vast quantity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvastandquantity
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vast
adjective
uk/vɑːst/us/væst/
extremely ...
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quantity
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈkwɒn.tə.ti/us/ˈkwɑːn.t̬ə.t̬i/
the amount or number of something, especially that can ...
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(Definition ofvastandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is not avastquantity.
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She brought me avastquantityof literature.
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It does not matter what thatvastquantityis.
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Such a broad and inclusive survey revealed avastquantityof visual imagery that is rarely consulted or considered by the academic community.
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The decisions that the editors have to make in selecting the most interesting out of avastquantityof sources is of course always a difficult one.
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And this repertory of occasional music was but part of thevastquantityof printed ephemera from the period, including thousands of poems, sermons and orations.
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Roughly 12,000 cars were exported to the colonies in 1937 along with avastquantityof parts, with a combined value of over half a billion lire.
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Obviously, engineering such things will require avastquantityof information, on an order of magnitude certainly unachievable and also likely inconceivable to most of us.
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Apparently there are only two people who have been subjected to thisvastquantityof paper.
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We have got condemnation of avastquantityof contraband goods.
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Last year alone thatvastquantityof liquor was put on the market.
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The problem will be thevastquantityof documents which may be marginally material.
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Avastquantityis manufactured in this country, and we are net exporters of ammonium sulphate.
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It buys avastquantityof manufactures and food essential to this country.
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There is avastquantityof undigested and ill-digestible legislation.
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There is avastquantityof work undone in this country the necessity for which is urgent.
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It is not as if avastquantityof taxpayers' money is being paid out disproportionately to the benefit derived.
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The report summarised thevastquantityof evidence and it certainly illustrates the depth of this inquiry.
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Avastquantityof timber is now carried on the roads which could well be carried upon the railways.
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The industry has existed for a great many years and has done avastquantityof work.
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Obviously, the inspectors had avastquantityof documents which they saw or photo-copied in preparing their report.
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To remove thisvastquantityof gas, the total amount of fresh air circulated is 350,000 cubic feet per minute.
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That is where avastquantityof shipping passes every day, bringing us oil and raw materials on which we are totally dependent.
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There is avastquantitywhich could not be sold all at once, even from the point of view of putting it on the market.
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