prodigious amount

collocation in English

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prodigious
adjective
uk
/prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/us
/prəˈdɪdʒ.əs/
extremely great in ability, amount, ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk
/əˈmaʊnt/us
/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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(Definition ofprodigiousandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The other is that it involves the mostprodigiousamountof form filling.
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It is clear from a reading of the report that aprodigiousamountof work has gone into it.
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They frequently remarked on its accuracy and the swiftness of its target acquisitionand especially theprodigiousamountof artillery ammunition expended.
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Moreover, because of her design, the ship could carry aprodigiousamountof cargo.
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In addition to emotional excess, the poet glorifies in the prodigious amounts of wealth and time squandered for the sake of wine.
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Directors spent prodigious amounts of money to meet material costs for productions of both genres, expenditures for ballet-pantomimes sometimes even exceeding those of particular operas in a given season.
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We are spending prodigious amounts of money, quite rightly, on new towns and slum clearance.
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They take up a vast amount of precious time and drink prodigious amounts of coffee.
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Bark was in especially high demand for local tanneries that produced prodigious amounts of leather.
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It appears to have crash-landed on the planet millions of years ago (precipitating a mass extinction) and is putting out prodigious amounts of radiation.
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Small insectivorous mammals eat prodigious amounts for their size.
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His theoretical results were the product of prodigious amounts of work on the data of language, in which the economy of description was a major criterion.
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When lit, prodigious amounts of fuel are burnt in the afterburner, raising the temperature of exhaust gases by a significant degree, resulting in a higher exhaust velocity/engine specific thrust.
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