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Example sentences for "enormous quantities"

  • Enormous quantities of salt are thus cheaply manufactured through wind, tide and sun power directed by the cheapest human labor.

  • Besides these ultimate uses the rice straw is extensively employed in the manufacture of articles used in enormous quantities.

  • We practice burning straw and corn stalks in enormous quantities, to get them easily out of the way, thus scattering on the winds valuable plant food, thoughtlessly and lazily wasting where these people laboriously and religiously save.

  • Both ferments occur in enormous quantities in the soil, and seem to be influenced, so far as is at present known, by the same conditions.

  • The larvae of the Diptera are generally limbless maggots, gifted with a pair of jaws, and they are usually very voracious feeders, devouring decomposing animal or vegetable matter in enormous quantities.

  • They are the skeletons of protozoons, belonging to the class Rhizopoda, and they exist in enormous quantities on the beds of certain seas.

  • It is used in enormous quantities in the manufacture of sulphuric acid and potassium nitrate, and as a fertilizer.

  • It is an interesting fact that while hydrogen in the free state occurs only in traces on the earth, it occurs in enormous quantities in the gaseous matter surrounding the sun and certain other stars.

  • Enormous quantities of salt are therefore produced each year.

  • The deaths which have occurred from the use of enormous quantities of Morrison's pills are mainly ascribable to the gamboge contained in those medicines.

  • Large quantities of bromine are extracted from the mother liquor of carnallite, a double chloride of magnesium of potassium occurring in enormous quantities in a bed of clay in the neighbourhood of Stassfurt, near Magdeburg.

  • Water absorbs its own volume of this gas, and by pressure may be made to take up enormous quantities, forming carbonated or aerated water.

  • Already the grain production of England is far from sufficient for the wants of the population, so that, even when the harvest is exceptionally abundant, enormous quantities of wheat are imported from all quarters of the globe.

  • This equipment of artillery and its maintenance organization implies the flow from American industry of enormous quantities of repair parts and spare parts to keep the artillery in good condition.

  • Although purchased in enormous quantities, it cost the Government more than 41 cents a gallon.

  • These woods have not been much disturbed, and therefore give refuge to enormous quantities of game, among which the porco do mato, or pig of the woods, is common.

  • Enormous quantities of winter radishes are grown in autumn, for use and sale during the winter months.

  • Beets are produced in enormous quantities by market gardeners near all large cities, both under glass and in the open ground.

  • Market gardeners, who raise the most and best asparagus, depend mainly on enormous quantities of first-class stable manure; and this is probably the best fertilizer of all for this succulent and valuable vegetable.

  • The tremendous cleft through which the well-known Via Mala is carried receives, every year, from its own crumbling walls and from the Hinter Rhein and its mild tributaries, enormous quantities of rock, in blocks and boulders.

  • The city of Rome imported from Sicily, from Africa, and from the Levant, enormous quantities of grain for gratuitous distribution among the lower classes of the capital.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient tradition; burial place; business organization; constant voltage; enormous amount; enormous expense; enormous mass; enormous number; enormous numbers; enormous quantities; enormous quantity; enormous size; farm house; feet above the sea; first duty; further progress; good income; great calm; half degrees; hereby declared; honorable friend; march against; oval shape; pine needles; punished according; she has