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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a mammoth number" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very large quantity or amount of something, often in a figurative sense.
Example: "The charity received a mammoth number of donations during the fundraising event, exceeding all expectations."
Alternatives: "a huge number" or "an enormous number".
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Because of the mammoth number of books, security precautions were not perfect.
He put up mammoth numbers in nine games as a senior for the Bulldogs, passing for a school-record 2,442 yards, completing 123 of 207 passes (59%) for 25 touchdowns and just six interceptions.
When asked about mathematicians' fascination with such mammoth numbers, Caldwell said: "They are exciting to those of us who are interested in them.
It would require: a far more accurate draft than the one we have; knowledge of the number of chromosomes a mammoth had; the ability to stitch together such large stretches of DNA; ways of packaging that DNA into a nucleus; and hoping that all the DNA will still be in good working order.
The St. Cecilia Chorus numbers 134 singers, a mammoth group in a time when chamber choirs -- or even, among the most radical musicologists, one or two singers to a part -- are considered optimal for Baroque music.
Relief workers "have a mammoth task to alleviate the sufferings of this vast number of Iraqis," a draft report on the Red Crescent figures says.
That could turn out to be a mammoth undertaking.
It is a mammoth project.
It is a mammoth undertaking.
A mammoth mechanical calculator?
So it's been a mammoth task".
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