Sentence examples for a vast order from inspiring English sources

Several ship brokers refer to a vast order of scrap metal stuck on America's West Coast that was bound for China.

It built a vast order-book of long-term contracts.

Local merchants had been sending vast orders of groceries out to the camps, and the foreigners paid generously, he said.

The world is a "vast organism" with order and form expressing intention and mind, which implies that God is inseparable from his works.

If you listen to this long enough, you get an image of a vast communications-age pecking order: jet-setting wireless types giving orders to deskbound assistants giving orders to photocopying secretaries giving orders to grungy messengers on bikes.

Arslan would contact a vineyard pretending to be the wine-buyer at a plush London hotel and order a vast amount of expensive wine.

I have a dream now of all seventeen thousand images exhibited in a vast warehouse, in the order Smith envisioned; Pittsburgh, 1955-1957, backghtoback to life in smoky, black-and-white glory.

Early in his career, Roland Barthes trotted out a vast semiological edifice in order to deride whatever he considered "bourgeois" (the equivalent of "thumbs down") and to assert primacy over literary creators he couldn't rival.

Screening methods seek to sample a vast chemical space in order to identify starting points for further chemical optimisation.

BP has asked a US court to order a "vast number" of businesses to repay part of the compensation awards they were paid in the wake of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

To my left is a chap who orders a vast takeaway of hotdogs, "For dessert".