Sentence examples for A sizable quantity of from inspiring English sources

Opposition groups in this area, it seemed, appeared to have received a sizable quantity of weapons from sources outside Syria.

The petitioner's car had been searched pursuant to a warrant, and a sizable quantity of marijuana had been found in the trunk.

When a sizable quantity of this material accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, a nuclear explosion occurs there, causing the ejection of hot surface gases on the order of 1⁄10,000 the amount of material in the Sun.

(This last was an affectionate gibe at the astronomical kind of counting Picasso himself indulges in when he wishes to indicate a sizable quantity of anything. He once said that one of his father's paintings of his modest Málaga pigeon cote showed it filled with "hundreds of pigeons — with thousands of pigeons — with thousands and millions of pigeons").

After reporting that Federal troops had confiscated 700 acres of his corn, 150 of his cattle and 400 of his hogs, a Southern planter sought permission to sell cotton to buy a sizable quantity of provisions to feed the hundred slaves wishing to remain on his plantation.

There will also be concern that the intelligence agencies were unable to acquire information of a detailed plot that appears to have required several people to carry out and perhaps a sizable quantity of explosives.

Incorporation of straw, thus, results in recycling of a sizable amount of plant nutrients.

A sizable amount of pollution requires no chicanery.

He sent a sizable amount of money on his hair.

A subset of taxa was identified explaining a sizable amount of the variation in fecal calprotectin.

Start collecting a sizable amount of vinyl records.