Sentence examples for a surprising quantity from inspiring English sources

We find that PyOM retains a surprising quantity of NH3 N and that this retention capacity increases significantly as PyOM is exposed to conditions mimicking natural weathering processes.

Here you can find Japanese scrolls, medieval French books of hours, Chinese porcelain, Roman mosaics, Scandinavian ceramics, Italian glassware and a surprising quantity of humble-looking folk art and Americana.

The canon of Chaucer's works began to accumulate delightful but apocryphal trifles such as "The Flower and the Leaf" and "The Assembly of Ladies" (both c. 1475), the former, like a surprising quantity of 15th-century verse of this type, purportedly written by a woman.

Even on the ground, we all pass a surprising quantity of gas every day.

Activity directly connected with the soil predominated; but there were also many establishments, usually small, engaged in manufacturing, and such products as textiles, pottery, tiles, and papyrus were turned out in surprising quantities.

They're still a long way from powering the antimatter drive of Captain Kirk's Enterprise, but researchers are generating surprising quantities of antihydrogen.

Using touchscreens, Plexiglas boxes holding raisins, and buckets hiding grapes, Brannon wants to establish that ringtail and mongoose lemurs possess a surprising ability to learn sequences of pictures and to discriminate quantities.

Brannon is using touch-screens, Plexiglas boxes holding raisins, and buckets hiding grapes to establish that ringtails such as Aristides and his mongoose lemur cousins possess a surprising ability to learn sequences of pictures and to discriminate quantities.

We also discovered a surprising myoblast behavior.

Frank F. Furstenberg gives a surprising answer.

It's a surprising contradiction.