Synonyms for A Large Number Of (other words and phrases for A Large Number Of). good amount of. heaps of. n. # informal. huge quantities of. loads of. n. # informal. Los Angeles. English, U.S. Aug 12, 2007. #2. I was taught to use "number" to refer to things that can be counted, and "amount" to refer to things that cannot be counted. "We have a large number of people working in the office." "We're having a business lunch in the office. I ordered a large amount of food for the lunch." reaching political decisions and a large number of studies, some of which have controversial conclusions. As has been shown in a large number of studies, the rules of origin are a necessary condition for access to trade preferences. whereas a large number of studies have shown that there are approximately EUR 900 billion per year of illicit The amount of apples in the warehouse is large. (Amount is singular) The 100 apples you have there are in a large pile. (100 separate things are) 100 is a large number (it's not 100 "ones," it's one thing named "100"). The number 100 is large (again, a number is singular, no matter how high the count). The orchestra (it) sounds great. The original sentence was "A large quantity of books is/are interesting". I suggest that there is a subtle difference between quantity and number. A quantity is, to me, a singular thing, whereas a number (although I concede it has 'a' in front of it) can be seen as plural. If we are going to talk about number, then I agree we can say "A number 1. In the American English usage that I am familiar with, when you are using "massive" with a singular noun or a plural, it will always mean "large" or "heavy". For example, Massive cat (Large or heavy cat) Massive cats (Multiple cats, and each individual cat is large or heavy) However, if the noun is a singular noun that refers to a group RWaGvjJ. Generally you'd use amount to describe an uncountable quantity, and number to describe a countable quantity. You might have a large amount of water (but not a large number of water), or a large number of bottles (but not a large amount of bottles). This is why describing an "amount of men" sounds odd, but why a "number of men" is OK. Express Quantity in English for Beginning Speakers. There are many phrases used to express quantities and amounts in English. In general, "much" and "many" are the standard quantifiers used to express large quantities. Which expression you use will often depend on whether the noun is countable or uncountable, and whether the sentence is Growth at 20% becomes harder to maintain at $200 billion than it is at $2 billion, generally, because of the large amounts of capital implied at each level. 20% growth of $200 billion would require at least $40 billion of additional revenues (assuming a 100% profit margin), while that same 20% growth rate on $2 billion would need factors of ten Using IN with a large parameter set on a large list of records will in fact be slow. In the case that I solved recently I had two where clauses, one with 2,50 parameters and the other with 3,500 parameters, querying a table of 40 Million records. My query took 5 minutes using the standard WHERE IN. Which is quite fast. Speed test for the above: Generating 100000 Random Numbers C rand (): 1.72661 C++ random: 6.60626 hash random: 1.034. Los Angeles. English, U.S. Aug 12, 2007. #2. I was taught to use "number" to refer to things that can be counted, and "amount" to refer to things that cannot be counted. "We have a large number of people working in the office." "We're having a business lunch in the office. I ordered a large amount of food for the lunch."

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