time was saved by the abolition of passing stations for some ninety miles of the line's length.

  • An enormous amount of labour was devoted to the main road.

  • The roadmakers had done an enormous amount of navvy work on the track between Foka and Tahta.

  • That an enormous amount of unfair dealing does exist there can be no possible doubt, but in this matter a foreigner is likely to be unduly severe.

  • An enormous amount in securities had been paid for good will, the value of which was, at best, a matter of personal opinion.

  • There is an enormous amount of ore in this region, however, which runs less than 40 per cent.

  • Wind and water have done an enormous amount of work sorting out the soil in moraines and, leaving the boulders behind, this soil was scattered and sifted far and wide to feed the hungry plant-life.

  • Blanca is a mountain with an enormous amount of material in it,--enough for a score of sizable peaks.

  • And I'll give up the places where I clean for a few weeks, that will do me an enormous amount of good.

  • They had an enormous amount to say to each other--there was nothing, nothing whatever that disturbed them.

  • None of this little circle was married at the time, its various members were seldom apart, and they extracted an enormous amount of fun out of life.

  • Savage produced a play by Jesse Lynch Williams and my brother was asked to assist at rehearsals, a pastime in which he found an enormous amount of pleasure.

  • But while Richard's success was attained in a remarkably short space of time and at an extremely early age, it was not accomplished without an enormous amount of hard work and considerable privation.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    and all; are used; carats fine; dark room; enormous amount; enormous expense; enormous number; enormous numbers; enormous quantities; enormous quantity; enormous size; equal justice; foreign states; human justice; kilowatt hours; little panel; only natural; other members; other ruins; peasant life; ruling elders; seven ounces; unlimited power; was come; wild ducks; with all