Considerable

//kənˈsɪdəɹəbl̩//

"Considerable" in a Sentence (15 examples)

To Brian's surprise, his debt amounted to a considerable sum.

The ship was built at considerable expense.

The nuclear ship was built at a considerable expense.

A considerable amount of time and effort have been spent already.

You seem to have made considerable progress since I saw you last.

This movement has not yet achieved all its goals, but it has already had considerable impact in many areas of male-female relations.

A considerable number of students want to go to college.

There is considerable optimism that the economy will improve.

A considerable amount of money was appropriated for the national defense.

The present housing policy is likely to come up against considerable opposition.

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Soon I became a considerable figure in the music industry.

Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand. We spent consider'ble money getting 'em reset, and then a swordfish got into the pound and tore the nets all to slathers, right in the middle of the squiteague season.

With the cutting out of the previous recovery times for electrification work, curtailment of station times and acceleration, considerable reductions have been made in the overall schedules.

When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. He had him gripped firmly by the arm, since he felt it was not safe to let him loose, and he had no immediate idea what to do with him.

Statistes and Politicians, unto whom Ragione di Stato, is the first considerable, as though it were their businesse to deceive people, as a Maxime, do hold, that truth is to be concealed from them […]

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