() 2d pers. sing. pres. of. Have, contr. of havest.
Example Sentences:
(1) The FSA last month published a report by Professor Gerard Hastings which concluded that advertising to children does have an effect on their food preferences, purchasing behaviour and consumption, and that these effects occur not just at brand level, but also for different types of food.
(2) Clearly underwhelmed, Pochettino's haste to board Southampton's flight south was such that he swerved post-match media duties.
(3) The democratically elected usually manage to leave with some dignity intact – even if in Britain the removal is often criticised for its humiliating haste.
(4) In the article, Hastings wrote: "The sacking of Michael Gove – for assuredly, his demotion from education secretary to chief whip amounts to nothing less – has shocked middle England.
(5) This was indicated in the present studies by a close correspondence of observed serum [Ca(++)] values with those predicted by the McLean-Hastings nomogram.
(6) This time, despite his wish to strike deals with similar haste, it has been more difficult, with only Asmir Begovic and Radamel Falcao arriving before the opening game.
(7) It is believed the tablet was secretly moved to London after its unveiling in a Hastings car park, but no one has spotted it since.
(8) Last year, Hastings indicted Gove's boss David Cameron for sucking up to the Germans intolerably over events commemorate the centenary of the start of the first world war.
(9) Under its founding president, Hastings Banda, Malawi became conservative internally with controversial diplomatic links – a police state under which civil liberties were heavily curtailed.
(10) Other factors frequently associated with incidents were inadequate communication among personnel, haste or lack of precaution, and distraction.
(11) At some point in the future (the theory goes) publishers will no longer need to spend a fortune on marketing Max Hastings' next book by lavishing money on Waterstones or in print.
(12) You see a cave with a hole.” She recovered thanks to god’s grace and good treatment at the government Hastings hospital, she said, but to her great sadness, her nine-year-old son, Clifford, will not come near her for fear.
(13) The peer said he was surprised that shareholders in Hastings and Worldpay had not raised the women issue as one of major concern.
(14) Along the coast, Hastings will be attempting to break the record it set last year for the world's largest gathering of pirates ( hastingspirateday.org.uk , 21 July.
(15) Most of the cast themselves became cosily ensconced in the establishment with unseemly haste.
(16) oxygen pressure in Hastings medium with glucose was localized in the cells of the periphery of the slice.
(17) Netflix has been forced to twice raise the amount it charges its 23 million subscribers to watch films, as chief executive Reed Hastings has made clear his determination to bolster the firm's library of content.
(18) No Southeastern trains will run into London Bridge or Charing Cross from December 24 to 28, apart from the Hastings service which will be diverted to London Bridge.
(19) Some of the 60 local authorities that are fast- tracking the government mortgage rescue scheme: South west: Salisbury, Plymouth, Weymouth South east and London: Tunbridge Wells, Slough, Hastings, Lewisham...#65279;, Westminster East: Basildon, Norfolk Midlands: Northampton, Leicester, Solihull, Warwick, Worcester North west and north east Wirral, Blackpool, Manchester, North Tyneside, Darlington, Middlesbrough Yorkshire and Humber Doncaster, Scarborough, Wakefield • This article was amended on Sunday 21 December 2008.
(20) One of those to question the haste with which the hoard is being put on public display is Gurlitt’s cousin, Ute Werner, who legally challenged the will in which he left his collection to the Bern museum.
Vast
Definition:
(superl.) Waste; desert; desolate; lonely.
(superl.) Of great extent; very spacious or large; also, huge in bulk; immense; enormous; as, the vast ocean; vast mountains; the vast empire of Russia.
(superl.) Very great in numbers, quantity, or amount; as, a vast army; a vast sum of money.
(superl.) Very great in importance; as, a subject of vast concern.
(n.) A waste region; boundless space; immensity.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) In this phase the educational practices are vastly determined by individual activities which form the basis for later regulations by the state.
(3) The effects of brain injury can be catastrophic and long-term so the impact of more research would be vast, but affected numbers are too small so it loses out.
(4) Does anybody honestly believe the vast majority of migrants don’t want that too?
(5) The vast majority of small cells were probably displaced amacrine cells.
(6) I never had any doubt that the vast majority of people engaged in "business" are not the exploiters but the exploited.
(7) In response, detainees – the vast majority of them failed asylum seekers who have committed no crime – waved and shared messages of solidarity.
(8) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
(9) It is important to pay attention to the outcome of this study in (postgraduate) education for general practitioners, as they treat the vast majority of urethritis patients.
(10) The drugs used in early studies - diuretics, vasodilators and reserpine - greatly improved mortality from malignant hypertension, apoplectic stroke and congestive heart failure, but had little or no effect in persons with milder degrees of elevated blood pressure, who constitute the vast majority of hypertensives.
(11) We report that specific human (dC-dA)n.(dG-dT)n blocks are polymorphic in length among individuals and therefore represent a vast new pool of potential genetic markers.
(12) The discovery of this vast tranche of documents has prompted historians to suggest that a major reappraisal of the end of Britain's empire will be required once these materials have been digested – a "hidden history" if ever there were one.
(13) The vast majority of the epithelial cells were secretory, and the rest were ciliated.
(14) Even the landscape is secretive: vast tracts of crown land and hidden valleys with nothing but a dead end road and lonely farmhouse, with a tractor and trailer pulled across the farmyard for protection.
(15) Lethal pulmonary embolism is associated with hypoxemia and hypocapnia in the vast majority of cases.
(16) The vast majority of members would rather have a quiet body, offering technical assistance here and there and convening an occasional summit.
(17) Europe was never going to be another America or Soviet Union, with one constitution imposing national homogeneity over vast distances, and with people and investment migrating ceaselessly in search of employment.
(18) In the southern state of Karnataka, corruption is blamed for uncontrolled mining in vast areas of protected forest.
(19) Mali: a guide to the conflict Read more In response, the Tuareg separatists attacked military and police points as far as Tenenkou in the south, to prove it still controlled vast swaths of the desert territory.
(20) The vast majority of the subjects had correctly been given the diagnosis of cerebrovascular disease.