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Example sentences for "immense numbers"

  • By two loops from the centre of its body it emits the FilariƦ described by Carter in immense numbers.

  • I well remember a similar case of supposed hydrothorax, where the post-mortem examination revealed the presence of immense numbers of these formations occupying the right side of the chest.

  • The worm occurs in immense numbers and is a true blood-sucker.

  • Immense numbers of wild fowl are often captured in this way.

  • Following will be found two examples of traps in very common use for the capture of wild ducks, and in the region of Chesapeake bay, immense numbers of the game are annually taken by their aid.

  • Immense numbers of these troublesome vermin have been taken in a single season by a dozen such traps, and they possess great advantages over all other mole traps on account of their simplicity and unfailing success.

  • In our northern cold regions, where the wild geese and ptarmigan flock in immense numbers, this trap is commonly utilized.

  • Stimulated by the desire of gain, the idle boys of the city are always on the look-out; so that, in the course of a year, immense numbers of this public enemy are captured and slaughtered.

  • Immense numbers of cross-roads made by the wild horses.

  • Missouri, which I ascertained to be the [South fork of the] river Platte, on which we discovered signs of immense numbers of Indians.

  • THE COD Throughout the northern seas the cod is found, and in some parts it is taken in immense numbers.

  • On some of the islands in the Pacific and Antarctic oceans they are found in immense numbers, and have a curious way of standing side by side upon the shore in long rows, with their flippers hanging down on either side of their bodies.

  • But it did so much mischief in cultivated ground that it was trapped and shot in immense numbers, and it has now almost entirely disappeared from many districts in which it once abounded.

  • On the pampas, in large marshy lagoons, this Coot is sometimes seen in immense numbers; thousands of birds uniting in one flock, and spreading over the low shores to feed, they look like a great concourse of Rooks.

  • In the autumn it sometimes visits the pampas in immense numbers, to feed on the seed of the giant thistle (Carduus mariana); and on these occasions I have known as many as sixty killed at one shot.

  • I noticed on these and the Lower Rapids a certain fly or miller, which is found at the evening hour flying about in immense numbers.

  • Refined and scientific horticulture has been extensively applied to the multiplication of the grape, which is now produced in immense numbers, from single eyes, or buds.

  • Ladybirds occasionally occur in immense numbers, and from ignorance of their usefulness have sometimes been regarded with superstitious dread.

  • The former go down to the sea in the autumn; but in the following spring the young female fish swim up the rivers in immense numbers, while the young males remain in the sea.

  • Hand mill-stones of lava are also found in immense numbers in these strata.

  • Immense numbers of little bees, among many other visitors, may be noted on a fine day in May and early June about this showy shrub or tree.

  • In the end of September, to build their nests, they go in immense numbers to the island of Tristan d'Acunha, in the South Atlantic Ocean.

  • The Guillemots during winter are frequently seen in immense numbers on Rock-all Bank and on the banks of Newfoundland.

  • On the prairies of the Western continent it is found in immense numbers.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aged thirty; before they; before using; bright lines; dear child; district school; extensively cultivated; for twenty; full moon; green hill; head dark; immense concourse; immense height; immense number; immense numbers; immense quantities; immense relief; immense size; immense treasure; momentary pause; more comfortable; pretty near; taut bowline; veal stock; vous prie; what pertains