What is "excessive number"

Usage examples of "excessive number".

The excessive number of aircars above Lothara, official and civil, flying at distressing proximity, necessitated my retreat behind the curtain.

But in this case, in which during so many consecutive generations 100 years are added in one manuscript where they are not reckoned in the other, and then, after the birth of the son and successor, the years which were wanting are added, it is obvious that the copyist who contrived this arrangement designed to insinuate that the antediluvians lived an excessive number of years only because each year was excessively brief, and that he tried to draw the attention to this fact by his statement of their age of puberty at which they became able to beget children.

He ran up some bills, but not many, ordered suits at various tailors patronized by his hosts, but not an excessive number, and in the end was discovered to be a complete fraud, a Cockney sailor off the Cunard Line who had mastered his accent studying Ronald Colman movies while his ship plied the Atlantic.

As were the supplies you sent to the prophet, and the excessive number of golds you received In return.

Approaching, the jaguar lowered its head and commenced a thorough olfactory inspection of this unprecedented prowler, beginning at the excessive number of limbs and working its way upward.

Approaching, the jaguar lowered its head and com-menced a thorough olfactory inspection of this unprece-dented prowler, beginning at the excessive number of limbs and working its way upward.

He had told himself there had been no need to make an excessive number of trips from London to Hampshire.

There was not much to see that would show up telephoto shots, just busy and crowded streets, but if you looked closely you could see that there had been an excessive number of automobile accidents.

It did seem an excessive number of men to handle the occasional drunken brawl on market day and to make sure arguments between neighbors were brought before the magistrate instead of having something small escalate through acts of petty vengeance into violence.

I washed my hair in cold water, shivering, and jumped out of the shower to wrap up in an excessive number of towels.

The politics of the ancient Greeks incessantly complain of the inconveniences attending a republic, from the excessive number of citizens.

For example, these people utilize an excessive number of verbs to convey very simple concepts.

With that in mind, there would seem to be an excessive number of personnel on duty here.