adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/great/huge risk
▪ There is a great risk that the wound will become infected.
a big/great/massive/huge advantage
▪ It’s a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish.
a big/huge bill
▪ Turn off the lights or we’ll get a huge electricity bill.
a big/huge etc grin
▪ He walked towards me with a big grin.
a big/huge panic
▪ There was a big panic about the virus last year.
a big/huge profit
▪ Drug companies make huge profits.
a big/huge/enormous appetite
▪ By the time Ron was 16 he had an enormous appetite.
a big/huge/major success
▪ The government claimed the policy was a major success.
a big/huge/massive argument
▪ There was a big argument about whether we should move to a new house.
a big/huge/massive fan
▪ Elizabeth is a massive fan of Elton John.
a big/large/huge crowd
▪ A big crowd is expected tomorrow for the final match.
a big/major/huge difference
▪ I think you’ll notice a big difference.
a big/major/huge/tremendous challenge
▪ Building the tunnel presented a major challenge to engineers.
a big/major/massive/huge investment
▪ Developing a new computer system is always a big investment for any organisation.
a great/huge demand (=very big)
▪ There is a huge demand for business software and services.
a great/huge/massive expansion (=very big)
▪ There are plans for a massive expansion of the oil and gas industries.
a (huge) box office hit/success
a huge contribution
▪ This player has made a huge contribution to our club.
a huge embarrassment (=very big or severe)
▪ If the story is true, it could prove a huge embarrassment to the star.
a huge gamble
▪ Giving him the job seemed like a huge gamble at the time.
a huge majority (=a very big majority)
▪ Gone are the days of huge majorities and easy victories.
a huge margin (=a very big one)
▪ They won the championship by a huge margin.
a huge row
▪ They had a huge row when he got back home early yesterday.
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/great/big sigh
▪ She heaved a great sigh.
a huge/massive demonstration (=very big)
▪ a series of massive demonstrations against the war
a huge/massive study
▪ The journal published the results of a massive study of 87,000 women.
a huge/massive/enormous explosion
▪ An enormous explosion tore the roof off the building.
a huge/monumental error (=very serious)
▪ It was a monumental error to attack from the north.
a huge/substantial etc gap
▪ A huge gap exists between the life styles of the rich and the poor.
a huge/vast/immense fortune
▪ Timothy was the heir to a vast fortune.
a large/great/huge/vast range
▪ A vast range of plants are used in medicines.
a large/huge etc audience
▪ Messages posted on the Internet can attract a huge audience.
a large/huge/massive rally
▪ Several large rallies were held in December.
a large/vast/huge empire
▪ The emperor Claudius ruled a vast empire stretching from Persia to Britain.
a large/vast/huge empire
▪ He created a vast financial empire worth billions of dollars.
a vast/huge number (=very large)
▪ We’ve had a huge number of complaints.
a vast/huge/enormous quantity
▪ Computers can handle vast quantities of data.
at great/huge/considerable/vast expense (=used when saying that something costs a lot of money)
▪ The tiles were imported at great expense from Italy.
▪ Recently, and at vast expense to the taxpayer, the bridge was rebuilt.
great/huge/deep disappointment
▪ There was great disappointment when we lost the game.
great/huge/enormous
▪ The central banks have huge power.
huge (=very big)
▪ Young people often leave university with huge debts.
huge/enormous/massive
▪ Industry has a huge impact on the environment we live in.
▪ The impact has been enormous on people's daily lives.
huge/massive (=very big)
▪ The recession left the Government with a massive deficit.
huge/massive (=very big)
▪ There was a huge increase in emigration after the war.
huge/massive
▪ The result was a huge rise in unemployment.
massive/great/huge etc influx
▪ a large influx of tourists in the summer
massive/huge
▪ Dean shrugged his massive shoulders.
on a massive/huge scale
▪ The drug is produced on a massive scale.
quantum/great/huge etc leap
▪ a quantum leap very great increase or change in population levels
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
▪ How do they make it look so huge inside?
▪ I was amazed that some one so huge could be so quick on stairs.
▪ His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation.
▪ The number was so huge, books were begging for San Diego money.
▪ The cavern was so huge that Benny thought they must have hollowed out the entire mountain.
▪ I had been here before but it had never looked so huge.
▪ How could any man be so huge and powerful in the flesh?
▪ We never experience the full impact of storms such as this, and Carewscourt is so huge.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ They have become smaller, faster and able to store huge amounts of data.
▪ For this reason and no other, Gates is spending huge amounts of money to defend itself from a potentially catastrophic judgment.
▪ He claimed that Hunt, with others, laundered a huge amount through Geneva bank accounts.
▪ This seemingly small increase could pump huge amounts of extra energy into storm systems.
▪ Mana put a huge amount of money into their boot and binding, but it flopped in the market.
▪ Then I realized that there were already huge amounts of synthetic ecology in Biosphere One.
▪ I hope they realise by being here we will bring in a huge amount of trade.
▪ The most effective destroyers of drugs are ordinary enzymes made in huge amounts by resistant strains.
crowd
▪ It attracts huge crowds to exhibitions and fetches high prices at auctions in New York, London and Paris.
▪ Stores all over Paris were mobbed Friday, with huge crowds massing outside stores even before opening time.
▪ The huge crowd spontaneously broke into applause.
▪ There was a huge crowd there.
▪ Today, huge crowds gathered to watch John and girlfriend Jill Morrell launch their new book in Oxford.
▪ Then a day after being called up he picks up his first-ever win in front of a huge crowd.
▪ Royal Ascot would otherwise not be able to go ahead next Tuesday unless huge crowd restrictions were introduced.
▪ Today, the race attracts huge crowds ... and raises money for local charities.
debt
▪ The Belfast company had huge debts and was on the brink of collapse.
▪ This has resulted in huge profits for the wholesalers and huge debts for the utilities.
▪ The company has huge debts relative to its size - the most recent available figures show Sock Shop's gearing was 200 percent.
▪ For more than a decade, the farming kibbutz where Avishi Grossman spent his life has struggled under a huge debt.
▪ You could end up being worse off, with huge debts on top of being jobless.
▪ From its exports it can earn foreign currency, and begin to pay off its huge debts.
▪ But the depressed market has caused the company to build up huge debts.
demand
▪ They had backed up huge demands for cost of living allowances and then found that they had to find the money.
▪ And the rapidly expanding public school system itself created a huge demand for teachers.
▪ Inevitably this level of prescription will produce a huge demand for information.
▪ A huge demands for apartments pushed vacancy rates down to the 1 to 2 percent level.
▪ The spread of multimedia is bound to create a huge demand for peripheral equipment of all sorts.
▪ Before the stock-market crash, shares in Control Securities were in huge demand.
▪ There is huge demand for it, and the evidence shows consumers are willing to pay a premium.
difference
▪ For both children modern gadgets like these make a huge difference when it comes to learning about the world around them.
▪ A: The stuff on the Internet side of your modem can make for huge differences in speed.
▪ This rate varies from lender to lender and can make a huge difference to the overall cost of your loan.
▪ The sense of fear makes a huge difference.
▪ Despite the huge differences in cost, few borrowers ever make an effort to switch their mortgage to a cheaper lender.
▪ Now it has thawed again, and there is a huge difference.
▪ Some parts of the motorway have had lights installed, making a huge difference to visibility.
▪ Moving the speakers as little as an inch or two forward or backward can make a huge difference.
gap
▪ But huge gaps in information remain.
▪ There was a huge gap between aim and achievement in the Carter administration.
▪ Foreign and company ownership often leaves a huge gap between boss and keeper and the traditions.
▪ There is a huge gap in organizing the employer community in the United States.
▪ Indeed, the appearance of Lonsdale's book reveals and at once remedies a huge gap in the study of women writers.
▪ As a consequence, this junction in the rocks represents a huge gap in the record.
▪ But then Wigan underlined the huge gap in class.
▪ That's a huge gap, and to me it's an argument for creating a unified opposition.
hit
▪ One brand new product that seems to have scored a huge hit at the recent MacWorld show is Adobe's Illustrator.
increase
▪ In 1921, there was a huge increase in the emigration and physical extinction of households.
▪ We can point to your huge increase in military spending and then continue on with our own.
▪ This had resulted in a growth in the number of homes and a huge increase in the bill to the Exchequer.
▪ Tellingly, huge increases in those behaviors were all launched at around the same time, the era of Woodstock and Stonewall.
▪ One forecasts a huge increase in the ever-escalating costs of the Trident programme.
▪ This was a huge increase compared with the 4,000 tonnes imported in 1981.
▪ For example, the huge increase in the number of motor vehicles has led to a massive increase in auto-crimes.
▪ That would make a mockery of the Kyoto protocol: instead of cuts, it could lead to huge increases of emissions.
loss
▪ On the evidence of the Test series in May and now this, he will be a huge loss.
▪ The bank has been trying to write off huge losses from its CornerStone credit card over several recent quarters.
▪ All that followed was a rash of rights issues which have left shareholders nursing huge losses.
▪ Last month, the company announced huge losses and major layoffs in the face of faltering stock prices.
▪ The bank began to record huge losses-and to fiddle its accounts to disguise them.
▪ The numbers are small but they added up to a huge loss for Gramm because he had made it a must-win state.
▪ A memo by the local government minister, Hilary Armstrong, admitted that Labour faced huge losses.
▪ Like many corporations, Hewlett-Packard also guards against wild currency swings and huge losses on overseas deals by using cautious trading strategies.
number
▪ Nyarko now joins the huge number of players Everton boss Smith must do without.
▪ People of both sexes and from all walks of life sent letters and signed petitions in huge numbers.
▪ Around 700 jobs have been created, which in a labour market of less than 14,000 is a huge number.
▪ This depends on a huge number of different receptor proteins, each tuned to a different sort of chemical stimulus.
▪ Global warming will deeply affect poor countries, leading to huge numbers of refugees, crop failures, and extreme weather.
▪ Do they gather in such huge numbers to learn from each other the whereabouts of the best food sources?
▪ One useful source was the huge number of glossy magazines about money that had proliferated as the yuppy decade ran its course.
▪ There were certainly forget-me-nots, violets, white wood anemones, huge numbers of dandelions and some buttercups.
numbers
▪ Opposite One of the natural wonders of the world, the Grand Canyon attracts huge numbers of tourists to Arizona.
▪ There was no reason to leave huge numbers around.
▪ Accordingly all over the agricultural world sun gods were created in huge numbers.
▪ Hardly a day goes by without news of some corporation shedding huge numbers of workers in the name of productivity.
▪ These flats are home to huge numbers of ghost shrimps, a popular bait item which supports a small but expanding fishery.
▪ People of both sexes and from all walks of life sent letters and signed petitions in huge numbers.
▪ A spokesman for Littlewoods said the service was aimed toward users with a need to process huge numbers of documents.
▪ There were certainly forget-me-nots, violets, white wood anemones, huge numbers of dandelions and some buttercups.
profit
▪ For the sake of a handful of people making huge profits the entire planet has been put in jeopardy.
▪ The mortgage trader who could predict the behavior of the homeowners made huge profits.
▪ They were so cheap that, even with the cost of smuggling them west, Kurzlinger could make a huge profit.
▪ Chan became successful at investing and was making huge profits within several months.
▪ They sold low-price share options - and pocketed huge profits as City prices soared.
▪ In our opinion, what we are seeing in the industry is the unwinding of huge profits.
▪ This simple notion can make huge profits.
▪ And she has been criticized for reaping huge profits in commodities trading.
quantity
▪ We are constantly faced with such hidden confusions in huge quantities.
▪ Ice itself, a luxury in the field, was made in huge quantities by machine.
▪ These custom-built vessels have been designed to catch only tuna - in huge quantities.
▪ Damming rivers meant forming reservoirs, and in the heat and dryness of California, reservoirs would evaporate huge quantities of water.
▪ He got clients into his grip and pressed them to buy shares in huge quantities.
▪ What will help is a treaty removing huge quantities of chemical weapons that could otherwise be used against us.
▪ All we got was a small discount because we bought such a huge quantity.
▪ There were huge quantities of them, and I ended up filling three vases and a couple of Stuart's beer-mugs.
range
▪ Hotels and how we grade them Enterprise has a huge range of hotels with something to suit all tastes and budgets.
▪ Versions are available on a huge range of hardware, and the file formats are interchangeable.
▪ He disarmingly admitted his lack of preparation for the huge range of problems with which he had to grapple.
▪ It was hung with pots and pans, and a huge range was slowly burning coal.
▪ Both products do calculations and supply a huge range of built in statistical and engineering functions.
▪ Dylan's voice has always been his greatest asset, carrying a huge range of emotions.
▪ They come in a huge range of colours and designs, often with matching inserts and border tiles.
scale
▪ I think the huge scale massacre of pheasants is revolting.
▪ Other artists have created even more literal images, on a huge scale.
▪ As recent work indicated. it too was redeveloped within its older Roman walls on a huge scale in late Saxon times.
▪ Theirs are played out on a huge scale.
▪ Hirst admits that there is much difficulty ahead: ... our ignorance on a huge scale re-asserts itself.
▪ Former heathland too was broken up into fields on a huge scale, as Professor Hoskins rightly stresses.
success
▪ But to Loi the meal was a huge success.
▪ Most publishers will tell you that huge success can be ruinous to a writer's talents.
▪ At the dinner parties, however, he was a huge success.
▪ But she can't because she's diabetic, and she's adapted to that with huge success.
▪ In a short five-year period, this technical model has became a huge success.
▪ It was rather a huge success in sociopolitical terms, in vastly expanding the range of the shareholding classes.
▪ But, as it turned out, that party was a huge success.
sum
▪ The major companies operating in these markets spend huge sums on marketing in order to promote their products globally.
▪ Soros made his fortune by setting up pools of wealthy investors who bet huge sums on global markets.
▪ And you will be paid huge sums to complete this work.
▪ Though banks lend huge sums to firms, banks are not the only source of lending.
▪ Perhaps he is jealous of the players who were offered huge sums of money for to tour, while he wasn't.
▪ There are players identified, huge sums of money exchanging hands and returned, and backgrounds and connections to write about.
▪ It was completed in 1970, at a cost of one billion dollars - a huge sum in those days.
▪ Each vessel must have cost a huge sum, and carried at least a score of men on board.
variety
▪ Other places contain a huge variety of species and have a high biomass.
▪ I've done a lot of work with a huge variety of sprayers.
▪ To some, the huge variety of life in the Burgess shale has been an inspiration.
▪ The huge variety of shapes is partly fashion and partly an attempt to avoid a phenomenon known as spin out.
▪ Murren has a huge variety of signposted walks to take you over the hills and into the mountains.
▪ It was clear from this point that the agencies represented worked in a huge variety of situations.
▪ The existence of such a rule of recognition may take any of a huge variety of forms, simple or complex.
▪ A huge variety will be on sale this year: the majority are frozen and by far the cheapest.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
huge/enormous great
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ King's new novel will undoubtedly be a huge success.
▪ The new system for targeting fraudulent websites has made a huge difference.
▪ Thelma baked a huge chocolate cake for me.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind the huge mirrors and searchlights were buildings full of food and supplies.
▪ He has a huge belly and is always drooling.
▪ I don't care if it means I miss out on huge deals.
▪ It was shiny metal, with a large black leather seat and huge black handlebars.
▪ Moving the speakers as little as an inch or two forward or backward can make a huge difference.
▪ Terrified, Mildred backed away and crashed into something hard, which seemed to be a huge iron railing towering above her.
▪ The United States is a huge country with a relatively thin population spread over it.
▪ There is huge unexplored potential in this field.