sheer quantity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsheerandquantity
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sheer
adjective
uk/ʃɪər/us/ʃɪr/
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; ...
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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 ofsheerandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We are certainly in a precarious situation with thesheerquantityof material that requires attention.
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That is not bad insheerquantity.
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Many older people are unhappy about thesheerquantityof medicines they are required to take daily.
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Increasingly, thesheerquantityof print publications made it impossible for censors to monitor the press properly.
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Thesheerquantityof work on autonomy published since the turn of century calls for a selective approach.
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The material consideration is thesheerquantityof violent depictions.
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Evidently, thesheerquantityof linguistic forms modelled by the adult is less critical than the context in which they are modelled.
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Much of thesheerquantityof these expressions can be understood in terms of a basic contrast between equilibrium and disequilibrium.
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Thesheerquantityof dung might be staggering in urban areas in an era dominated by horse transport, cowsheds, minor piggeries, middens and cesspits.
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Thesheerquantityof volumes has coagulated the categorisation and locational systems, convoluted the access and retrieval procedures and converted security and preservation into paranoia.
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In terms ofsheerquantity, the literature on autonomy published since 2000 exceeds the literature published over the previous 25 years.
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I must take account of the quality of representations as well as thesheerquantity.
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Thesheerquantityof casework that individuals are supposed to deal with has been mentioned.
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In that report he pointed to thesheerquantityof complaints.
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He identifies thatsheerquantitywith overall freedom, and the non-specific value is assumed to be a (weakly monotonic) function of the levels of overall freedom.
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Because of thesheerquantityof cash sloshing around the country, £100 million is lost to fraud.
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Their only measure of success is thesheerquantityof other people's money that they seek to squander.
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One of them is that it is not justsheerquantityof plant and machinery which is the only factor.
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The first lies in thesheerquantityof material required; mention has been made of the figure of 10% of the radius for the thickness of a semicircular barrel.
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An important consideration in our mind is the fact that the problem ofsheerquantityhas begun to disappear, if it has not already disappeared.
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And when we are talking of strengthening teacher supply we must think not only ofsheerquantitybut also of improving quality.
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It is not thesheerquantityof investment in industry that matters but the use of that investment in improving the position of industry.
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