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quantity

[kwon-ti-tee] / ˈkwɒn tɪ ti /


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Counter Terrorism Policing revealed on Tuesday a quantity of petrol but no explosive devices had been found during searches.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

These scenes are bracing but overwrought, and it sometimes seems that Ms. Kingsolver’s approach to tragedy is to prioritize quantity over quality.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

"But I've never seen such a beautiful vintage, both in terms of quantity and quality. It's a five-star harvest," the winemaker said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 27, 2026

With this large quantity of collaborations in his hands, he made it a priority to spotlight these tracks on “Dosis.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2026

Instead we ate a small quantity of dried abalone, and afterwards my brother Ramo climbed over the cliff.

From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell

Peatland fires are common in Kalimantan and can smoulder and spread under the soil for weeks or months, emitting huge quantities of smoke and sometimes causing surface blazes.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Capt Traoré has previously accused smugglers of taking large quantities of gold out of Burkina Faso illegally and said some of the proceeds were helping finance militant groups.

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Training and running frontier-level AI models requires vast quantities of computing power, but so does deploying AI across an economy that scales to millions of people, he noted.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 26, 2026

We’ve shipped enormous quantities of rump across the Pacific for ground beef for hamburgers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026

Nearly everything in the store required microwaving or oven heating or scrupulous refrigeration or came in large, family-sized quantities.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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