Sentence examples for in astonishing quantities from inspiring English sources

But it certainly motivated managers to try to maximise profits.Options were handed out in astonishing quantities.

Cocaine is snorted in astonishing quantities and from a highly unorthodox range of surfaces.

Over the next 10 years the capitalists of the world would assemble astonishing quantities of paper in the service of the hunt.

But the retailer, based in Bentonville, Ark., has built a nearly $200-billion-a-year 200-billion-a-year 200-billion-a-year 200-billion-a-yearf itempireom lawn mowers to toilet paper.

The Aztec turned out an astonishing quantity of these figures, which, standing in rows, served as standard bearers along the avenues leading to various buildings.

I was struck by the astonishing quantity of semi-colons, generally a written rather than spoken convention.

In America this amounted to 43m tonnes of food in 1997; in Britain to 4m tonnes in 2006.If all rich countries waste food at the same rate as Britain and America, very roughly 100kg per person per year, the total waste adds up to 100m tonnes of food a year, equivalent to one-third of the entire world's supply of meat an astonishing quantity.

Mobile phones are selling in astonishing numbers.

We live in astonishing times.

Zirconium absorbs oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen in astonishing amounts.

"I am not interested in astonishing people," he said.