Sentence examples for pretty quantity from inspiring English sources

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The 17th century ushered in more sober tastes – Gervase Markham's 1615 recipe uses two eggs, a "pretty quantity of faire running water," cloves, mace, cinnamon and nutmeg, all beaten together, "which done make thicke as you think food with fine wheate flower".

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Jon Snow, the Channel 4 news presenter, has been invited to put questions to Abraham as part of the getting-to-know-me effort; this acknowledges that Abraham is a pretty unknown quantity to Channel 4 staff, but keen to find allies.

I order them in pretty big quantities — a three year's supply at a time — to get a good price, and the savings are substantial.

You buy it in pretty big quantities and it is the nicest thing in the world.

Research shows that we'll consume pretty much whatever quantity we're served, and be satisfied with it.

A woman in a pretty dress empties a quantity of sawdust from her knickers, her face flooding with pleasure and relief.

The HTC One is pretty much a known quantity at this point; A 5-inch display, high-quality brushed stainless finish, dual rear camera, 2.3GHz Snapdragon processor and expandable micro SD card storage, plus some whizbang software features like refocusable images.

We know a woman who buys quantities of pretty soaps for the same reason.

Beer is very complicated, and Budweiser makes pretty good lager in staggering quantity with amazing consistency.

It seems pretty well established that the quantity of parental words influences children's rate of vocabulary growth.

These individual accusations of Hitler-dom are pretty boring, but their sheer quantity points to an interesting question: Who in world history is the most like Hitler?

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