He was born in Manhattan and reared on Long Island, and over the years he has acquired a staggering quantity of information about things like seventeenth-century window glass, eighteenth-century ceiling paint, and nineteenth-century mother-of-pearl annunciator buttons.
Spender adopted the young couple, introduced them to a staggering quantity of famous men and quickly became their closest ally.
Over the past year, there has been a staggering quantity of both intensely exciting and depressing green-tinged moments in Canada, a trend capped off with our strong showing at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
All up, there's been a staggering quantity of both intensely exciting and depressing green-tinged moments that have occurred in the span of 12 months, a trend capped off with Canada's strong showing at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris.
No need to panic: there's a known temporary issue caused by importing all the historical comments, which as you can imagine is a staggering quantity.
Worse, for Scotland, the enterprise had been ominously well financed, tying up a staggering quantity of the country's available cash.
James Jones, amassing a staggering quantity of closely observed detail, documented the war's human cost in an ambitious trilogy (From Here to Eternity [1951], The Thin Red Line [1962], and Whistle [1978]) that centred on loners who resisted adapting to military discipline.
To make a significant dent in the 2,500m litres of conventional oil that American refineries churn through each day, biofuel factories would have to be able to get hold of a staggering quantity of feedstock.
A staggering quantity of organic matter that will decompose to methane if it is thawed is still frozen in Arctic permafrost.
That builds up to a lot over a year – and a staggering amount over a lifetime.
Both had spent years smoking pot and consuming staggering quantities of mushrooms, cactus powders, LSD, and other mind-altering substances.
