Below you will find example sentences with "vast quantities". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.
Vast Quantities in a sentence
Corpus data
- Displayed example sentences: 20
- Discovered as a combination around: vast
- Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 4
- Phrase length: 2 words
- Average sentence length: 27.5 words
Sentence profile
- Phrase position: 1 start, 16 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis
- The phrase "vast quantities" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 27.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
- Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and release vast quantities of water, and unleashing vast quantities of stored, oil, gas and crude stand out.
- In the phrase index, this combination connects with vast majority, vast array, vast amounts, vast array, vast amounts and vast agricultural, linking the page to nearby combinations.
Example types with vast quantities
This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:
The 50-year-old seemingly opted for vast quantities of ink to hide his identity. (15 words)
Other offenders included a shoplifter who stole vast quantities of goods from shops in Exeter. (15 words)
We have water, arable land, forests, oil and gas and vast quantities of solid minerals. (15 words)
For Tony Abbott, up on the IPA podium, it was a case of back to the future, as he lamented Australia’s lost chance under Labor to be a coal, gas and uranium ‘superpower’, even as vast quantities of these substances continue to be dug up. (46 words)
The bullish reaction in oil prices will likely be limited by Saudi Arabia’s vast quantities of crude in storage, estimated to equal roughly 26 days of current crude exports, a large portion of which is at the main export terminal Ras Tanura. (43 words)
One prepper, a senior citizen in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, had stockpiled vast quantities of neatly labeled food, a kilogram of gunpowder, an old submachine gun and multiple homemade weapons, some of which were found lying around his apartment, loaded. (41 words)
Example sentences (20)
Babies have incredible brains for taking in vast quantities of information, making sense of their experiences and learning from them.
Continued Arctic change risks losing the North Pole’s “great white shield” and unleashing vast quantities of stored carbon, rivaling the cumulative emissions from the US at its current rate.
For their part, wind turbines are a menace to both avian and oceanic wildlife, consume vast quantities of raw materials, have a limited lifespan and are an increasing blight on both inland and offshore landscapes.
For Tony Abbott, up on the IPA podium, it was a case of back to the future, as he lamented Australia’s lost chance under Labor to be a coal, gas and uranium ‘superpower’, even as vast quantities of these substances continue to be dug up.
The 50-year-old seemingly opted for vast quantities of ink to hide his identity.
Engineers are boring a 23-mile long transport tunnel to move vast quantities of the mineral from the mine to a port on Teesside.
Indeed, the sheer size of the illegal immigrant migration is a kind of globalization in reverse, with our country importing vast quantities of working-age men and women from around the world.
In short, vast quantities of Syrian oil are being stolen and the funds misappropriated, rather than going in any meaningful sense toward supporting the Syrian people.
Other offenders included a shoplifter who stole vast quantities of goods from shops in Exeter.
The People’s Republic, which is the world’s biggest crude importer, defied Western sanctions to purchase vast quantities of discounted oil for its processing plants.
The plane went down in the Yucatan Peninsula near the town of Celestun, and was believed to be carrying vast quantities of drugs at the time.
A Times investigation into “super emitter” sites last year revealed vast quantities of methane being released from oil wells and other energy facilities instead of being captured across the country.
Most dairy operations belong to large, commercial farms, which at all stages consume and release vast quantities of water, chemicals and pesticides.
So industrial fishing boats are busy vacuuming up vast quantities of sand eels and other staple foods of wild salmon in order to make food pellets for their captive counterparts.
A.I. researchers who are studying the problem worry that the technology─which learns to recognize patterns within vast quantities of data─could perpetrate inequality.
One prepper, a senior citizen in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, had stockpiled vast quantities of neatly labeled food, a kilogram of gunpowder, an old submachine gun and multiple homemade weapons, some of which were found lying around his apartment, loaded.
The bullish reaction in oil prices will likely be limited by Saudi Arabia’s vast quantities of crude in storage, estimated to equal roughly 26 days of current crude exports, a large portion of which is at the main export terminal Ras Tanura.
The security of the Amazon that consumes vast quantities of greenhouse gas that causes global warming is regarded as critical to the struggle against climate change.
They would have been able to deliver vast quantities of water to the fire when it was just six minutes’ flying time away.
We have water, arable land, forests, oil and gas and vast quantities of solid minerals.