The phrase "colossal number of" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It is used to describe an exceptionally large or enormous quantity of something. Example: The company received a colossal number of applications for the job opening. In this sentence, "colossal number of applications" indicates that there were a significantly large number of people who applied for the job.
Similarly, there's a colossal number of characters, and yet they're all distinctive, and the actors have fun with their roles.
For sure the system is partly at fault here: students these days are expected to take a colossal number of exams all in one sitting.
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A guy with a colossal number of records who locks himself in the studio, cuts a few of them up and repacks the result as an album - all very 1990s.
But such a colossal number of ad impressions would make those sites in aggregate as large as Facebook or Yahoo – something that Mike Shields, a writer on Ad Week, says is highly unlikely.
If Sony was betting a colossal number of chips on champion products, those products had to speak the same language and pay off before someone else's champion products redefined the game.
The force has invested in dealing with heavy drug users (who can commit colossal numbers of crimes), offering clinics for testing.
The home affairs select committee condemned the European response to the "colossal" numbers of people seeking asylum, saying the crisis should have been anticipated, and European countries had done "too little, too late".
The Chanson de Roland indulges freely in the fantastic and the unreal: hence Charlemagne's patriarchal age and preternatural strength (he is more than 200 years old when he conquers Spain); or the colossal numbers of those slain by the French; or, again, the monstrous races of men following the Saracen banners.
Nevertheless, these colossal numbers of lives do convey a sense of the magnitude of Turing's contribution.
Because of the colossal numbers of transactions it makes on a daily basis, Lazada can leverage scale capabilities to offer its services for a fraction of what traditional variations would charge — and still make a profit.
