Sentence examples for sizable quantity of from inspiring English sources

Opposition groups in this area, it seemed, appeared to have received a sizable quantity of weapons from sources outside Syria.

The petitioner's car had been searched pursuant to a warrant, and a sizable quantity of marijuana had been found in the trunk.

When a sizable quantity of this material accumulates on the surface of the white dwarf, a nuclear explosion occurs there, causing the ejection of hot surface gases on the order of 1⁄10,000 the amount of material in the Sun.

(This last was an affectionate gibe at the astronomical kind of counting Picasso himself indulges in when he wishes to indicate a sizable quantity of anything. He once said that one of his father's paintings of his modest Málaga pigeon cote showed it filled with "hundreds of pigeons — with thousands of pigeons — with thousands and millions of pigeons").

After reporting that Federal troops had confiscated 700 acres of his corn, 150 of his cattle and 400 of his hogs, a Southern planter sought permission to sell cotton to buy a sizable quantity of provisions to feed the hundred slaves wishing to remain on his plantation.

There will also be concern that the intelligence agencies were unable to acquire information of a detailed plot that appears to have required several people to carry out and perhaps a sizable quantity of explosives.

Quebec now exports sizable quantities of power to New York State and New England, while Ontario supplies the Great Lakes states.

China also buys sizable quantities of oil from Libya, although less than it buys from Saudi Arabia.

Sizable quantities of dust particles of uncertain composition are present as well.

Another alternative would be to open up access to "the still sizable quantities of the military uranium reserves from the USA and Russia especially after 2013".

The meteorite turns out to be a type known as carbonaceous chondrites, which contain sizable quantities of carbon and organic molecules.