sufficient quantity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsufficientandquantity
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sufficient
adjective
uk/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/us/səˈfɪʃ.ənt/
enough for a ...
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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 ofsufficientandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They were familiar with the product and demandedsufficientquantityto make deliveries worthwhile.
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Moreover, the peptides can be synthesised readily and insufficientquantityfor biological use.
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A ' ' quantum ' ', in a sense more general than but including the definition of physics, is a prescribed orsufficientquantity.
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Of importance is the fact that milk and egg together, and insufficientquantity, provide all essential proteins.
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Few were in industry, cotton and groundnuts no longer being produced insufficientquantityto provide raw materials.
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These are situations that guaranteesufficientquantityof language and proper involvement in the communicative functions of language.
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Is asufficientquantitybeing imported?
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Fewer men were required to produce asufficientquantityof steel than had been required previously to produce asufficientquantityof iron.
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Even if defendant's conduct would otherwise be held to be illegal, defendant will be exonerated if the challenged conduct yields asufficientquantityof efficiency.
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There must, in addition to a right to our labour, be a right of access to asufficientquantityof resources to enable our labour to bear fruit.
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Blood specimens were collected from all active injecting drug users, although not every specimen was ofsufficientquantityto allow for all serological tests to be performed.
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That will be necessary if we are to have asufficientquantityof water flowing.
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The information may not be available insufficientquantityat a regional or local level.
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European sources cannot supply us insufficientquantitynor at a low enough price.
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It is hoped to abandon it is soon as ordnance factories are producing insufficientquantity.
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But we must, of course, have asufficientquantityof them.
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It does not in anysufficientquantitybring in the bacon.
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Potentially any herbal remedy could put health at risk if taken insufficientquantity.
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They have always tried to produce asufficientquantityof food without any subvention.
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Such equipment and apparatus must be insufficientquantity, and be continually kept up to date.
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In an emergency asufficientquantityof these submarines should be in position and undetected.
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A series of important alternatives already exists, but not insufficientquantityor quality.
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But what we have not had insufficientquantityis capital.
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I understand that the farmers have not asufficientquantityto meet the requirements.
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