huge quantity

collocation in English

meaningsofhugeandquantity

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huge
adjective
uk
/hjuːdʒ/us
/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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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 ofhugeandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Conversely, some errors and inaccuracies are difficult to avoid, given thehugequantityof information handled.
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Ahugequantityof glass has to be melted.
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I have received ahugequantityof correspondence on all aspects of the millennium experience.
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There is ahugequantityof replacement expenditure in all these areas.
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They extract ahugequantityof bromine, and the quantity is always increasing.
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It resulted in the capture of valuable objectives and ahugequantityof prisoners and ammunition.
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Three-quarters of thathugequantityof fuel was wasted and only a quarter was productively employed.
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Can she account for thehugequantityof high-class chocolate in the hands of these people?
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Its report highlighted thehugequantityand wide variety of products which are carried on the river.
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The second relates to thehugequantityof goods sold by that institution and by many similar charities.
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It is evident that there is an undeniablyhugequantityof coal to the seaward side of the fault.
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That does not, however, require harmonisation involving uniform rules governing the way in which thishugequantityof data is collected.
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That means that during that time we have lost ahugequantityof passenger coaches which in normal times would have been serving the public.
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To justify the enormous sums—thousands of pounds—paid by stalkers for one or two days of stalking, one must have ahugequantityof deer.
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Even then the loss would be less than continuing to stock thishugequantityof coal with the inevitable depreciation due to deterioration.
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It means that of all thehugequantityof coal, and to a lesser extent oil, used by the industry, three-quarters was wasted.
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Each of these platforms requires ahugequantityof steel—it has been said as much as for a large liner.
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How does all this tie in with thehugequantityof taxpayers' money which, rightly or wrongly, is going to several formidable international corporations?
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It would, of course, have an effect on the plant hire industry and naturally there would be ahugequantityof building materials required.
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During its operation ahugequantityof industrial waste, including toxic waste, had been deposited there.
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The service requirements called for ahugequantityof new stock in a limited time frame.
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Pre-adaptation may occur because a natural population carries ahugequantityof genetic variability.
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There is also ahugequantityof systems being built in booster display.
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Mineral deposits of great variety are found in the subcontinent inhugequantity.
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We are quite unable to answer a question which requests ahugequantityof information broken down into considerable detail over a long period of years.
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