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Example sentences for "immense number"

  • Now, if you hold it horizontally, and softly tap the side that is opposite to the hole, an immense number of perfect rings can be produced from one mouthful of smoke.

  • Now let us consider that this reduced hat-box is a cylinder of metal made up of an immense number of little wire cylinders close together like the hairs in a painter's brush.

  • If there were no conditions whatever, except that the men were all to go out together, in threes, they could row in an immense number of different ways.

  • For the public at large this was undoubtedly a vast benefit, and in consequence of the unexampled lowness of fares, an immense number of persons had gone to California during the last preceding few months.

  • There are also to be noticed an immense number of drawings and photographs, taken during the Expedition, as also some very valuable landscape sketches, made for me by Mr. Heaphy.

  • Pasteur found also an immense number of other organic substances such as spores of fungi, which had been floating about in the air and had got caged in this way.

  • Thus, if you took some ordinary black pepper or some hay, and steeped it in water, you would find in the course of a few days that the water had become impregnated with an immense number of animalcules swimming about in all directions.

  • He found that even the mercury itself was positively full of organic matters; that from being constantly exposed to the air, it had collected an immense number of these infusorial organisms from the air.

  • An immense number of hardened sinners, mostly of the lower orders, were thus awakened and brought to repentance amid shrieks and convulsions.

  • An immense number of societies arose aiming at the accomplishment of home mission work, inspired by the Jesuit spirit and carrying out unquestioningly the ultramontane ideas of their leaders.

  • But there is an immense number of beings who will understand the law.

  • On that occasion an immense number of hearers were converted.

  • Germany is represented by an immense number of different articles, but none of them in net value touch very high figures.

  • There are an immense number of fine brick buildings in ruins, but not one of brick or stone at present inhabited.

  • There must at that time have been an immense number of soldiers in the transition state in England; men who disdained the labours of peaceful life, or had by long habit become unfitted for them.

  • Even after we had partaken of a splendid and delicate dinner, to which an immense number of other guests sat down, he did not improve.

  • I learned an immense number of things in this half-hour's conversation.

  • Defn: A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residue of benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromatic derivatives.

  • An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.

  • The presence of an immense number of individuals plainly begets a feeling of security and mutual support.

  • Reference has already been made to the fact that during those years an immense number of buffaloes were killed by the farmers of eastern Kansas and Nebraska for their meat.

  • Unquestionably that region yielded an immense number of buffalo robes, and since the slaughter thousands of tons of bones have been gathered up there.

  • An immense number of Crucifixes on the road attest and command the devotion of the people.

  • There are in Frankfort an immense number of Jews, who have a quarter of the city allotted to them.

  • An immense number of watch-makers is another distinguishing feature in this city.

  • I did not find any water throughout the distance, but crossed several fine large gum creeks, and saw an immense number of native dogs.

  • The seas of this epoch included an immense number of Zoophytes, nearly 400 species of Mollusca, and a few Crustaceans and Fishes.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agreed boundaries; agricultural education; broken heart; candle power; coming home; dance looby; executive ability; external auditory; immense amount; immense army; immense booty; immense concourse; immense crowd; immense extent; immense fortune; immense majority; immense numbers; immense relief; immense treasure; immense value; mention the; move rapidly; organic beings; sixteen thousand; when fully; whose presence