Sentences with phrase «prodigious quantities of»

Humans today are emitting prodigious quantities of CO2, at a rate faster than even the most destructive climate changes in earth's past.

But facing growing consumer demand for milk, these native cattle are increasingly being replaced by European Holstein - Friesian cows — known for their distinctive black patches and their ability to produce prodigious quantities of milk — and the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warns that Ankole could become extinct within 20 years.

Several types of tropical palms store prodigious quantities of starch.

What sets elite performers who turn out prodigious quantities of valuable work apart from normal worker bees, who despite our best intentions and long hours, consistently produce less than we hoped?

His sorrow, his concern, his despair, is selfish (like the dread of sin which at times almost frightens a man into sin) because it is self - love which would like to be proud of itself, like to be without sin — and consolation is what he is least in need of, wherefore also the prodigious quantity of consoling thoughts the physicians of the soul prescribe only make the sickness worse.

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The construction industry consumes truckloads of basic materials, the manufacture of which consumes massive quantities of energy, producing prodigious emissions of greenhouse gases.

China and other Asian countries produce a lot of black carbon (soot) and other pollutants that are belched into the atmosphere in prodigious quantities.