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Large number   /lɑrdʒ nˈəmbər/   Listen
Large number

noun
1.
A large indefinite number.  Synonyms: battalion, multitude, pack, plurality.  "A multitude of TV antennas" , "A plurality of religions"






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"Large number" Quotes from Famous Books



... this estimate was derived from an official census taken in 1975 by the Somali Government; population counting in Somalia is complicated by the large number of nomads and by refugee movements in response to famine and ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... rose to appalling shrieks and ravings, and a mob of demons, incited by their fanatic passions almost to frenzy, rushed from a side street straight upon Heideck. They had somewhere on their way been joined by a large number of other female fugitives; and the sight of these unhappy creatures made the German officer's blood ...
— The Coming Conquest of England • August Niemann

... have followed a modified form of the method developed by Sommer,[1] the essential feature of which is the statistical treatment of results obtained by uniform technique from a large number of cases. ...
— A Study of Association in Insanity • Grace Helen Kent

... and silk; have a kettle of water boiling hard; drop the corn into it and cook ten minutes (or longer if the corn is not young). If a very large number of ears are put into the water they will so reduce the temperature that a longer time will be needed. In no case, however, should the corn be left too long in the water, as overcooking spoils ...
— The International Jewish Cook Book • Florence Kreisler Greenbaum

... this heading are used very extensively in silk weaving, especially for fabrics requiring a heavy warp and a large number of shafts. Enter first the odd and then the even shafts. An 8 harness draw of this kind, of which three repeats are shown in Fig. 3, runs as follows: 1, 3, 5, 7, ...
— Theory Of Silk Weaving • Arnold Wolfensberger


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