large number
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That is a large number considering that the S&P 500 is only down a couple percentage points from its all-time high.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 18, 2026
As an embarrassingly large number of readers often remind me, I own the Pulitzer Prize for Pitiful Prognostication.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 13, 2026
Researchers also found that Myotis bats possess an unusually large number of genes that produce proteins interacting with DNA viruses, such as herpes viruses, which carry their genetic information in DNA.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
The exiled Tibetans said relatives told them a large number of labourers from Lhasa and Shigatse had been at a bridge construction project in the area.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
In a related exercise, Democritus imagined calculating the volume of a cone or a pyramid by a very large number of extremely small stacked plates tapering in size from the base to the apex.
From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan
