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Example sentences for "large amount"

  • Cape Evans Hut with a large amount of stores, but no clothing or equipment and only a few sledges.

  • A large amount of important scientific work was carried out.

  • Cape Royds Hut with a large amount of general stores, but no clothing or equipment now.

  • It transpires that when the Soldier Butte bank was robbed the other night, a large amount of money belonging to the government was taken.

  • A complete narrative of these events, however, together with a large amount amount of interesting matter relating to the career of Champlain derived from other sources, is given in the Memoir contained in the first volume of this work.

  • Seventeen guns fell into our hands, and the enemy destroyed by fire their store-houses, containing a large amount of commissary stores.

  • A large amount of rations was issued to the families that remained in Jackson.

  • The surprise of the enemy was complete, the victory overwhelming; some three thousand prisoners fell into Scott's hands, also a large amount of ordnance and ordnance stores.

  • There he had placed a large amount of silver and of gold and other objects of great value, that could endure some moisture, had heaped stones over them and piled on earth.

  • Free stalagmites, however, which are formed under fissures capable of pouring down a large amount of water on the occasion of a great flood of rain, must succumb in time, though not so soon as the supported columns.

  • In summer there is a waterway from Tomsk to Tumen, a thousand miles to the westward, and a large amount of freight to and from Siberia passes over it.

  • We drowned our sorrows in the flowing tea-cup, and fortified ourselves with a large amount of heat.

  • This, after deducting running expenses, would not leave a large amount of profit.

  • Obviously there would be a large amount of work for the general government in connection with investigation of the mineral resources of the country, and the testing of coals, cements and road materials.

  • Since the American occupation a large amount of time has been successfully devoted to the working out of a good all-around diet made up of local products the cost of which comes within the means of the poor.

  • The American army brought in a large amount of gold, but this did not remain in circulation long, as it was exported by the different business concerns, or hoarded.

  • I do not suppose the whole of the effects were worth transporting to Bridgeport, although estimated by him at a large amount.

  • The company had used my name as endorser to a large amount, many times larger than I had any idea of.

  • Assembling together some eighteen or twenty cavaliers in whom he most trusted, and taking a large amount of silver, drawn from the mines, he accepted the invitation to repair to Cuzco.

  • He had formerly, as we have seen, by his timely interposition, more than once saved the life of Hernando; and he had consented to receive a pecuniary obligation from him to a large amount.

  • He replenished his treasury with a large amount of silver which he drew from the mines of La Plata Saltpetre, obtained in abundance in the neighbourhood of Cuzco, furnished the material for gunpowder.

  • The only obstacle in his way was the Inca's ransom, and the Spaniards had patiently waited, till the return of the emissaries from Cuzco swelled the treasure to a large amount, though still below the stipulated limit.

  • In Western Europe there is a large amount of aristocratic sentiment, both in the nobles and in the people; but it exists in spite of, rather than in consequence of, actual social conditions.

  • The doctors are generally well-educated men, and do a large amount of work for a very small remuneration.

  • Several of these periodicals are very ably conducted, and offer to their readers a large amount of valuable information; but I have noticed that the leaves of the more serious part often remain uncut.

  • At the University of Moscow he had attended lectures on history and philosophy, and had got through a large amount of desultory reading.

  • Some hundred prisoners were captured around Braisne, where the Germans had thrown a large amount of field-gun ammunition into the river, where it was visible under two feet of water.

  • A large amount of cash and supplies for the Austrian prisoners was sent to the American consul at Nish, who was also acting consul for Germany and Austria in Serbia.

  • Over cannon were captured and a large amount of war ammunition seized.

  • The poisonous skin glands of the toad have been found to give a marked chromaffin reaction, and to contain a large amount of adrenalin.

  • Statistical study by him of men of genius and their ancestors showed them to be endowed with a large amount of energy.

  • Half way up the valley is an Iron Spring, the oxydization from which has gathered together a large amount of red which the Indians still prize highly and use for face paint.

  • Though the assays of the floating-rock did not yield a large amount of the precious metals, they showed a little--as high as $3.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large amount" 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:
    far the greater part; large army; large band; large creek; large detachment; large dose; large doses; large excess; large farm; large flocks; large fortune; large game; large herds; large letters; large library; large majorities; large masses; large number; large numbers; large patch; large plantation; large room; large size; large space; large wooden; largely subsistence