overwhelming amount

collocation in English

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overwhelming
adjective
uk
/ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/us
/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwel.mɪŋ/
difficult to ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk
/əˈmaʊnt/us
/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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Theoverwhelmingamountof decontextualized data, changes in their work routines, and redistribution of clinical tasks all may contribute to errors.
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It is, finally, the coherence that is imposed on an almostoverwhelmingamountof material that is the book's greatest virtue.
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Anoverwhelmingamountof research during the last two decades has accumulated evidence for this hypothesis in a variety of domains of language processing.
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In that work, theoverwhelmingamountof my time was spent in resolving, not creating, conflict.
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It is the idea that tariffs will lead to anoverwhelmingamountof lobbying and logrolling, corruption, and the like.
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Theoverwhelmingamountof public investment directly means orders for the private sector.
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I have no doubt that there may be some bad debts, but we are confident that theoverwhelmingamountof the money will be collected.
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The fact must surely emerge that anoverwhelmingamountof all these things will have disappeared before the end of the period of the loan.
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I agree that it is wrong the employers should possess such anoverwhelmingamountof bargaining power.
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That is hardly surprising because theoverwhelmingamountof data, including sensitive data, is held manually.
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I said that my information was that it was anoverwhelmingamount.
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Therefore, there is anoverwhelmingamountof evidence for the millesimal system.
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It is nonsense to pretend that thatoverwhelmingamountof property crime can be stopped only by the police and courts.
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We may ask ourselves who carries out theoverwhelmingamountof recycling, and the answer would be the local authorities.
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In this age two new factors have emerged—the increasing and worldwide interest in this historic place and theoverwhelmingamountof traffic which daily pounds its way through.
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First of all, they must show that there is anoverwhelmingamountof unemployment in the district.
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Anoverwhelmingamountof her aspiring students have become professional actors appearing on stage, television and motion pictures.
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Ten songs were originally planned for this album, but due to theoverwhelmingamountof votes, fifteen tracks were recorded instead.
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Although he pleaded not guilty at the trial, he was convicted on all counts and sentenced to death due to anoverwhelmingamountof evidence.
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This is difficult because of theoverwhelmingamountof information involved, and because of incommensurability of specialized languages in each field of expertise.
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