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If something is vast, it is very, very big. Tax rates will go up for the vast majority of the population. The system wastes vast sums of money. To do such work takes vast amounts of time and patience. The army marched over the vast territories of Russia. We saw vast improvements in their test scores. Two boats simply wouldn't be able to find each other in these vast oceans. Indonesia is stretches over a vast number of islands. They're building a vast network of power lines to transport the electricity. He has a vast collection of photos. The building was vast and empty. The problem is that distances are so vast.

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(= huge, immense) unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope huge government spending huge country estates huge popular demand for higher education a huge wave the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains immense numbers of birds at vast (or immense) expense the vast reaches of outer space the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization — W.R.Inge

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Simple sentences

The Sahara is a vast desert.
He is very much interested in Japanese history. We are surprised at his vast knowledge of the subject.
Your intelligence is as vast as the distance between Bombay and Mumbai.
He thought of himself as a speck of dust in an immensely vast universe.
Schooling is a process that taught a vast crowd of people to read but wasn't able to teach them to decide what is worth reading.
Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.
There is a vast difference between being able to make oneself understood in English and mastering the English language perfectly.
Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.
Poetry is only born after painful journeys into the vast regions of thought.
The vast majority of Chinese people have never met foreigners before, so it feels odd for them, like meeting space aliens.
More than 2 million hectares of land, including vast areas of forest, have been scorched in eastern Australia's bushfires.
The vast loneliness is awe-inspiring and it makes you realize just what you have back there on Earth.
Fossil fuels are abundant in that vast continent.
The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.
The vast majority of North Americans know English only at a mediocre level.
The southern Italian island of Sicily has been covered with a vast plume of smoke and ash.
A vast majority of people approve of the plan.
The vast majority of Russians in no way felt any effects of the sanctions imposed on Russia by the western countries.
He has a vast knowledge of music theory.

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The Yangtze was part of a vast waterway known as the Grand Canal that linked Hangzhou with Beijing 1,000 miles to the north.
Yongle controlled his vast empire from the Imperial capital, Nanjing.
This is just one volume of the vast encyclopaedia of Chinese literature and learning which he commissioned.
China remained a vast monochrome blanket.
The Forbidden City in Beijing is just one vast monument to the unity of Imperial power.
Today, they're building ocean-going ships again in China vast ships capable of bringing back the raw materials necessary to feed China's insatiably growing industrial economy.
Venus had water, and probably vast oceans on its surface.
These distances between stars are enormously vast.
Are we simply one small piece in the cosmicjigsaw puzzle or are we truly the only special beings in this vast universe?
Well, ifwe like California better, we could sell my holdings and buy vast lands out there.
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From the air, the district known as the Casbah looks like a teeming anthill, a vast staircase where terraces descend stepwise to the sea.
Russia's vast and rich lands beckoned an invader.
There we fought a vast and vicious enemy. A cruel adversary, the Swedish host.
He's waged a vast, cruel and ruthless war against us.
Vast and deserted are the lands of Central Asia.
If we like California better, we could sell my holdings and buy vast lands out there.
Rains had played a vast range of roles in his many years in the theatre, and was never typecast.
May our new bride from far away be forever happy. and learn to know the love we have in our Russian hearts for her. and the hope this vast, imperishable empire has. for an heir to the throne.
You should see it! You should see it with its big farms, with its vast meadows, and the black forests and the fields there, the vast, endless fields.
Surely, in that vast territory, there is a place for men to live and work and be happy.
There is vast controversy.
A vast, mysterious silence vibrant with life. strange cries in the night.
Gogarty, you stand perfectly still and leave everything to me. I've had vast experience in these matters.
He's a comely boy, but probably just another of the vast army of clock-watchers.
The seabed's vast.
Spain is a vast empire.
When I remember your beautiful forests and vast horizons far from your shores a cage most beautiful is nothing more than a prison.
Not to mention the vast choice I had, but that's how it was.
I've had vast experience in these matters.
But it's a problem he's eminently qualified to handle, a man of his vast experience with the law, in all its tawdry aspects.
There is a vast difference in comfort between these chairs. and those upon which our clients wait for a consultation.
Wonderland is vast. But we won't stay here long.
Surely you don't think you must abandon your husband because of a feeling, as vast as it might be.
The vast wilderness of giant, lush foliage.
There we were. lost in a vast wilderness.
The world is vast and boundless.
Vast hordes of gray rats surrounded the castle!
From my vast subconscious.

News and current affairs

Neoliberalism filled the vacuum, creating vast wealth for some people, but at the expense of the ideal of equality that had emerged from World War II.
Investors in Enron waited years before discovering that something was amiss. Though sudden and vast, the change in America's fiscal stance already provides a clear inkling that something was amiss.
The response - massive spending cuts - ensures that unacceptably high levels of unemployment (a vast waste of resources and an oversupply of suffering) will continue, possibly for years.
But, with some three billion or so users on the Web nowadays, that very openness has become a serious vulnerability; indeed, it is endangering the vast economic opportunities that the Internet has opened for the world.
How can you go home again if the sea has been sucked down a vast drain that opened up beneath it, emptying it who knows where, into a void?
We do know that the baby will enter a world of vast and unpredictable change - environmental, economic, geopolitical, technological, and demographic.
It is a tragedy that a great democracy should have so ugly and vast a prison system corroding both its reputation and its polity.
As a result, gun ownership has become perversely linked to freedom in the vast gun-owning American sub-culture.
For the moment, America's ability to borrow vast sums at low interest rates acts like a huge dose of steroids on the economy.
Since its victory in the Cold War, America's global hegemony has rested on three pillars: economic power, military might, and a vast capacity to export its popular culture.
NATO must play the central role here, because it is indispensable for the vast majority of Europeans and for America.
Given the prevalence of this belief, Djindjic's death creates a serious power vacuum precisely because his vast personal power was moving Serbia in some of the right directions.
Vast administrative resources are being used to secure the desired result.
Despite vast sums of money spent aiding such states over the last 50 years, armed conflict and violence continue to blight the lives of millions of people around the world.
Though sudden and vast, the change in America's fiscal stance already provides a clear inkling that something was amiss.
Even in the most advanced and affluent societies, a vast concentrated effort is needed to preserve even minimal decency: think of locks, security alarms, police, courts, and prisons.
This situation is an injustice of vast proportions, reminiscent of - and arguably much worse than - the now-repudiated colonialism of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.
As Burma's authorities test reform, these gifts, together with her negotiating skills and, most of all, her vast moral authority, will be tested as never before.
Meanwhile, the international community collectively fails to protect vast populations of vulnerable migrants, such as the millions stranded by the recent conflicts in North Africa.
Given the vast number of combinations of elements that can form compounds, there is a good chance that better superconductors await our discovery.
Neither entailed a great scientific challenge, but rather a vast engineering problem.
Because of its leading edge in the information revolution, and its vast investment in traditional power resources, the US will remain the world's single most powerful country well into this new century.
Certainly, the vast majority of economists, investment analysts, financial firms, and regulators failed to see the growing risk.
The end of Chavismo would threaten Iran's vast interests in Venezuela and its considerable presence in the Andes, while the fall of the Assad dynasty would be a devastating blow to Iran's regional strategy.
Since Ronald Reagan became President in 1981, America's budget system has been geared to supporting the accumulation of vast wealth at the top of the income distribution.
Only if growth is significantly faster over the long run will living standards for the vast majority of the region's voters begin to rise.

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