Sentence examples for the formidable number from inspiring English sources

The bombing of London, Coventry, Liverpool, and other cities went on for several months, but it had the immediate benefit for the RAF of relieving the pressure on Number 11 Group and also bringing more German bomber formations into the sectors of the formidable Number 12 Group.

A common conundrum reported by all informants, for example, was the formidable number of test takers taking their tests every year, an issue which has been repeatedly raised by many testing researchers when discussing language testing in the Chinese context (see e.g., Cheng, 2008; Cheng and Curtis, 2010; Jin, 2010; Li, 1997).

Due to the formidable number of possible combinations (∼6000×6000/2) and the sparse nature of synthetic lethal interactions [5], the query genes are generally selected carefully, despite the fact that all genes are used as bait.

The floods submerged large swaths of the Czech Republic, leaving broad ribbons of destruction, including hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to the country's cultural fabric, though a formidable number of artworks were saved during the pandemonium.

At the Regina Mundi church in Soweto, there was standing room only at the 9am mass, as hundreds of worshippers and a formidable number of camera crews packed the aisles to hear Father Sebastian Rossouw describe Mandela as a guiding light for the nation.

It is also important that they are independent of specific values of p j. On the other hand, it cannot be entirely ruled out that a heretofore unknown gene (probe set) with the above-described peculiar features or a formidable number of negatively correlated gene pairs will emerge from future data sets.

Sure, it's a third of what Apple's App Store boasts, but it's a formidable number, and it shows that the store is growing quickly (that's 10,000 a month in the last three months).

Polls around the state in recent days have shown varied results, but have agreed on the main points: About three-fifths of the voters want Governor Davis out of office, a formidable number to overcome in such a short election.

Europe's competition regulator has told Universal Music that its £1.2bn bid to buy EMI faces a formidable number of hurdles to gain clearance – with the watchdog raising concern over the combined company's potential domination of The Voice and other TV shows, the price of digital music and dominance of its acts on radio and elsewhere.

There were "blue pills" and "white pills", and he alludes to a formidable number of casual sexual encounters that destroyed his first marriage to childhood sweetheart Mary Burgoyne, to his bitter regret.

They've since gone on to accumulate a 160-acre vineyard, a winery, an inn and a formidable number of awards.