Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigSuggestions(2)
The phrase "an excess of items" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a quantity of items that is greater than what is needed or expected.
Example: "The warehouse was filled with an excess of items, making it difficult to find what we actually needed."
Alternatives: "a surplus of items" or "an abundance of items."
Exact(1)
Furthermore, the Delphi resulted in an excess of items, hence the process resulted in partial consensus where the coordination team adjusted the questionnaire by e.g. selecting the most preferred items.
Similar(59)
"There is no justification for assuming that an excess of one specific item on the receipts side of the balance of payments will always be available to finance an excess of another specific but unrelated item on the payments side".
"There is no justification for assuming that an excess of one specific item on the receipts side of the balance of payments will always be available to finance an excess of another specific but unrelated item on the payments side".30 For example, high cereal prices could coincide with high prices of non-cereal imports.
It suffers from an excess of high-end luxury items and a shortage of genuine quality-of-life-changing design solutions.
ExC10 showed a similar but more pronounced pattern of decline and contained an excess of genes with GO items for mitosis, cell cycle and cell division (P<10−7 for each category), reflecting the decreasing activity of these functions as the cell model terminally differentiated.
There is an excess of treacle.
Obesity is an excess of body fat.
It leads to an excess of caution.
Is this an excess of razzle-dazzle?
The problem of an excess of labor was, therefore, nonexistent.
Before a crisis, he observed, there is "an excess of excess".
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com