large numbers

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When produced and released in large numbers, sterile male flies mate with wild female flies, which then lay unfertilized eggs, according to the USDA.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 6, 2026

Researchers uncovered 23 hearths containing large numbers of crushed and burned fragments of green mineral.

From Science Daily • Jun. 3, 2026

But its shares fell in extended trading, which Ruth Foxe-Blader, managing partner at US venture capital firm Citrine Venture Partners, put down to "a law of large numbers".

From BBC • May 21, 2026

But as long as the war remains reasonably limited in duration and doesn’t involve the commitment of large numbers of ground troops, opportunistic aggression against Taiwan as a function of Operation Epic Fury is unlikely.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

In middens around Yellowstone National Park, he said, they first show up in large numbers about five hundred years ago, the time of the great epidemics.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann