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Meanings of huge piles in English

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Usage of huge piles in English
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The abutments on either side of the Straits are huge piles of masonry.
The Illustrated London Reading Book
2
The bike-sharing boom sweeping China has led to huge piles of abandoned bikes.
BBC
3
Out of the storehouse came huge piles of clothing and blankets.
The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
4
Here on the table are huge piles of good home-made bread.
With Our Soldiers in France
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All along the rocky shore were huge piles of codfish caught that day.
The Land of the Long Night
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Disgusting, splitting bags of it in huge piles up and down the sidewalk.
Dark Matter
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We saw huge piles of dead elm, and timber offcuts stacked for festival fires.
The Guardian
8
To paraphrase the Simpsons, I imagine they sleep soundly on their huge piles of money.
The Irish Times
9
Bodies still lay in huge piles by the wall, already beginning to corrupt in the heat.
Genghis: bones of the hills: a novel
10
Numbers of men scattered to cut bunches of dates, and of these huge piles were collected.
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt
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The very deepest level seems to be wood, huge piles of Saxon oak... She eyed me.
Engineering Infinity
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It was difficult to focus on the huge piles of paperwork lying in front of him.
The ice princess
13
On either side of the ghostly empty streets, flies buzz over huge piles of rotting garbage.
Reuters
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NOTRE-DAME.-Inthe interior of Notre-Damethe insurgents set fire to three huge piles of chairs and wood-work.
Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second S...
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But banks, struggling under huge piles of non-performing assets that are eroding their capital, have been reluctant.
Reuters
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Some searched through what was left of their buildings - huge piles of concrete and twisted metal.
Reuters
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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