How To Use Considerable In A Sentence

As the firm's engraver, he requires an artistic eye and a considerable amount of strength.
Numerous small contributions soon bulk up into a considerable sum.
State officials retained considerable economic control and allowed uneconomic factories and mines to continue operating.
A week-long state of emergency was declared, and the protests were forcibly suppressed with considerable loss of life.
As it was evident he was in no mood for converse, Sybil, who seemed to exercise considerable authority over the crew, with a word dispersed them, and they herded back to their respective habitations. Rookwood

Boschi, who trained with Passignano in the late 1580s, is known today principally to specialists, but he enjoyed a considerable degree of popularity in the early seicento.
The railway had made a considerable capital outlay on new rolling stock.
To be without Pearce would be a considerable blow.
Lennox Lewis and the rest of boxing await the answer with not inconsiderable interest.
Moreover, for logistics companies there are considerable long-term questions over the economic and environmental sustainability of home delivery. Times, Sunday Times
This matter has assumed considerable importance.
It is a considerable sum of money.
Compulsions are obvious to an observer and can cause considerable shame and embarrassment.
[She has risen and stands rubbing her arm and recovering her placidity, which is considerable.] Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works
The Council had considerable influence over many government decisions.
He soon came to exert considerable influence on surgical practice and hospital policy at Harrogate.
The complications are considerable, because the wildest creatures live in the wildest places. Times, Sunday Times
And he spent considerable time researching the genesis of malignant melanoma. The Sun
A considerable amount of tax collection is now done, in effect, by casinos; rather than raise taxes to pay for services, legislatures legalize gambling and then take a rake-off from the profits earned by private casino companies. The Sack of Washington
I have set that part of the judgment out in detail because I regard it as of considerable importance.
This relates directly to their ancestry; these short-legged hounds were bred to pursue their quarry by scent over considerable distances.
Only considerable skill in narrative can surmount the difficulty of this complete change of tone within the limits of one book.
Code Unknown is therefore a movie that requires a considerable investment of attention.
If he has managed to get rid of all the bad news, amounting to £1.3bn of exceptionals, which led to the company reporting a net loss of £1.02 bn, then there should be room for considerable upside in the group's fortunes over the next year.
So those of you thinking about going hiking maybe this weekend into the Colorado Rockies, down to the San Juan, across the Wasatch and Siuwincas (ph) and up into parts of Idaho and Montana, we have what we call a considerable threat of avalanche danger in the back country areas. CNN Transcript Feb 18, 2007
Faces of great dignity and considerable charm.
Her impersonations of our teachers were a source of considerable mirth.
And someone of considerable power and prestige like himtaking a career-ruiningride on the "anti-lobby" haywagon is the FIRST STEP in getting our government back .... Obama's First Big Mistake on the Job: Rescuing Sen. Joe Lieberman
Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the accoucheur a considerable portion of time.” MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION
The author has a considerable hold upon the reading public.
She could not become the shrill edgy hurried harridan the war had tried to make her while his square, leisurely, beflowered, inscrutable figure passed daily up and down between those pale considerable buildings. Maid in Waiting
A hallway in a largish single-storey house is a big job, lots of doors and a not inconsiderable amount of wall.
It is not surprising that such a view has led to very considerable conflict.
The surface weather which is experienced is but an indicator of the considerable flux and resultant turbulence which occurs in the range of atmosphere from the surface to high above.
Self confidence is desirable but it is difficult to achieve without considerable experience.
Middle-class families needed capital and credit, and marriage had considerable importance in bringing in funds through dowries and marriage settlements, and giving access to credit networks.
I also said at the time that the extent of damage is a subject of considerable debate.
Gauss in 1801 was to take Euler's work much further and gives a considerable amount of work on modular arithmetic which amounts to a fair amount of theory of abelian groups.
More homegrown products to enjoy include the legendary heroes of Lucha Libre: those uniquely Mexican wrestling creations who shifted their considerable weight from the lucha ring to the silver screen, and the accompanying lobby cards for their unabashedly shlocky movies are quite often classics. The lurid artistry of the Mexican lobby card
Unless the districts were considerable they were always more or less a kind of hole-and-corner government.
That he has regained sufficient emotional stability, after many years of considerable distress, to perform before live audiences is welcome.
No doubt that news will be received with considerable mirth in gyms throughout Britain. The Sun
Yet, much of the music on it contains a considerable amount of pop, rock, and world music influence.
The project has demanded considerable investment of time and effort.
The President resigned amid considerable controversy.
You'd think that the fact it took place, not in a makeshift basement church or at a remote backwoods campsite, but in a Senate office building, might have attracted considerable media frenzy.
She has considerable business/financial acumen.
Since this century was also an era of rapid urbanization, the question of how courts and capital cities got along with each other is of considerable interest. The Times Literary Supplement
Clive's father gave her a considerable leg up when he appointed her director of the family firm.
These are people who spend considerable chunks of their lives trying to make the world a better place. Times, Sunday Times
But taking the long view, there is cause for considerable optimism about the future of relations.
He also alluded to'considerable downward pressure '. Times, Sunday Times
He offered consumer credit with considerable success, and without, he stressed, charging the usurious rates of some rivals. Times, Sunday Times
A considerable sweetener that may be welcome by those who have pumped money into Rotherham but perhaps not by the paying punters who will feel cheated.
It closes very rapidly and has considerable momentum.
A fine singer and musician, he also writes very good songs and is a record producer of considerable note.
A considerable number of people object to the government's attitude to immigration.
There has been considerable alarm about the new proposals.
And one factor that can have a considerable influence is our diet. Times, Sunday Times
Despite his considerable experiences of tight places Déprez’s heart was pounding, but when he stared across the table, her expression reassured him. The Blackstone Key
We've saved a considerable amount of money.
This first of many direct and oblique connections between the two poets takes considerable ballsyness on the younger Berrigan's part, but it all pays off in the end.
Most patients who are suffering from alcoholism have considerable personal and social difficulties in addition.
The bindery is the only department of the industry in which any considerable number of women are employed. Wage Earning and Education
Despite considerable public disquiet, the post-Maastricht period saw substantial policy development.
State records indicate there is considerable groundwater degradation at the site, and that high levels of arsenic and antimony have been recorded.
His discoveries were of considerable use in understanding disease and they provided the basis of the biotechnology industry. Times, Sunday Times
Today's news will come as a considerable shock to the Scottish political system.
The Access Economics study undertaken shortly before construction began indicated it would be commercially viable, at least with the not inconsiderable investment of public funds in constructing the line.
Sparsity of population in some rural counties of Britain can create considerable problems for bus operators.
Private collectors often reminisce of the days they picked up six bottles of 1982 Le Pin at under €20 a bottle, back then not an inconsiderable amount to pay for a relatively unknown wine. The Remarkable Rise of Le Pin
But there is still room for considerable mischief by those who oppose the rush to negotiating glory in Clinton's final days.
For the separation of the alcoholic constituent, which is present in the form of an apparently not very considerable quantity of benzoic ether, far more ilang-ilang oil would be required than was at command. Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
Considerable amount of thin interbedded limestones and shales was deposited in a subtropical and shallow-marine epicontinental sea during the Cincinnatian Epoch.
In addition, a strategy involving routine endoscopy would be a considerable burden to patients.
It should be noted that these stages are to a considerable extent socially and economically determined.
_ It has been shewn by Dr. Priestley and Mr. Ingenhouz that the green matter at the bottom of cisterns, and the fresh leaves of plants immersed in water, give out considerable quantities of vital air in the sun-shine; that is, the perspirable matter of plants (which is water much divided in its egress from their minute pores) becomes decomposed by the sun's light, and converted into two kinds of air, the vital and inflammable airs. The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
He still suffers considerable discomfort from his injury.
There was considerable confusion in the administration over the correct procedure.
It at length attained the summit of an acclivity of considerable length. Castle Dangerous
It is a considerable sum of money.
The barogram of the 29th was remarkable for its waviform trace, and it may be that the air-waves propagated by such a disturbance can be transmitted a very considerable distance.
The original film, initially dismissed as crude animation based on the pulp comic strip, had gained considerable cred within the film world.
Had the acetate been used, the imposition of the poems directly over the images of the subjects 'faces would have integrated word and image but would have resulted in considerable obscuration of both the text and the faces. Gerard Malanga's Journey From Andy Warhol's Stage Dancer To Factory Poet
And one factor that can have a considerable influence is our diet. Times, Sunday Times
Kaplan's latest recording has received considerable popular acclaim .
While anyone can make money when markets rise, it takes considerable skill to minimise the damage to investment portfolios when markets fall.
Working for the wire services can also create the chance for considerable mobility among news organizations.
High beds need proper walls with concrete foundations because they have to withstand considerable pressure from the soil. Planning the Organic Herb Garden
Even new-media producers concede there is considerable expense and technical expertise needed to surf the Internet.
Considerable hidden costs in time taken by authority estates and environmental staff over negotiation could be added to this bill.
Iron likewise combines with a considerable variety of substances other than oxygen; and some of these compounds, as for instance iron carbonate (siderite), iron silicate (chamosite, glauconite, etc.), and iron sulphide (pyrite), are locally mined as iron ores. The Economic Aspect of Geology
Unfortunately it was merely the not inconsiderable technical prowess of his dancers that Page showed off in his emotionally inexpressive choreography.
In between such examples there is considerable scope for doubt as to where the line is to be drawn.
But their indirect influence has been considerable. Foucault and Derrida - The Other Side Of Reason
Wolf ended her life in her beloved Berlin, doubly exiled in her own country and shorn of her faith, left only with Was bleibt – what remains, the title of the account of being under surveillance by the Stasi that she wrote in 1979, and that aroused considerable controversy when published in 1990. Christa Wolf obituary
They show considerable sequence homology to pleurocidins, antimicrobial peptides of the flounder, Pseudopleuronectes americanus.
To my considerable surprise, they formed an instant, eager bond, and went into a tight conversational huddle for the next 45 minutes or so.
Accountability is, therefore, of considerable importance.
Greater agricultural mechanisation has led to considerable modification of this landscape and larger arable fields now occur in the area.
There is considerable uncertainty about the company's future.
In recent years considerable research has been undertaken to build computer models of asset performance and returns and their correlation with liabilities.
I mustered the entire caravan outside the tembe, our flags and streamers were unfurled, the men had their loads resting on the walls, there was considerable shouting, and laughing, and negroidal fanfaronnade. How I Found Livingstone
Gordon Richards's star novice created a tremendous impression when beating Dreamers Delight at Doncaster and possesses scope for considerable improvement.
There is considerable anxiety among staff about job losses.
Had the epicentre of the earthquake been on land, though, the damage would have been considerable and casualties could have been far worse. Times, Sunday Times
He suffered burns to his hands and a broken jaw, and lost ‘a considerable amount of blood’.
It suggests considerable unawareness of his danger that, when taken, he was wearing an Agnus Dei and in possession of a papal bull.
I estimate that the comparable disparities in Australia are less marked but still not inconsiderable.
There was considerable anxiety about His Holiness, much anxiety as to whether he would even be able to appear in public this Sunday in his hospital room.
Her meticulous attention to detail means she also spends considerable time researching pieces before she begins the restoration and she is currently studying the tapestry detail on the seats.
Whether this story is true or not, it holds a considerable symbolic weight. The Crossing-Place
There is considerable dispute over the precise definition of 'social class' as a term.
Greaves achieves considerable intensity on this tiny scale through his mastery of infinitely subtle tonal gradations, often in black and brown or gray hues that evoke the palette of old photographs.
Recent linguistic work on characterisation has used the principles and analytical techniques of pragmatics and discourse analysis to considerable effect.
In the 18th and 19th centuries the barcarole inspired a considerable number of vocal and instrumental compositions, ranging from opera arias to character pieces for piano.
And now I'm reading John Green's marvelous An Abundance of Katherines, and am pleased to have found another child for whom fables were not all that: "if only he'd known that the story of the tortoise and the hare is about more than a tortoise and a hare, he might have saved himself considerable trouble. Whither Jackie Paper?
While issues such as domain name ownership and cybersquatting (taking control of a website address you have no right to) were clearly red hot at the height of the internet boom, they remain of considerable importance today.
However, while there is considerable evidence for the translocation of photosynthetic products into the host corals, evidence regarding the benefits of the symbiosis for Crystalline deposits in Symbiodinium cells had long been misidentified as oxalic acid PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
The bad news is that all decaffeination methods remove considerable flavor and aroma from the coffee, which means that in order for the decaf to taste great, the beans chosen for decaffeination need to be stellar. Buying and brewing good coffee in Mexico
Finding a cure requires considerable time and effort.
These products are surrounded by considerable mystique and are often outrageously expensive.
Crucially, this advice does not extend to resorts in the Red Sea such as Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada, where the vast majority of British holidaymakers are based because they are "a very considerable distance from the affected areas and these resorts remain unaffected". The Guardian World News
Formerly the universities were granted considerable day-to-day autonomy within a legal framework shaped byu the state.
And he spent considerable time researching the genesis of malignant melanoma. The Sun
The newspaper article caused the actor considerable distress.
His work led to considerable activity in the new area of algebraic combinatorics.
It is not surprising that Europeans are prepared to pay a considerable amount to reduce the risk of such a change.
The data gathered for the exercise clearly reflect the now very considerable research strength and performance that we possess.
Because many factors are involved and they are dynamic, responses of crops cannot be easily predicted, yet agronomically they are of considerable importance.
I've always been interested in curses, hexes, and the like, and would be excited to discover that I have this capability, though of course it would also amount to a considerable responsibility.
Implementation next year will save considerable administrative effort at head office.
47 The image of the child in utero as fruit hanging precariously from a tree extended back to Galen, as Constantinus believed. 48 While Aldobrandino's passage and metaphor attributed a considerable amount of agency to the fruit-fetus (note the active voice), most discussions of fetal growth and parturition portrayed the fetus as entirely passive. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
He'd gone to considerable trouble to set up that lever to force Rickmore to recant or, if he wouldn't, to destroy his value as a witness. A QUESTION OF PRINCIPLE
Detailed guidelines defeat the very purpose of guidelines. which is to allow considerable local flexibility and adjustment.
Volume Two, sub-titled "The Lawyers", will also attract considerable attention.
Usually floodplains are not veneers of alluvium explicable by lateral channel movements, but considerable thicknesses smoothing over more complex relief.
Gordon Richards's star novice created a tremendous impression when beating Dreamers Delight at Doncaster and possesses scope for considerable improvement.
The number of students at a college can be subject to considerable fluctuation.
He was a man who exercised considerable influence over people.
The Council had considerable influence over many government decisions.
In our euphoria over the public demonstration of airpower's considerable abilities and accomplishments, we should not oversell it or lose sight of its limitations.
It took a considerable amount of polish and elbow grease before the brass shone like new.
They retain considerable autonomy and power, and have a self-interested reason to manipulate economic statistics.
Mortimer also discovered symptoms of lush-logic, for though he had an inclination to keep up the chaff, his dictionary appeared to be new modelled, and his lingo abridged by repeated clips at his mother tongue, by which he afforded considerable food for laughter. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
If it was a matter that was of considerable concern to this defendant local authority, then one would have expected the issue to have been flagged up at an early stage, certainly before the hearing.
The heteromorphous sterculia of the interior, and some species of eucalyptus of very stunted growth covered its sides, which however for a considerable distance were not deficient in grass. Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales
To do this, the child requires considerable cognitive flexibility and a good understanding of the concept of intention.
Black bass (locally called chub) and white perch are very abundant, and at the proper season rock and herring enter the Sound in considerable numbers. North Carolina and its Resources.
His spectacular style had considerable appeal. ITF World of Tennis
A considerable background literature exists on this topic but only recently has economic urgency again directed attention toward this method of conversion.
Being proud and genteel New Englanders, the salon-goers covered up their patricide with flattery, duly noting Edwards's considerable intellect and pious reputation.
To her finer qualities must be added a quick temper and considerable hauteur, more readily apparent to the Chinese than to most foreigners.
However, these acid producers can also cause considerable damage to underground concrete pipes and other structures.
If Barak can contain the potential for these stresses and strains to muddy his agenda, that will be a considerable achievement.
Nicorette lost considerable time when the bowman hit his head and was knocked unconscious while working on the boat's mast.
We received a considerable number of strong applications from poetry organisations for national portfolio funding. Times, Sunday Times
However, expenditure in the future might reasonably have extended that useful life for a considerable period of time.
The 1999 is a peppery, luscious wine of considerable complexity and intensity.
This is true even though some recent observations found that the mesocyclone gust front structures are not strictly low-level phenomena, but instead, extend through a considerable depth of the storm.
That way can only lead to painful failure and the eating of considerable quantities of dust and dirt. THROWING THE ELEPHANT
Those who had paid their debts had more control over their work, and some seem to have accumulated considerable wealth in savings and jewellery.
My estate, of course, is nothing compared to Sylvester's; it is, however, not inconsiderable. DEVIL'S BRIDE
“A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.” Saint Ronan's Well
The latest health scare has made a very considerable dent in the sales of beef.
When I stopped at a khafe-khana for a glass of tea, he actually removed a wheel of the carriage, which we had considerable difficulty in putting right again, and he pounded the coachman on the head with the butt of his revolver, in order, as far as I could understand, that he should be induced to go half-shares with him in the backshish that the driver would receive at the end of the stage. Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland
When the previous inflammation round the ulcer is considerable, however, the application of the caustic would induce vesication, and it should in such a case of course be avoided, and another mode of treatment to be described hereafter must be adopted. An Essay on the Application of the Lunar Caustic in the Cure of Certain Wounds and Ulcers
English by birth, I'd been in Australia for about 10 years and had a hankering to return to my roots, if not permanently, then at least for a considerable length of time.
Garden, who attracts considerable notice by the cry of -- Come buy my live shrimps and pierriwinkles -- buy my wink, wink, wink; these, however, are exceptions to those previously mentioned, as they have good voices, and deliver themselves to some tune; but to the former may be added the itinerant collector of old clothes, who continually annoys you with -- Clow; clow sale. Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life
In addition to this flattering appearance, the face of the country is such, as to promise success whenever it shall be cultivated, the trees being at a considerable distance from each other, and the intermediate space filled, not with underwood, but a thick rich grass, growing in the utmost luxuriancy. The Expedition to Botany Bay
There is considerable doubt that the national team will provide anything like enough dazzle for that. Times, Sunday Times
A reliable non-invasive diagnostic technique would represent a considerable advance.
Always at his best out on the training field, he was said to become increasingly and untypically remote, and he left, after considerable vocal encouragement from Leeds fans, in 1980. Jimmy Adamson obituary
Indian Independence of 1857 "-- in its way a very remarkable history of the Mutiny, combining considerable research with the grossest perversions of facts and great literary power with the most savage hatred -- were bound in false covers as" Pickwick Papers, "or other equally innocuous works. Indian Unrest
The first, from an inconsiderable village, is become one of the most flourishing places of the kingdom, enriched by the linen, cambrick, flowered lawn, and silk manufactures. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
Uplift of this magnitude could have occurred during Hercynian times with the stripping of considerable amounts of Carboniferous overburden.
None the less, everything important is included on Sony's single disc, which thus enjoys a considerable price advantage.
The jamming caused considerable confusion and slowed the British reaction, and as a result the German warships had passed through the strait of Dover before the first attacks were launched against them.
The performance received considerable acclaim.
The choice was considerable: salads, soups and stir-fries alongside curries and seafood dishes.
There was a considerable amount of wreckage on the surface and a life-jacket with the boat's name stencilled on it told them the worst. CONFESSIONAL
had no inconsiderable influence
There is, needless to say, some bitterness and disappointment that no system emerged after considerable expenditure.
Salaries take up a considerable portion of our total budget.
He said that the company was manufacturing its own spare parts and other accessories for the machinery a development that caused considerable cut down on time to load and offload cargo.
Merlin almost effortlessly blocked her bolt barehanded, but stopping her second one took considerable effort.
This has enabled M.P.s to build up considerable expertise in their chosen fields.
After a warm reception from my inmate brethren, today, I found out that one yahoo can cause considerable perturbation.
She was a talented artist and had considerable personal charm.
As we can see, it is necessary to acquire a considerable amount of information about the client.
Adaptation can occur quickly permitting considerable variation within the limits of the species but loss of genetic information is a known continuing process e.g.telemeres; this eventually leads to intersterility within the species but it is not speciation. Why the new Darwin Debate is Good News | PopPolitics.com
From the early 10th cent. there was considerable Norse settlement, from Ireland and the Isle of Man, leaving evidence in words like fell, ghyll, tarn, and how.
After the war the land area was not derequisitioned for a considerable time, but the aerodrome was abandoned by the Ministry.
The training plan Considerable effort and expense were employed in providing information and training to help boards get established.
He exerted considerable influence on the thinking of the scientific community on these issues.
Considerable debate has arisen over their origin, and many explanations have been given.
This region provides habitat for considerable floral and faunal species diversity, many of which taxa are endemic. Talamancan montane forests
The dislocation caused considerable disquiet outside China, but little within. Times, Sunday Times
Given that the DA will see his chances for re-election dwindle if he/she is perceived to be soft on a multiple felony slam-dunk conviction case against a spoiled, arrogant, crime-committing, room-temperature-IQ behemoth, I suspect the moron in question (e.g., the football player), after considerable wheeling and dealing by his zealous defense attorney -- who is just doing his job, will likely receive felony deferred adjudication from the appropriate court. No Prison for Plaxico?
The cost of all the equipment you need for a baby adds up to a considerable sum.

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