Sentence examples for there were quantities from inspiring English sources

There were quantities of books to look at.

Prokhorov's reputation as the playboy of the Slavic world preceded him, and while some guests were disappointed at the lack of conspicuous concupiscence — one guest muttered about the absence of caviar being eaten off naked models — there were quantities of anonymous high-cheekboned lovelies in attendance.

There were quantities of large sculpture, of which most of the few surviving pieces are now in the British Museum.

Furthermore, it is the only Neolithic site where there were quantities of bovine bones, indicating that cattle were a major dietary component [23].

Apart from heavy metals such as lead and mercury, there are quantities of arsenic, beryllium, cadmium and gobs of polyvinyl chloride.

Apart from heavy metals such as lead and mercury, there are quantities of arsenic, beryllium, cadmium and polyvinyl chloride to be found.

In many parts of Indonesia there are quantities of megalithic monuments menhirs, dolmens, terraced burial mounds, stone skull troughs, and other objects.

Quantities such as displacement and velocity have this property (commutative law), but there are quantities (e.g., finite rotations in space) that do not and therefore are not vectors.

Of course, there are quantities naturally associated with some of these species.

At very least, there are quantities of motion implicit in Leibniz's mechanics — change in force and true speed — that are not merely relative; the folk reading is committed to Leibniz simply missing this obvious fact.

In other words, if there are more people willing to pay for a good than there are quantities of that good available, you'll have a shortage, and the price should go up.