large number

Example Sentences

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Argentina, England, the Netherlands and Algeria chose Kansas City as their base camps because of the large number of elite-level training grounds, temperate climate and central location.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Station manager Lee Hurst said: "This was a significant and challenging incident involving a large number of vehicles."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

But Iran's embassy to Turkey said a "large" number of managerial and executive staff and others had been denied visas, prompting a furious response.

From Barron's • Jun. 6, 2026

A new group of seven or eight “employees” was seen regularly going in and out of the building carrying a large number of suitcases.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2026

From our first conversations we assumed that the DNA molecule contained a very large number of nucleotides linearly linked together in a regular way.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson