adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/huge/enormous appetite
▪ By the time Ron was 16 he had an enormous appetite.
a considerable/large/enormous etc amount
▪ a considerable amount of money
a great/enormous/tremendous etc relief
▪ It was a great relief to him when she returned safely.
a huge/enormous variety
▪ Fruit is eaten by a huge variety of animals and birds.
a huge/enormous/vast sum
▪ The company has invested huge sums in research.
a huge/massive/enormous explosion
▪ An enormous explosion tore the roof off the building.
a vast/huge/enormous quantity
▪ Computers can handle vast quantities of data.
big/enormous etc ego
▪ Richard has the biggest ego thinks he is very clever and important of anyone I’ve ever met.
enormous faith
▪ Ford placed enormous faith in the new model.
enormous/considerable/incredible odds
▪ He survived a night in the cold water against incredible odds.
enormous/intense interest (=very great)
▪ This tournament has created enormous interest.
enormous/massive/gigantic etc proportions
▪ The company is heading towards a disaster of enormous proportions.
enormous/tremendous enthusiasm
▪ He always plays with tremendous enthusiasm.
enormous/tremendous/immense popularity
▪ the enormous popularity of Coca-Cola
great/considerable/enormous importance
▪ Crime rates have great importance for the government.
▪ Some people attach enormous importance to personal wealth.
great/considerable/enormous
▪ Staff experienced considerable stress as a result of the changes.
great/enormous strength
▪ Hercules was famous for his great strength.
great/enormous/considerable potential
▪ This is a team with great potential.
great/enormous/immense pleasure
▪ Steinbeck’s books have brought enormous pleasure to many people.
great/enormous/tremendous excitement
▪ There is great excitement about the Pope's visit.
▪ The news causes tremendous excitement.
great/huge/enormous
▪ The central banks have huge power.
grow to enormous etc proportions
▪ The fish grows to gigantic proportions.
huge/enormous/massive
▪ Industry has a huge impact on the environment we live in.
▪ The impact has been enormous on people's daily lives.
immense/enormous satisfaction (=very great)
▪ The victory gave him immense satisfaction.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ Competition for places in high status universities is so enormous that after-school attendance at expensive private crammer schools is virtually compulsory.
▪ Simply put, it is a means of generating internal power so enormous one can fell an opponent without actually touching him.
▪ I understood why the pyramids were so enormous and splendid, of course.
▪ The cost of this endeavor is so enormous that it seems most unlikely to happen.
▪ Today the cost of making theatre is so enormous it's become a new form of institutionalising.
▪ The mussels were so enormous I suspected they had some kind of overactive glandular condition.
▪ The implications were almost too enormous to contemplate. So enormous it couldn't possibly be true -could it?
▪ The thundering in her heart had grown so enormous that she would not have heard a thing had there been an earthquake.
■ NOUN
advantage
▪ This flexibility is an enormous advantage over one-off end-of-year examinations.
▪ This is a hefty shift away from the traditional model of motherhood, but it generates enormous advantages.
▪ But in the end it proved an enormous advantage.
▪ They have an enormous advantage in the strength of the yen and the size of their asset base.
amount
▪ We have an enormous amount of data stored on 9C computers nationwide.
▪ But what impressed me most was the enormous amount of sheer wasted space everywhere I happened to glance.
▪ I became obsessed with the whole idea and spent an enormous amount of time researching it.
▪ The enormous amount we have learned about male and female psychology simply has not been enough.
▪ I spend enormous amounts of time trying to develop this characteristic in my company.
▪ However there is now an enormous amount of experimental evidence in favour of it.
▪ The first is that enormous amounts of professional time and effort will be absorbed in explaining apparent differences between classes and schools.
▪ And this truly takes an enormous amount of time.
change
▪ Male speaker There've been such enormous changes.
▪ Above all, it alone can not fully control the enormous change of which it is a part.
▪ This seems to me to be an enormous change.
▪ Half a dozen good people in top positions can bring about enormous change.
▪ More broadly, there are the enormous changes of the past few years to reflect upon.
▪ Everything from commerce to entertainment to government is on the verge of enormous change, he adds.
▪ Government attitudes towards monetary policy have undergone enormous changes since 1945.
▪ But it is an uneasy calm, expectant of imminent, enormous change.
cost
▪ The enormous cost of engineering the lines ensured that little money was left for the stations.
▪ The hangup here is the enormous cost.
▪ Without the enormous costs run up by the Royal Navy vessel, the Yard would have made profits of £6.5m.
▪ Conservation measures of this kind help to explain the enormous cost of both wetland and underwater archaeology.
▪ There is an enormous cost in terms of both human tragedy and the economic implications, through days lost through sickness and ill health.
▪ Work had already started on the bridge when the error was spotted and it had to be raised at enormous cost.
▪ The enormous cost of contested libel actions means that most plaintiffs will need financial support from unions or employers.
difference
▪ It is also true that responses are a function of enormous differences between and within individuals.
▪ As with any complex electronic information system or service, a strong support structure can make an enormous difference in customer satisfaction.
▪ Litigation itself brings them face to face with the enormous differences between the theory and practice of law.
▪ About fifteen minutes a day for a week or two usually makes an enormous difference.
▪ There is an enormous difference in the child-mortality figures.
▪ Creating a mentor relationship with a child from this back-ground can make an enormous difference in his life.
▪ It's made an enormous difference to the way I go about my work.
▪ This makes for an enormous difference.
difficulty
▪ These and the other changes presented enormous difficulties in the immediate post-war years.
▪ We have had enormous difficulties in enforcing our authority....
▪ Even that would cause enormous difficulties.
▪ This means that either President Bush or President Gore would have enormous difficulty getting his showcase campaign proposals through the legislature.
▪ There were enormous difficulties, equally, in the sphere of cultural policy and minority rights.
effort
▪ She had returned to bed and Belinda could see that she was making an enormous effort to remain calm.
▪ The same freedom from job limits that unleashes enormous effort also encourages people to overextend themselves.
▪ Only the tightly clenched line of her jawbone revealed the enormous effort it was taking her just to stand upright.
▪ It is perhaps not fortuitous that Stein made the enormous effort to revive the publication when he did.
▪ Then, with an enormous effort of will, he followed them.
▪ But no one denies that it will take enormous effort to keep her stimulated and well.
▪ This change led to an enormous effort to begin active treatment in the neonatal period for virtually all infants with this condition.
growth
▪ Social class inequalities, however, remain as strong as ever despite the enormous growth in education provision and expenditure.
▪ This change would not have been possible without the enormous growth of towns.
▪ This is reflected in the enormous growth of micro usage in these areas and especially in the field of robotics.
▪ As a result, the Internet is seeing enormous growth in the number of people and businesses using its services.
▪ The extent of economic globalisation is illustrated by the recent enormous growth in trade and foreign capital flows.
▪ They reveal an enormous growth in this sector.
▪ So nitrate from the enormous growth in artificial fertiliser applications is rapidly leached away.
▪ It is also a fact that the party has seen enormous growth in the polls lately.
impact
▪ Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.
▪ Christine's campaign has had enormous impact and we are proud that our report of it has had some impact too.
▪ Either Mrs David has had an enormous impact on her countrymen or a major paradigm shift has occurred.
▪ Both have had an enormous impact on me as a teacher.
▪ When supercontinents break apart, they have an enormous impact on the volume of water the global oceans can hold.
▪ Clearly, the publication of the General Theory in 1936 had an enormous impact on both economic theory and policy-making.
▪ The fate of Father Damien in Hawaii had an enormous impact on Western thinking about leprosy.
importance
▪ Of enormous importance, Holmes: all the hopes of modern medicine depend upon it.
▪ First impressions are of enormous importance.
▪ We should by now have demonstrated to your satisfaction the enormous importance of the process of settlement.
▪ It is no exaggeration to say that these three introductions were of enormous importance to the future of the Army.
▪ And this good nature has its own enormous importance.
▪ Like him, I attach enormous importance to humanities research.
▪ However the necessary skills within the body language component are also of enormous importance.
increase
▪ In the early 1970s the concern was with the enormous increase in planning applications and planning appeals.
▪ The rates for men showed enormous increases while those for women remained stable or rose very slowly.
▪ In recent years there has been an enormous increase in the range and complexity of capital market instruments.
▪ First, there has been an enormous increase in the pressure on the parks.
▪ So the election produced an enormous increase in at least minimal awareness of local candidates.
▪ There had been an enormous increase in the accuracy and destructiveness of all munitions, owing to the introduction of information technologies.
▪ And the abiding memory of the eighties must be of the greatest achievement, the enormous increase in passenger traffic.
▪ The enormous increase in broadcast hours is easy enough to observe.
influence
▪ Culturally dominant and playing a pervasive role in the everyday life of élite and masses alike, it wielded enormous influence.
▪ Avoidance of injury will have an enormous influence on the success of the tour.
▪ Compared to this enormous influence of personal prejudice the influence of the media on economic perceptions was small but none the less significant.
interest
▪ The implications of the work at Wharram Percy are of enormous interest for our understanding of how settlements and the landscape developed.
▪ Firstly, the results of their work are of enormous interest in themselves.
number
▪ IIC.4 An enormous number of booklists was supplied.
▪ Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.
▪ I produce an enormous number of drafts of my stories, that is important.
▪ We will still be left with an enormous number of kids who will not get the coverage they should have.
▪ That 90 percent of women are afraid to go out alone at night represents enormous numbers of journeys avoided and trips foregone.
▪ But an enormous number of homosexuals have clearly been recruited from the ranks of the physically normal.
▪ Boxers fought an enormous number of contests by modern standards to satisfy a working-class public who wanted to see regular bouts.
▪ It has enormous numbers of poor people and enormous numbers attaining some wealth.
numbers
▪ That 90 percent of women are afraid to go out alone at night represents enormous numbers of journeys avoided and trips foregone.
▪ Employers have the clearest and most direct channels of communication to enormous numbers of people.
▪ And the unhappy customer base stayed loyal in enormous numbers so that the company is now reaping the benefit.
▪ It has enormous numbers of poor people and enormous numbers attaining some wealth.
▪ In the case of bacteria, the enormous numbers of cells produced by successive doublings go their separate ways.
▪ It has enormous numbers of poor people and enormous numbers attaining some wealth.
▪ One view of the future of work is that large firms will not employ the enormous numbers of people they employ today.
▪ Of course, some political awareness had begun to reach the airline industry, with its enormous numbers of women employees.
popularity
▪ In spite of her enormous popularity and the huge attraction she held for men throughout her life she remained incredibly insecure.
▪ The Columbia program was enjoying enormous popularity because it offered the widest possible latitude both in studies and in its entrance requirements.
▪ In the West its enormous popularity was as a love story set against the epic background of the Revolution and its aftermath.
▪ These are all reasons for Schiffer's enormous popularity.
▪ Rawlings's friends and foes alike say he survived only because of the enormous popularity with which he began his rule.
▪ The museum authorities wanted the work removed after the filming was completed despite the statue's enormous popularity.
▪ These, as they appeared one by one in the pages of the Strand Magazine, attracted enormous popularity.
potential
▪ It's a lively and cosmopolitan resort, which as well as being scenic, offers enormous potential to the sports enthusiast.
▪ The new generation of telecommunications holds enormous potential to serve the needs of democracy.
▪ It will be appreciated that this technique of automated teaching seemed to have enormous potential.
▪ It is a world unexplored by many-a new frontier in contemporary gastronomy with enormous potential.
▪ A client of enormous potential if he managed to hook him.
▪ This is largely because of its enormous potential for dating geological processes and sedimentary sequences.
▪ Yet a walk into any delicatessen or a continental charcuterie will prove the enormous potential of this vastly underrated animal.
▪ Assistant Principal, Joe Mooney sees enormous potential for the open learning format with foreign students.
power
▪ These developments concentrated enormous power in the hands of the individual on the throne.
▪ And individuals with the ability to manipulate what is written about a public person have enormous power.
▪ Modern technology is now so sophisticated the microprocessor-based design of the teleprinter gives it enormous power and flexibility.
▪ The tail of the whale is a thing of beauty, grace and enormous power, Ishmael says.
▪ Above all, covetousness has enormous power and potential to destroy.
▪ Though the central banks wield enormous power, we should not overstate their ability to shape the economy in the long run.
▪ The Duke of Marlborough wielded enormous power in the county.
▪ This insight taught me something about the enormous power that is generated by desiring something very much.
pressure
▪ This puts enormous pressures on staff, who don't always have enough time to do the stock checking.
▪ Parallel to the enormous pressure toward slimness runs the advertising of powerful interests who want to sell food.
▪ All the universities today are under enormous pressure financially.
▪ For some time now, the smokers of the world have been submitted to enormous pressure regarding their habit.
▪ Pupils and staff were under enormous pressure.
▪ This new and expanded role for employees will exert enormous pressures on employees and companies alike to invest in education and retraining.
▪ Ironically, this new scientific perspective comes when young children and parents are under enormous pressure.
▪ This puts enormous pressure on smaller practices'.
problem
▪ This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources, especially in the rural areas of those countries.
▪ Feather pecking can be an enormous problem in all husbandry systems.
▪ However, enormous problems remained: inflation remained high, unemployment was rising and many areas of production were at a standstill.
▪ The proposed method of operation for the benefits system will cause enormous problems for families.
▪ Up to the last minute the enormous problems of ammunition supply to the guns had not been overcome.
▪ The Government keep changing the rules of the game, which creates enormous problems for local authorities.
▪ The sheer timing would also have been an enormous problem.
▪ This causes enormous problems, as the Q.A.L.Y. is so widely accepted, in trying to show that rehabilitation is a benefit.
quantity
▪ We also had with us an immensely heavy steel strongbox which contained enormous quantities of devalued lire.
▪ The manufacture of aluminum as a commercial product requires enormous quantities of electric power.
▪ He dumped an enormous quantity on top of the cereal which covered Rostov's plate.
▪ Ten thousand birds and an equal number of chicks constitute an enormous quantity of meat.
▪ He could hold in his motions for two weeks and then would pass an enormous quantity under great strain and pain.
▪ I learned enormous quantities to say to myself in bed at night.
range
▪ There is an enormous range of colours available, from bright reds and yellows, through buffs and browns, to purplish-black.
▪ You had to have an enormous range of talent, and the ability to make a joke about virtually anything.
▪ An adapted television set and an ordinary telephone line link the Prestel customer to an enormous range of computer-held information.
▪ Notice that the three forms of power described cover an enormous range of processes.
▪ In contrast, certain tropical peoples grow an enormous range of plant species.
▪ The kitchen was lovely, with an enormous range and an old-fashioned red-brick floor.
▪ Three parallel conferences covering an enormous range of art historical material take place this year.
▪ They cover an enormous range of religious, social, academic, political and cultural interests.
success
▪ His first response to the enormous success of Tubular Bells was to undergo a minor nervous breakdown.
▪ The march has been an enormous success.
▪ The meeting was an enormous success.
▪ From No. v on it was an enormous success, and inaugurated monthly shilling numbers as a method of publishing new fiction.
▪ The Soviet season, for example, was an enormous success.
sum
▪ Virtually all Third World countries were Spending enormous sums on war or preparation for war, despite staggering debts and dreadful poverty.
▪ Lawyers are really expert at making you pay enormous sums for their advice.
variety
▪ Besides these there is an enormous variety of miscellaneous applications ranging from architectural models through elegant furniture to engineering components.
▪ There is enormous variety to this public-interest assignment.
▪ Among the enormous varieties of weaving patterns, there are two that we must pay particular attention to.
▪ Upon the balance between them depends the enormous variety of societies seen in the animal kingdom.
▪ Within each river there are an enormous variety of habitats and this causes fish populations to assume highly localised distributions.
▪ Three basic pieces of equipment will enable you to perform an enormous variety of exercises to improve your physique or figure.
▪ Over that time, it must have been cooked in an enormous variety of ways.
▪ Take advantage of the enormous variety of fruit now to be found in the shops.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
huge/enormous great
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ He has an enormous amount of work to finish before Friday.
▪ Their house is enormous.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ In the tenth century the number of houses was still relatively modest, the distances not enormous.
▪ It gives you enormous mood swings, which nobody told me about.
▪ Talk is of enormous relevance in understanding status and in developing your own powers of influence.
▪ The conceptual problems of such a model are enormous.
▪ The passive smoking issue holds enormous fears for the tobacco industry.
▪ The properties of meteorites tell us an enormous amount about the properties of asteroids.
▪ The River was an enormous and immediate popular and critical success.
▪ Unfortunately the book was completed too soon to reflect the enormous impact of fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry on biology.