Sentence examples for a sort of quantity from inspiring English sources

Modifying Averroes' doctrine in this respect, Giles argues that a portion of matter, in order to be able to receive a form, needs to possess already a sort of quantity.

A: Sort of.

"The stuff on the bottom has been accumulating for 200 years, and it's only now we're really trying to pull it out in any sort of quantity," local diver Dave Thomas tells Australia's Seven News.

This amounts to a promotion of one sort of quantity to the category of substance.

The overall effect of these factors can be accounted for by a single quantity, a sort of diffusion coefficient.

When water temperatures rise beyond a certain range, their plant symbionts go into a sort of frenzy and produce dangerous quantities of oxygen radicals.

As human activity pumps out greenhouse gases, the Earth's oceans have acted as a sort of sponge, sucking up huge quantities of carbon dioxide.

"The Australian political system is under siege from this sort of quantity of donations, and Malcolm Turnbull, if he wants to be credible in ensuring we have a clean electoral system, needs to commit to that first.

"It is very, very difficult to take that sort of quantity of money out of our budget in Northern Ireland without there being difficult decisions".

DES MOINES Held in conjunction with the World Food Prize, a sort of Nobel Prize for advances in the "quality, quantity, and availability" of the world's food supply, the World Food Festival will fill the East Village area of Des Moines from Oct. 13 to 16.

Pro tip: if you cover a cake in a sufficient quantity of holographic glitter (about £2-3 a pot), it creates a sort of shimmering disco halo around your creation, blinding observers to its awfulness.