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‘A number can be large.’

[⟨det number.n⟩ large.a]

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In the British National Corpus:

The Old Testament at various places records numbers which seem impossibly large.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

For some reason, every time I get to the last little spot where I have to pollinate a plant to access the part of the garden where that fourth spectra is, the little pollen orbs don’t seem to show up in numbers large enough to allow me to pop up the plant I need.
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In Wikipedia:

The number in the clutch is often very large, but seven or eight white spotted red eggs are normal, with bigger clutches being laid by two or even more hens.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

With a number as large as 432 seats left without any eligible candidate this year, which is almost equivalent to three and a half IIT’ s neither the students nor the faculty members are satisfied of the new criteria of admission as well as the storming issue of reservations.
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In the British National Corpus:

On any move, the chance that it might turn through one angle is large if the number for that angle is large in comparison to the numbers for other angles.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The best current upper bound was found by Timothy Gowers. * [Here, V (r, k) just means the same as n (r, k)] The actual value of n (2,3) is known to be 9, but the formula above gives us a number so large that I don’t even have the tools to calculate it.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Throughout history, and even still today, debate has sparked over the actual number of men Xerxes army numbered, because of the lack of realism and level of reality behind the figure given from Herodotus, it is so hard to believe that a force so large could have been held off by a force so minute, It is said by Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who wrote the first history of this war, the size of Xerxes army numbered 2,641,610 of which 517,610 where of the fleet crew, 1,700,000 infantry, 80,000 Calvary, 20,000 Arabs and Libyans, 324,000 Greek troops allied with Persia [5], numbers so large, would have been impossible to move, however, Herodotus also tells us that this figure nearly doubles when you account for support troops and thus reports of a Persian force numbering 5,283,220 men, a figure that seemed out of this world by modern estimations, the poet Simonides, talks of about 4,000,000, and Cnidus and Artaxerxes the 2 nd? wrote a history of Persia about a century later which had not survived, but gave estimations of about 800,000 as Xerxes total army after crossing the Hellespont. [6] Furthering on Modern scholars have given different estimates based on knowledge of the Persian military systems, and some estimations tend to consider that the figures given in the ancient texts as miscalculations or exaggerations on the part of the victors, modern estimations however, range from 100,000 to 400,000 which seem more realistic, however, based on the movie, which gave an idea of the amount of men, numbering in the millions, just seems to far fetched and impossible / high unlikely based on a number of aspects, like shelter, food, moving a number so large over such a vast area of land, which are all highly probable factors, that where not portrayed in the movie.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I once knew people who had so many turtles and tortoise they couldn’t see straight, with numbers so large that it was a detriment to their pets.
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In Wikipedia:

In the years that followed, the number of would – be competitors grew so large that qualifying stages had to be arranged at county and provincial level.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

To comprehend a number this large, bear in mind that the population of the United States is about to 295,000,000.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

In the other Middle colonies the number was doubtless not so large; but it formed a considerable part of the population.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

To think that these gorgeous animals are hiding in plain sight, in numbers so large that they have effectively tripled the previous estimates of lowland gorillas remaining on earth, gives me so much hope.
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In Wikipedia:

Another error in Silesian record – keeping states that Glogowek, still a fairly small town, as 12 official representatives, a number much too large for a city of that size.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The answer to that fatal question? 12, a number too large for Bolduc to count on the fingers of both hands? will be enough to nearly shatter the boy’s still – forming psyche, said child psychology expert Eli Wasserbaum.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The swarm principle encourages activists to move into and around St. Paul in groups of various size and attack like bees or fire ants? in numbers large enough to overwhelm authorities at a specific location.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

That number should be large enough that even the most ardent domestic distribution fan would throw up there hands and say “You get to sell what we build, and we only build what will sell in volume “No one sees a car that they would not own, though some may be told the exact model feature combination does not exist.
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

They are obliged to prevent their followers from starving to death in numbers large enough to be inconvenient, and they are obliged to remain at the same low level of military technique as their rivals; but once that minimum is achieved, they can twist reality into whatever shape they chose.”
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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Thus many Catholics complain about the dearth of priests, all the while ignoring their own responsibility for that outcome? the fact that few have children in numbers large enough to send one son to the priesthood while the others marry and carry on the family name.
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In Wikipedia:

However, after an opening, without further ceremony, both press and public were lyrical about the very authentic looking scenes and creative technical finds and at the end of the season 222,941 people had visited the park, a number large enough to ensure that the park would certainly become profitable after an investment of about a million guilders.
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Queried on 2013-05-25.