heavy number
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Reyes' decision was hailed by Colin O'Leary, who runs a 120-bed Ascentria nursing home in Boston that, like other US senior care facilities, includes a heavy number of Haitian workers.
From Barron's • Mar. 12, 2026
“Ask him now how he feels with that heavy number on his back.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 3, 2016
Had the Boorman-directed film come to fruition, Stoppard said, "it would have been a heavy number."
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2016
Some weekends are taken up with yacht launches, which vary from low-key ceremonies to full-on heavy number crowds, live bands and hog-roasts.
From Newsweek • Apr. 12, 2015
Throughout the economy, strike pressures have grown intense as more and more teachers, policemen and other municipal workers joined members of unions in basic industries in a heavy number of work stoppages.
From Time Magazine Archive
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