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Example sentences for "large supply"

  • They also found here a large supply of tools for intrenching work.

  • It would have required a large supply of high-explosive shells to have made much of an impression on the excellent defenses which the German soldiers had constructed on this part of the front.

  • A large supply of such articles as were likely to be useful were taken on board by Mr Banks.

  • Here in two hours they killed and salted a large supply of penguins.

  • After touching at some islands which lie about a day's sail to the westward of California, where there was a large supply of seals and aquatic birds, the Golden Hind continued her course.

  • Do you sometimes bring a large supply of provisions home from Voe?

  • Has there been a large supply of seamen during the last few years for the Greenland trade?

  • I purchased a large supply of choroko for my own personal use, as I found it to be a most healthy food.

  • I had a large supply of ammunition; thus I never lost an opportunity of shooting at a crocodile's head if I saw one above the surface.

  • Filled up with a large supply of wood ready to start tomorrow.

  • I was determined to carry a large supply to the south, as the country had in some places been depopulated by the slave-hunters.

  • I had written to Djiaffer Pacha for reinforcements [*] to be sent from Khartoum immediately, together with a large supply of dhurra.

  • They also had a large supply of liquor, but he refused to touch it and they did not insist.

  • Before entering the desert, a large supply of water was laid in and the order of travel was changed so that they ran at night instead of in the day time.

  • Looking up they perceived the little doctor seated above with a large supply of tobacco, which he was throwing among the contestants.

  • We had a large supply of corn and bran sent for our horses, and as long as any of this remained, I determined to continue in depot.

  • It was deficient in magazines and bomb proofs; and the powder, of which there was a large supply, was stored in an old castle in the middle of the town.

  • Under Ryan's directions, the unwounded scattered over the hillside and soon brought back a large supply of bushes and faggots.

  • I obtained a large supply of it from a convoy we captured, a few days since.

  • So delighted were we with the discovery, and so eager were we to possess a large supply of the roots, that we stopped not digging until every bag, pouch and pocket was filled.

  • This needful work we set about, therefore, at once, proposing afterwards an excursion to the Calabash Wood, in order to manufacture a large supply of vessels and utensils of all sorts and sizes.

  • Day after day, I have the annoyance of seeing a large supply of good cream go bad under my very eyes, simply because I have no use to which to put it.

  • Ibrahim returned from Gondokoro, bringing with him a large supply of ammunition.

  • The chief of Latooka would eat a handful of salt greedily that I gave him from my large supply, and I could purchase supplies with this article better than with beads.

  • This was rather awkward, as it was necessary for him to return to Gondokoro for a large supply of ammunition which had been left there for want of porters to convey it, when he had started for the interior.

  • Our force of 112 armed men could eat the country in the event of a fight, provided that a large supply of ammunition were at hand.

  • Thus matters stood till the afternoon, when Otoo himself came to the tents with a large supply.

  • When I returned on board in the evening, I found our good friends the natives had brought us a large supply of fish.

  • Having now got on board a large supply of refreshments, I determined to put to sea the next morning, and made the same known to the chief, who promised to see me again before we departed.

  • Early the next morning, some of our friends brought us a large supply of fish.

  • The transformation of English agriculture, the growth of large farms, drove great numbers of English peasants into the towns, and furnished a large supply of cheap labour for the new machinery.

  • This needful work we set about, therefore, at once, proposing afterward an excursion to the Calabash Wood, in order to manufacture a large supply of vessels and utensils of all sorts and sizes.

  • Day after day I have the annoyance of seeing a large supply of good cream go bad under my very eyes, simply because I have no use to which to put it.

  • So delighted were we with the discovery, and so eager were we to possess a large supply of the roots, that we stopped not digging until every bag, pouch, and pocket was filled.

  • I do not mean by this that a large crop of cabbage could be raised, year after year, if furnished only with a large supply of available nitrogen.

  • The cabbage needs a large supply of nitrogen in the soil, but removes comparatively little of it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five cents; large birds; large calibre; large congregation; large edition; large excess; large fire; large flat; large herd; large island; large meeting; large onion; large patch; large piece; large portions; large quantities; large scale; large school; large spoonful; large table; large tracts; largely composed; largely developed; largely subsistence; larger amount; this campaign