Sentence examples for a very numerous from inspiring English sources

Metalloproteinases (MMPs) are a very numerous and heterogeneous family of zinc-dependent proteinases that fulfil the role of degrading the ECM components to maintain homeostasis [ 14, 15].

It was reportedly a hit ("very numerous & splendid audience," wrote one who saw it).

For a large enough object of a given material, the modes become very numerous and merge into a diffuse continuum.

And when a disease's victims are both poor and not very numerous that's a double whammy.

They are very numerous (almost a hundred of them have been identified), they are as diverse as the many grains and fruits and yeasts that are used in the production of alcohol, and their role is, gastronomically, a vital one.

Not until the thirteenth century was the need felt to introduce into daily language a term suitable for counting "very" numerous objects, and, with little imagination, "million" was coined.

These germs have radii of only a few nm, but are very numerous.

Often the zooids in a colony are tiny, but very numerous, and the colonies can form large encrusting or mat-like patches.

The units present in the city at any one time were thus never very numerous, numbering a few thousands at best, but they were complemented by several detachments stationed around the capital, in Thrace and Bithynia.

Still, even though they had shrunk a bit the rhinos were still very numerous.

Thirdly, T. thermophila shows an intriguing co-existence of apparent short- versus long-distance dispersal strategies (by normal cells versus cells that have transformed into elongated morphs with very numerous ciliae and a caudal flagellum [ 69]).