large amount
Example Sentences
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This matters especially in the brain, which consumes a large amount of the body's energy.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
This strategy has left the Fed with a large amount of mortgage assets.
From MarketWatch • Apr. 18, 2026
Murphy discovered a large amount of cash had gone and she confronted her niece.
From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026
Auditors are often tasked with traveling to the middle of nowhere and tallying up a large amount of unusual things, from chickens and pigs to quarry rocks, corn, traffic lights and telephone poles.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026
“This isn’t a large amount of power for the product one is getting,” he would assure his rapt congressional audience.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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