staggering amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofstaggeringandamount
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staggering
adjective
uk/ˈstæɡ.ər.ɪŋ/us/ˈstæɡ.ɚ.ɪŋ/
very shocking ...
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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 ofstaggeringandamountfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This book covers astaggeringamountof ground with clarity and precision.
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Even if that figure is exaggerated - even if it is half what they say - it is still astaggeringamountof money.
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I can quite understand that £100,000,000 seems astaggeringamountto spend for such a purpose; but these amounts are all relative.
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Astaggeringamountis being spent on defence.
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What surprised me was the sheer cost of it and thestaggeringamountthat now has to be paid even for quite short journeys.
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That is astaggeringamountand something must be done about it.
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That made astaggeringamountof over £13 million in a year being given for housing subsidies for the private landlord.
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Despite that, there is still astaggeringamountremaining to be done.
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It was astaggeringamount—something which could not be carried in an aeroplane or in anything movable except a ship.
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That is astaggeringamountfor any student to go into the world with.
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That amounts to thestaggeringamountof £13,000,000 annually spent on this beautification.
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The numbers of people claiming for ordinary board and lodging have risen by the moststaggeringamount.
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That is astaggeringamountfor elderly people to have to find.
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Whatever the true number, it is astaggeringamount.
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They inherited a shocking, an appalling, situation, and have done astaggeringamountsince vesting date.
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This is astaggeringamountand gives some idea of what is involved in the uneconomic use of coal by the electricity boards.
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As estimates are normally wrong, that figures is likely to be £20 million—astaggeringamount.
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That results in astaggeringamountof water, and it led to the great problems that we have seen.
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Astaggeringamountof transactions will pass through our major hospitals.
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That is astaggeringamount, and were it to happen anywhere else, it would be a national scandal.
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