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Example sentences for "good quantity"

  • And having kept the Liver and Bacon hot all the while, pour these Herbs over them, which ought to be in good quantity.

  • We considered we should have occasion for some such things ourselves, and so we kept a good quantity of English stuffs, cloth, baize, &c.

  • Some days after this we took an Arabian junk, going from the Gulf of Persia to Mocha, with a good quantity of pearl on board.

  • This goes farther than ordinary ketchup, as so little is required to flavour a good quantity of gravy.

  • When done, put the fish into a deep dish or scallop shell, with a good quantity of bread crumbs; place small pieces of butter on the top, set in a Dutch oven before the fire to brown, or use a salamander.

  • When a good quantity of this is drawn off, it is put into a vessel, and is their cocoa-wine without farther preparation.

  • They found this ship fully as rich as she was reported, having thirteen chests full of dollars, eighty pounds weight of gold, a good quantity of jewels, and twenty-six tons of silver in bars.

  • We have, however, a good quantity of excellent wood, and have made a good run, say sixty miles.

  • Peel a good quantity of the best turnips, selecting such as are not bitter.

  • Take ginger and every sort of spice that is used to meat, and half a pound of brown sugar, a good quantity of saltpetre, and a pound of juniper-berries.

  • By this method we got cheaper, and with less trouble, a good quantity of fruit, as well as other refreshments, from people who had no canoes to carry them off to the ships.

  • Finding here a good quantity of loose ice, I ordered two boats out, and sent them to take some on board.

  • For, having on board a good quantity of fresh water, or ice, which was the same thing, the people were enabled to wash and dry their clothes and linen; a care that can never be enough attended to in all long voyages.

  • A good quantity of stones had arrived there, and a few men, previously trained, had been practicing in transcribing music.

  • A good quantity of this must be on hand, that fresh paper may always be available while the used paper is drying again.

  • In return for this investment he had a good quantity of stones, several presses, and a great stock of Gleissner's music, which represented an income of twenty thousand gulden, if it could be sold.

  • These dried meats must be put in a good quantity of water, to soak, the night before they are to be used.

  • Draw up a good quantity of mould about the stalk that is above ground, make it into a kind of hill round each, and leave them to nature.

  • Clean and drain a good quantity of spinach leaves, two large handfuls of parsley, and a handful of green onions.

  • Set on a fryingpan of the proper size, and put into it a good quantity of fresh lard or dripping.

  • Chop fine a little winter savoury and thyme, a good quantity of pennyroyal, pepper and salt, a few cloves, some allspice, ginger and nutmeg.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "good quantity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called natural; good action; good advantage; good breakfast; good brown; good doctor; good fight; good grass; good horses; good land; good large; good meat; good policy; good qualities; good repute; good sense; good servant; good story; good stuff; good teacher; good thoughts; good wife; good workman; good writing; justices appointed; wheat raising