Sentence examples for terrible number of from inspiring English sources

The marines had shot a terrible number of Iraqis that day — maybe two dozen in all.

The marines had shot a terrible number of Iraqis that day maybe two dozen in all.

The following afternoon I was walking with him in one of the eerily beautiful cemeteries maintained by the War Graves Commission where the air of tranquillity given by the clean headstones and neat jars of flowers is threatened only by the terrible number of graves.

Your article mentioned the terrible number of traffic accidents and fatalities that result from drivers falling asleep at the wheel.

I've seen plenty of people swerving because of texting – one guy I saw was on his old, ratty Nokia rolling from lane to lane as he texted whoever was most important in his life while traveling 75MPH on I75 in Ohio – and this PSA really shows what can, and probably will happen, in a terrible number of texting-while-driving cases.

Charlie Lloyd, from London Cycling Campaign, who is a former lorry driver, said: "Our Safer Urban Lorry design is a challenge to the construction industry to use vehicles that help reduce the terrible number of people on bikes and on foot who are killed by lorries.

Its 20 dancers are united in a keening, spiralling chorus of loss, accompanied by the recorded voices in Andy Cowton's score that recite the terrible numbers of the dead.

Harris and frat bros who wear fishing clothes as real clothes actually boasts a not-terrible number of craft distilleries (ten!).

February's pending home sales report is due Tuesday, but even a terrible number would not come as much of a shock to a market that has grown accustomed to bad news on the housing front.

At first glance that is a terrible number.

21,000 is a terrible number.