tremendous quantity

collocation in English

meaningsoftremendousandquantity

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tremendous
adjective
uk
/trɪˈmen.dəs/us
/trɪˈmen.dəs/
very great in amount or level, or ...
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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 oftremendousandquantityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The midden below the pavement was very moist and oily, with atremendousquantityof small charcoal fragments and marl inclusions.
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It has atremendousquantityof unbuilt land all round its area.
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There was also no experience to suggest that thetremendousquantityof information required for such a system could be handled efficiently.
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The result is that so many farmers have gone into the milk market that atremendousquantityof milk is being produced.
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That is why we on this side are concerned about the exclusion from the survey of thistremendousquantityof water.
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It would involve the use of atremendousquantityof shipping.
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Potatoes are one particular example where atremendousquantityof potatoes grown go for manufacture.
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It needs a great deal of water for supplying ships and atremendousquantityto provide the ice for fish packing.
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In the case of tea, it is not easy to get atremendousquantityof it out of bond in a great hurry, because it is a strictly limited amount.
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It is atremendousquantity.
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Secondly, it will have to move up atremendousquantityof stores that are not at present in the place in which they are likely to be wanted.
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One can buy a one-ounce packet of tobacco in which atremendousquantityof that one ounce is simplynon est—it does not exist.
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But in this age of evidence-based medicine, there was no evidence of the toxicity of such tremendous quantities of pulverized concrete or incinerated computer parts and office furnishings.
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I find that even now we are importing tremendous quantities of machine tools.
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Tremendous quantities of water are and will continue to be required to maintain this standard, for industrial development and so on.
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There are millions of money and tremendous quantities of plant in these various dockyard towns.
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Door handles, crockery and similar articles could be manufactured in tremendous quantities to go into different passenger vessels.
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Throughout their captive journey through space, the various scientific departments have each acquired tremendous quantities of data.
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