The huge market for changeable signs has spurred a universal demand for individual plastic letters, in all shapes and sizes -- and a number of companies are set up to supply them.

The beneficiaries of this administration were a number of huge cartels in which both individuals and the Belgian government itself held stock.

`` The ship is huge '', said Macneff, `` but the number of military men and specialists we are taking limits the linguists to one.

The Heroninos Archive is the name given to a huge collection of papyrus documents, mostly letters, but also including a fair number of accounts, which come from Roman Egypt in 3rd century AD.

The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: the huge number which results ( over 600, 000 ) demonstrates the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham of innumerable descendants, as well as serving as God's guarantee of victory in Canaan.

Like von Seeckt, he concluded that France could no longer maintain the huge armies of conscripts and reservists with which World War I had been fought, and sought to use tanks, mechanised forces and aircraft to allow a smaller number of highly trained soldiers to have greater impact in battle.

The poem has been referenced in a huge number of television shows.

San Francisco, despite its huge number of Chinese restaurants, appears to have only one whose cuisine would qualify as Halal.

Although the college game has a much larger margin for talent than its pro counterpart, the sheer number of fans following major colleges provides a financial equalizer for the game, with Division I programs – the highest level – playing in huge stadiums, six of which have seating capacity exceeding 100, 000.

While relations between the islands have had difficulties, mainly due the huge exodus of illegal immigrants from the Dominican Republic due to the nation's history of economic woes, the islands still, with the assistance of the United States Coast Guard and the Dominican Navy have worked hard to reduce the number of Dominicans crossing the Mona Passage in recent years.

David had a huge number of pupils, making him the strongest influence in French art of the early 19th century, especially academic Salon painting.

The number of different analog circuits so far devised is huge, especially because a ' circuit ' can be defined as anything from a single component, to systems containing thousands of components.

Actual proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei used a telescope to study the Milky Way and discovered that it is composed of a huge number of faint stars.

In 1750 the English astronomer Thomas Wright, in his An original theory or new hypothesis of the Universe, speculated ( correctly ) that the galaxy might be a rotating body of a huge number of stars held together by gravitational forces, akin to the solar system but on a much larger scale.

Hillforts were known since the Late Bronze Age, but a huge number were constructed in the period 600-400 BCE, particularly in the South ; after about 400 however new ones largely cease to be built and a large number cease to be regularly inhabited, while a smaller number of others become more and more intensively occupied, suggesting a degree of regional centralisation.

This catastrophe marked the end of the Megali Idea, and left Greece financially exhausted, demoralized, and having to house and feed a proportionately huge number of refugees.

Reports of Gericke's work and his claims that hydroponics would revolutionize plant agriculture prompted a huge number of requests for further information.

Hanover also hosts a huge number of congresses.

In addition, Moseley's methods and analyses made the huge step of placing the concept of atomic number on a firm foundation based in physics.

After unification a huge number of civil servants and soldiers recruited from all over the country introduced many more words and idioms from their home languages (" ciao " is derived from Venetian word " s-ciao " ( slave ), " panettone " comes from Lombard word " panatton " etc .).

Set against that is a strong culture of motor sport enthusiasm ( pinaccled in the TT, but there are a huge number of events throughout the year ) and the better locals are well used to traversing country roads at speeds illegal in roads of such low quality anywhere else on earth.

" He also blamed tobacco companies for lying to consumers about cigarettes, although congressman Ron Paul ( also a physician ) had advised him, in 1988, while on his show, that smoking was highly unhealthy and responsible for a huge number of deaths every year.

It was impossible to prevent Charles from summoning a diet attended by a huge number of barons, and he was able to secure their support.

A very large dwelling is described as existing in Niflheim owned by Hel with huge walls and gates.

In periods when the river is in flood upstream, if the gates are closed shortly after low tide, a huge empty volume is created behind the barrier which can act as a reservoir to hold the floodwater coming over Teddington weir.

Archaeological work undertaken in the last century has gradually unearthed the temple's ruins, revealing a huge walled compound accessible by several monumental gates located along the southern, western and eastern walls.

The village's name is derived from a Spanish term used to describe " The Gate ," after two huge wooden gates on Northeast Second Avenue that were taken down in the 1940s.

Space travel is risky and expensive, requiring huge jump gates which only permit travel between two specific points.

At the beginning of 1963, the dam was high enough to begin impounding water ; huge steel gates were closed over the diversion tunnels on January 2, and Lake Powell began to rise.

Architecturally there are several huge stone gates which stand at entrances to the Lacy estate.

This in itself grants him huge magical power, allowing him to destroy continents if he deems it necessary ; however, he rarely uses it, as it has a tendency to overdo things ( such as when he knocked over the gates of Jarviksholm during the attack on the city ).

A huge rift opens in the earth, swallowing up the gates and a greater part of Sauron's army, with the rest fleeing in terror.

The castle was designed in an elaborate form with three lines of defense: the inner castle with the palace and huge Donjon, the upper town with the main military camps with four gates and a double wall, and the lower town with the cathedral in the urban center and a port at the Danube.

Vannacutt had rigged the building with numerous iron gates, activated by cranks and levers, to serve as barriers to keep patients from leaving the building, should they escape ; some of these were controlled by huge, clock-like timers that wouldn't open for twelve hours.

The houses have huge compound walls around with gates.

The territory of the Solovetsky Monastery is surrounded by massive walls ( height 8 to 11 m, thickness 4 to 6 m ) with 7 gates and 8 towers ( built in 1584 – 1594 by an architect named Trifon ), made mainly of huge boulders up to 5 m in length.

It combines qualities of a luxurious villa with those of a military camp, with its huge gates and watchtowers.

According to ancient records, the city had around 13 gates, and a huge moat, providing strong defenses.

Between 1297 and 1344 a new defensive wall was constructed on the huge banks that surrounded the city, replacing the earlier palisade and gates.

The price for Bolesław's return to the Church was high: the Duke was finally forced in 1261 to pay a huge monetary compensation and made a public penitence at the gates of the Cathedral in Wrocław.

All the gates are double-storeyed sandstone structures flanked by two huge semi-circular bastion towers, decorated with white and coloured-marble inlays and blue tiles.

The city's brick walls were 4. 5 meters high, and had 12 gates with huge devas ( deities ) guarding the entrances and a pagoda at each of the four corners.