Sentence examples for very substantial numbers from inspiring English sources

"This cartel affected very substantial numbers of road hauliers in Europe," Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition commissioner, said.

The difficult conclusion must be that neither burden-sharing nor diplomacy will end this crisis, that migrants will continue to come in very substantial numbers, and Europe will continue to blunder along, torn between concern about their suffering and fears about a future different from the one we had until now imagined.

Some of this, presumably, has to do with the attempt to attract blacks, who despite their very substantial numbers in New York's population were disappointingly underrepresented at concerts honoring such giants as Ethel Waters and Wes Montgomery.

There are very substantial numbers of young Iranians who actually like the Western way of life and would prefer to get out from under the existing oppressive form of governance.

However, we note that the chosen databases present very substantial numbers of unique ESTs.

Third, perhaps the most important finding from Abbo's work is that despite the considerable growth in the awareness of biomedical perspectives on mental illness and the evidence base on the effectiveness of biomedical treatments, very substantial numbers of people with a mental illness continue to seek help from the traditional sector.

But it requires a very substantial number of victories to quell the dissent and there is very little margin for losing streaks when the football's like this.

The prime minister told the Commons that a "very substantial" number of the extra US troops would be going to Helmand to assist British forces in dealing with Taliban insurgents.

However, IE9 will not be available for the millions of people still using Windows XP – which includes a very substantial number in the Far East who will have pirated copies of XP and are likely to be using outdated copies of IE6, which Microsoft is publicly asking people to stop using.

It included the charge that the company "put out public statements that it knew to be false", that it had "deliberately deceived the police" and had destroyed evidence of wrongdoing including "a very substantial number of emails" as well as computers.

The Norman Conquest and a period in which French was the language of the ruling class in England effected great changes on English and contributed a very substantial number of French words to English vocabulary hence the quantity of near synonymous pairs available today: begin, commence; end, finish; kingly, royal; fight, combat; and so on.