WordNet
adv. on a large scale without careful discrimination; "I buy food wholesale" [syn: wholesale]
Usage examples of "in large quantities".
Aware of this, the fellow used to go to one of the pumps, pump away, and pretend to drink water in large quantities.
But methylated spirit is more wholesome when taken into the system in large quantities than paraffine oil.
But you mustn't give him chocolate because it's got caffeine and theobromine in it, which are methylxanthines, and it's poisonous for rats in large quantities.
But methylated spirit is more wholesome when taken into the system in large quantities than paraffin oil.
He stayed away from cities, from people, from all the places where money is spent in large quantities.
Secretin is not manufactured in large quantities, and in isolating it from duodenal tissue a variety of other protein molecules are also obtained.
They are imported in large quantities from Syria and California, and are often used by confectioners in the place of Bitter Almonds.
No Spaniard ever, under any circumstances, learns that Spain exports arms in large quantities to almost all comers.
I am making ready to turn it out in large quantities to supply all the population.
It has been grown in large quantities in the alluvial soils of Lincolnshire and in the eastern counties, and flourishes well in Ireland.
In the north of England, Holly was formerly so abundant in the Lake District, that birdlime was made from it in large quantities and shipped to the East Indies for destroying insects.
Carrots are a valuable product for the farmer in feeding his cattle, and for this purpose are raised in large quantities.
Usually it was stringy cow meat and was cooked in large quantities on our kitchen stove, always in the same rust-brown enamel pot.
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