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1 What a prodigious number of magnificent edifices, both public and private!
2 There are a prodigious number of religions festivals in Athens.
3 What a prodigious number of cities, villages, canals, and a thousand other agreeable objects?
4 These trees could hold a prodigious number of bodies.
5 Seven-and-twenty ships have been burned in the harbours, and a prodigious number of fine brass cannon taken.
6 The garrison consisted of 10,000 men, with a prodigious number of cannon.
7 A prodigious number of men,' he said, 'had been thus reduced to the utmost poverty and distress.'
8 And now for the first time he was struck by the prodigious number of priests among the crowd.
9 The strength of America lies in the prodigious number of individuals who think and work at the same time.
10 Long covered seats were arranged for the ladies of the city; a prodigious number of spectators occupied the ramparts.
11 The coffee-houses were threatened with desertion, and a prodigious number of banquets had been held by way of farewell.
12 Each neuron is like a tiny tree, with a prodigious number of roots-thedendrites-anda slender, sinuous trunk-the axon.
13 Afterward it received a prodigious number of signatures by the people in public and private life, and became quite popular.
14 There was a prodigious number of stragglers from the Federal lines, as these were the bane of the country people.
15 In 1791 a prodigious number were established, and, for some years afterwards, nearly fifty, large and small, existed in Paris.
16 It is incredible, if their account is to be depended upon, what a prodigious number of those creatures were destroyed.
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