large numbers

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According to the researchers, sunlight's broad spectrum helps support quasi-phase matching inside the nonlinear crystal, allowing the production of large numbers of position-correlated photon pairs.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

Thursday’s 90-minute CBS debate may have been the final opportunity for candidates to directly address large numbers of voters.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

The dump, which is partly open air, attracts large numbers of scavenger birds.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

The celebrations used to bring large numbers of foreign guests to Moscow, but this time only the leaders of Belarus, Malaysia and Laos, and a few other dignitaries, will attend.

From BBC • May 8, 2026

In the early eighteenth century, large numbers of these Ulster Scots—or Scotch-Irish, as they called themselves—and their descendants pulled up stakes and crossed the Atlantic to the British colonies there.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz