adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
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Either keeping personal creditors accounts or making sundry creditors adjustments can consume inordinate amounts of administrative and accounting time.
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We were spending an inordinate amount of time sending people to different meetings and not knowing what was going on.
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In the Soviet context an inordinate amount of attention has been paid to the willed aims of Bolshevik leaders.
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But in reality, seat-side service is only feasible for those with teeny appetites and an inordinate amount of patience.
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That is why the social anthropologists are justified in devoting such an inordinate amount of attention to the field of kinship.
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But the Minnesota Timberwolves, who own the fifth pick, have shown an inordinate amount of interest in Nash.
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They devote an inordinate amount of time, effort and resource to developing high-calibre managers.
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We found ourselves spending an inordinate amount of time in the chariot, chasing hither and yon.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a man of inordinate ambition
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an inordinate number of meetings
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Scientists have been criticized for devoting an inordinate amount of time to research on animals.