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Example sentences for "large quantities"

  • This style of clock was liked very much and was made in large quantities, and for several years.

  • This style was made for two or three years, but not in large quantities.

  • These valuable illuminants and fuels are considered here because, although they are found in traces in older strata, it is in the Ordovician that they occur for the first time in large quantities.

  • Both ice sheets and valley glaciers drag on large quantities of rock waste in their ground moraines.

  • Many springs have been charged under pressure with carbon dioxide from subterranean sources and are able therefore to take up large quantities of lime carbonate from the limestone rocks through which they pass.

  • At the fairs of Thermopylæ medicinal herbs and roots, especially hellebore, were sold in large quantities.

  • Large quantities of the seeds are raised on the Island of Malta and in some parts of Spain, and thence exported to England and America for the purpose of distillation or expression.

  • It is collected in large quantities in some portions of France, and is indigenous to other countries of Europe.

  • It is common to the markets of most of the large seaport cities; and, during the winter and spring, is shipped in large quantities to the interior and more southern sections of the United States.

  • If erected in this manner, and by an operator buying his materials in large quantities, Edison believes that these houses can be erected complete, including heating apparatus and plumbing, for $1200 each.

  • And not only so, but the lamp after its design must not be a mere laboratory possibility, but a practical commercial article capable of being manufactured at low cost and in large quantities.

  • In addition, large quantities of fresh potatoes and other vegetables were regularly carried by the 'Aurora', and many bags of new and old potatoes were landed at the Main Base.

  • Ninnis took up his abode in the sealers' hut so that he might the better look after their wants, which centred chiefly on sea elephant meat, and that in large quantities.

  • Neither the Antarctic nor any other petrels offered any resistance when disturbed on their nests, except by the expectoration of large quantities of a pink or green, oily fluid.

  • Although the sea throws up large quantities of sand on flat lee-shores, there are many cases where it continually encroaches on those same shores and washes them away.

  • During the present year, large quantities of Indian corn have been used as domestic fuel, and even for burning lime, in Iowa and other Western States.

  • It is therefore best not to buy it in large quantities.

  • Indulging in large quantities of cold drinks, or eating ice-creams, after a meal, tends to reduce the temperature of the stomach, and thus to stop digestion.

  • These, together with those that have been kept on hand so long as to have lost all medicinal value, are often sold in large quantities, and at reduced prices, to be manufactured into fluid extracts and tinctures.

  • If the gas is inhaled in large quantities it causes irritation of the respiratory passages, and suffocation.

  • The use of large quantities of drink at meals retards digestion by diluting the digestive fluids.

  • The excessive use of large quantities of strong tea or coffee stimulates the brain and causes wakefulness, and produces irritability of the nervous system.

  • This was used in German chemical shell, and was not particularly effective against us, although produced in large quantities by the Germans, in vessels used in peace time for a very common intermediate, monochlorbenzene.

  • Used in large quantities against an entirely unprotected army, its results might well have been decisive.

  • The effects of a new gas used in large quantities on the front was often just as serious a threat to organisation as the sudden development of a strange epidemic.

  • Hemp, flax, potatoes and tobacco are also raised in large quantities.

  • Forests abound, especially in Tavastland, whence timber is exported in large quantities, while agriculture flourishes in all these provinces.

  • It is said that fish are not to be found in as large quantities as formerly.

  • As coal is not in domestic use, however, large quantities of cheap wood are needed for burning and for charcoal making.

  • Condensed milk is sold in large quantities, but chiefly to supplement infants' supplies and to make sweetstuff.

  • Ivory has little or no value, and exists in large quantities.

  • Magnetic iron ore in large quantities is the only metal to be discovered in the river-beds.

  • You must give me muskets and ammunition in large quantities; I will then arm all my bonosoora (soldiers) and with your assistance I will fight M'tese.

  • Large quantities may be cured at once, by putting them into a basket as large as the vessel containing the boiling water will admit, and then just dipping them a minute or two, at the utmost.

  • Large quantities of this wholesome and refreshing preparation are manufactured and consumed every summer; it is sold in bottles, and also as a beverage, made by dissolving a large teaspoonful in a tumbler two-thirds filled with water.

  • With respect to Drink, physicians are decidedly against giving it to children in large quantities, and at irregular periods, whether it consists of the mother's milk, or any other equally mild liquid.

  • The sow perhaps refuses her feed, although she will drink water in large quantities.

  • Perhaps the animal has been given large quantities of rank grass, watery roots, which on account of its moist nature is quickly swallowed without being properly masticated.

  • Large quantities of mucus will escape from the nose and mouth.

  • Large quantities of this dangerous material are required for the Indians all over the country.

  • The Indian women in the neighbourhood of white settlements or trading posts bring in large quantities of the cranberries, which they gather in the marshes and forests, and sell to those who are able and willing to purchase.

  • It was decided that they should go into camp below Sea River Falls, on the Nelson, and pick berries at their leisure in the great section of country lying north-west from that point, as there they were to be found in large quantities.

  • They not only have an enormous capacity for devouring the meat cached by the Indians, but they will carry away, and cunningly hide, large quantities.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large quantities" 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:
    first appeared; large bowl; large bunch; large city; large court; large district; large doses; large edition; large extent; large fire; large forest; large genus; large herd; large mass; large measure; large sheet; large space; large square; large stone; large sum; large supply; large tract; largely employed; larger force; larger measure; larger number