"quantity" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- He drank inordinate quantities of springwine, and slept the sleep of the dead as if he hoped that he would never be resurrected.
- Dalgliesh reflected that one of the minor hazards of a murder investigation was the inordinate quantity of caffeine he was expected to consume.
- They were throwing an inordinate quantity of mildew about and a shaft of late morning sunlight, swording through the towering windows, was alive with dust motes.
- Coughing, for an inordinate quantity of dust had been raised, I struggled to my feet.
- His stomach had been calcined by the inordinate quantity of whisky he had drunk, and was a dry and raging furnace.
- But Madeline still had kinsfolk, the nearest being a dissolute uncle who outraged his vitals with inordinate quantities of the white man's whisky.
- He never used to swear, though, at his men, they said; but somehow he got an inordinate quantity of cruel, unmitigated hard work out of them.
- The trouble with the stuff was that I had to take such inordinate quantities in order to feel the slightest effect.
- Or else something of great importance had to come first (usually to do with cabbages or brussels sprouts of which he liked to grow inordinate quantities).
- Roger bought an inordinate quantity of note-paper he didn't want in the least-out of sheer lightness of heart.
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