Sentence examples for a surprising quantity of from inspiring English sources

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.

Yes, a surprising amount of actors smoke.

Though he works in a fair degree of suspense -- as well as surprising quantities of gore -- the plot is repeatedly interrupted by rambles through local history and mores that sometimes feel luxuriantly digressive and sometimes merely wearying, as if Malone simply cannot bring himself to shut off the narrative faucet.

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

In addition to the non-linear, fluorescence pattern alluded to above, it is as well surprising that a lesser quantity of YOYO-1 might fluoresce more brightly than a greater quantity in the presence of a constant amount of DNA.

Furthermore, as vasculature is believed to be rich in MSCs, it is not surprising that a large quantity of AdMSCs can be isolated from a small amount of adipose tissue, which is highly vascularized [ 30, 31].

Also a surprising number of Internet commenters.

It is a surprising state of affairs.

He fooled a surprising number of people.