Sentence examples for prodigious quantities of timber from inspiring English sources

Though the rate of fire was slow, and prodigious quantities of timber and labour were required to build and serve one, a large trebuchet could do serious damage to stone fortifications.

America is blessed with prodigious quantities of both types of shale.

Violence, sexuality and the consumption of prodigious quantities of an imaginary drug.

China already extracts prodigious quantities of the latter some 10bcm last year.

Ethanol production consumes prodigious quantities of natural gas, diesel fuel and other inputs that lead to carbon dioxide emissions.

Pandas solve this problem by rapidly passing prodigious quantities of the grass through their digestive tracts on a daily basis.

For four decades Mr Osbourne (pictured above in his prime) drank too much and took prodigious quantities of drugs.

But it is clear that they release prodigious quantities of climate-changing carbon dioxide when they happen.

He was, indeed, brilliant, as testified by the prodigious quantities of poems, letters, stories and other papers he left behind.

On shore, he kept the ribbons in his beard, drank prodigious quantities of alcohol and was reportedly irresistible to women.

It attaches itself to vines of the Tetrastigma plant, a member of the grape family, from which the Rafflesia's filament-like tentacles suck prodigious quantities of nutrients.