adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great/vast/major improvement (= very big )
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The new computer system was a vast improvement.
a huge/enormous/vast sum
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The company has invested huge sums in research.
a huge/vast/immense fortune
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Timothy was the heir to a vast fortune.
a large/great/huge/vast range
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A vast range of plants are used in medicines.
a large/vast/huge empire
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The emperor Claudius ruled a vast empire stretching from Persia to Britain.
a large/vast/huge empire
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He created a vast financial empire worth billions of dollars.
a vast/huge number (= very large )
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We’ve had a huge number of complaints.
a vast/huge/enormous quantity
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Computers can handle vast quantities of data.
a vast/impressive/wide array
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There was a vast array of colours to choose from.
at great/huge/considerable/vast expense (= used when saying that something costs a lot of money )
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The tiles were imported at great expense from Italy.
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Recently, and at vast expense to the taxpayer, the bridge was rebuilt.
considerable/extensive/vast knowledge
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She had considerable knowledge of antiques.
the far/furthest/vast reaches of space (= the far, furthest etc areas of space )
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Light takes time to travel across the vast reaches of space.
the vast/great plain(s)
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Beyond lay the vast plains of the Central Valley.
vast distances
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The aircraft is able to carry huge loads over vast distances.
vast (= extremely big )
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the vast Gobi desert in China
vast/wide/large etc expanse
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the vast expanse of the ocean
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
so
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I was stricken with a love so vast that I couldn't find the edges.
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Did ever battle have so vast a cloud of witnesses?
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Manifestly so vast a body does not collapse overnight and much of the decline can be masked for decades.
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Look at the stars, so vast , so far.
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Even a full house would be piffling for a town with so vast a drawing area.
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The vocabulary of every language is so vast that there is no way to eliminate all such hazards in the short run.
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I feel that the space inherited from this family is so vast that it seems physical.
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The room is so vast that I can not see the end.
■ NOUN
amount
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He said it cost a vast amount to build each new mile of motorway.
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Hospitals save a vast number of lives and prevent a vast amount of pain.
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The open choice of options accompanied by such a vast amount of student-centred learning provided challenges for both staff and students.
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The result is vast amounts of wasted space.
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In its present form, grid method demands that vast amounts of information are condensed into simple verbal labels.
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These surface bursts raise vast amounts of dust.
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He had never given her a vast amount , anyway.
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We must remember also, however, that there is a vast amount of other information which has equal and greater importance.
area
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They barely made a dent in the vast area they were supposed to cover.
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Typically, they hunt vast areas to find suitable deposits.
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As Gould rightly assumed, vast areas of terraincognita held enormous possibilities for new and exotic species.
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The North, on the other hand, would have to stretch its supply lines over vast areas of hostile territory.
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Natural resources were scattered over vast areas .
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Altogether, it was a vast area whose different parts were cut off from each other except by slow coastal navigation.
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It irrigated the vast areas of his knowledge, humours and concerns.
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In effect the law has encroached upon vast areas of activity.
array
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Many items boast natural fabrics and a vast array of colours to choose from.
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An adult has a vast array of comparatively complex schemata that permit a great number of differentiations.
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The vast array of commercial messages has also made their contextualisation increasingly difficult.
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In Neolithic art we discover a vast array of bird-woman Goddess statues, pots, and paintings.
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The exhibition is spread over 300 acres and you can choose from a vast array of different features to spend your tim.
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University and college libraries enable the enquiring mind to range freely over a vast array of literature.
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The class enemy, the bourgeoisie and its allies, wielded a vast array of ideological weapons designed to mislead the proletariat.
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As an Empire player you can choose from a vast array of infantry types.
bulk
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Some may be notes and coin but the vast bulk will come from people writing cheques drawn on bank accounts.
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The purpose of the new series starting this week, Computer 102, is to keep its vast bulk from crushing you.
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The theory is that data from the vast bulk of incoming faxes is later inputted in some form back into the computer.
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The vast bulk of mainstream manufacturers in this country don't know how to use our designers.
collection
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It would be all very well if the Book Trade were not in fact a vast collection of individual trading interests.
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Inside is a vast collection of brass candlesticks.
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It holds a vast collection of manuscripts dating from 1965 onwards.
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Today it is the headquarters of the Milan Public Library and houses a vast collection of books, newspapers and periodicals.
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Steve Joynes has a vast collection of jukeboxes of all shapes and sizes.
difference
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There are vast differences between the two, of course; but not all of them are to the latter's credit.
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And there is a vast difference between businessmen in financial trouble and consumers in financial trouble.
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But there is, of course, a vast difference between failing at something and actually being a failure.
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The vast differences between these two scholars are all the more striking since neither has written a direct refutation of the other.
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Don't be too disheartened if the first two sets of photographs do not show a vast difference .
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Hence the vast difference in the feelings of such people, both towards themselves and the Cosmos in general.
distance
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It was essential to make suitable arrangements about financing, especially in view of the vast distances involved.
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The discovery of lava flows that cover vast distances on the Moon provided an interesting clue to their composition.
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Even Ken Lomax and Ray Shepherd seemed at a vast distance from them.
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But there remains a vast distance between theory and practice.
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In those days planes could not fly vast distances and had to stop overnight, often in remote places.
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The confederation, on the other hand, was only a fragile union whose members were scattered over vast distances .
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It eliminates the frustration of playing telephone tag and lets people easily share all sorts of information across vast distances .
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The stellar sphere, owing to its vast distance from earth, needed no epicycles because its movement appeared regular and unchanging.
expanse
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He had not been here before and he was alarmed by the vast expanse of water that now stretched ahead of him.
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The way paintings were hung, how sculpture and furniture were placed across the vast expanse , suggested landscape rather than decor.
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Yet the whole was harmonious, welded together beneath the vast expanse of Virginia creeper which covered the walls to the eaves.
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Layers of colour, white, reds and vast expanses of different tones of green.
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Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-made sand dune buffer, delivering us on to a vast expanse of pale beach.
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The vast expanse of Exmoor national park starts at Combe Martin.
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For example, Clarke scorns those who argue that mankind will not eventually move out to colonise the vast expanses of space.
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The Obergruppenführer, meanwhile, is sitting on a large leather revolving chair behind a vast expanse of desk.
expense
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Unfortunately some solutions rely on structural changes for effect, but these don't always have to involve vast expense .
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East Berlin is being rebuilt and restored at vast expense as a full-scale capital and show-window.
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The vast expense of the prison system has led to the development of various non-custodial alternatives.
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The Royals seem to use the royal yacht purely for privileged leisure cruising - at our vast expense .
improvement
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The pub has been closed for eight weeks but tenant Tracy Willcox said the renovation was a vast improvement .
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The minivan is a vast improvement over its predecessor.
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Printing on special heavy and glossy paper can be a vast improvement over standard office paper.
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The airplane was a vast improvement over my dreamy mechanisms.
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It's also the first major re-design of the spreadsheet in 10 years and it's a vast improvement .
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It led to a vast improvement for everybody in Baldersdale because it provided a regular income.
increase
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But he did not believe the survey results called for an immediate, vast increase in funding.
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Other goals that were achieved included a vast increase in green space and a major expansion of the community college system.
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Rosalind Lloyd, Acton, London Over the past 50 years there has been a vast increase in consumption of carbonated drinks.
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The figure, double that of the previous year, is blamed on the vast increase in the use of the internet.
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You will have seen how alarmed we are by the plans to meet a vast increase in aggregates demand.
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Furthermore, there has been a vast increase in the range of behaviour that has come under the control of the law.
majority
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In the vast majority of cases this means giving them a mum and dad.
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And major studies have shown that the vast majority have believed it, and have acted on that belief.
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The vast majority curse the day they became hooked on the habit.
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The vast majority are of brief duration, on the order of seconds for foremen and minutes for chief executives.
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The vast majority are black and Hispanic.
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But the vast majority of voters involved in these town meetings did not hold dear the traditionally conservative definition.
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The vast majority of eunuchs, and almost all those I met, were born physically male.
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I spent the vast majority of my time in solitary confinement.
network
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We have a vast network of brains and resources which we should put together.
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This distorted form of Buddhism spread rapidly thanks to a vast network of male and female monastic communities.
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In this way, everyone spied on everyone else, in a vast network of internal surveillance.
number
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There will always be vast numbers of people who can not afford to pay.
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Hospitals save a vast number of lives and prevent a vast amount of pain.
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There is obviously a vast number of such possible trajectories.
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Clearly here was open land able to absorb vast numbers of people.
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The South West Region plays host to a vast number of divers all over the country.
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After commissions were cut at Harvard, a vast number of Harvard dealers joined the search.
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Endemic diseases carried away additional vast numbers of people.
numbers
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The disproportionate population of samurai attracted vast numbers of retailers, craftsmen and servants to service the large and wealthy consumer market.
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If this fall had struck a city, vast numbers of casualties would have resulted.
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The prints combined quality and cheapness and were produced in vast numbers .
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The Project also took advantage of the vast numbers of our supporters eager to stand up to the bullies at the clinics.
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Seedlings, also, are destroyed in vast numbers by various enemies.
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First, the insurance industry employs vast numbers of women and pays them even less than comparable jobs in other industries.
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Clearly here was open land able to absorb vast numbers of people.
quantity
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The treasures included a vast quantity of written documents.
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Basra imported vast quantities of kermes and indigo to dye textiles red and blue.
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For example, how can such a vast quantity of knowledge be acquired?
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He runs a shit-lab in the Village and dispenses cocktails from hell in vast quantities .
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Finch was totally infatuated with her and they both put away vast quantities of alcohol between them.
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They will also include vast quantities of physical as well as financial data about every aspect of the different markets.
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The Forest of Dean is not an area with a vast quantity of mills although certain areas were quite heavily utilised.
range
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My record was merely an extension of that vast range to the south side of the Black Sea.
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Farmers grow only a few crops, while gatherers pick from a vast range of wild plants.
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Trevor Thompson says they are aiming to attract a vast range of customers - from charities to post offices.
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And the vast range in prices according to cabin, ensures that there is something to suit every pocket.
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There's a vast range of kitchen units available in a choice of materials.
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The people of unsophisticated societies enjoy a vast range of dietary inputs.
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He reads and digests material on a vast range of topics and picks the brains of most of the leading authorities.
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More than ever, secondary schools looking for data-logging equipment have a vast range to choose from.
sum
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Creditors and investors stood to lose vast sums .
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Rather than expending vast sums on political posturing, we may in-stead choose to invest in potentially profitable space enterprises.
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Shoppers will have more in their pockets and it will not cost companies vast sums to borrow for expansion.
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And I recognize now that Kathie Lee is above all a humanitarian who raises vast sums for good causes.
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Major record companies invest vast sums of money in new artists every year.
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Most businesses, especially small businesses, can not afford to squander vast sums of money on such refined legalistic nit-picking.
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Courts don't pay out vast sums of money for ruined holidays.
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Her father had bought it for a vast sum from a sailor in a pub.
tract
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There were in fact many others, with vast tracts of empty space between them.
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That vast tracts can be bought and sold as casually as a loaf of bread is immoral.
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At a time when vast tracts were unsettled, it was all too easy for governments to be profligate.
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All is slanted to maintaining the Establishment stranglehold on vast tracts of land for their own selfish playgrounds.
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At the same time, the forest path and road lights were switched on and lit up vast tracts of the Heide.
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Gosse was perplexed at the vast tracts of time required by geologists to account for the deposition of all the strata.
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The vast tracts of sterile desert land were broken only by irregular patches of short, dry grasses or rough scrubland.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Vast areas of the Amazon rainforest have been destroyed.
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Vast distances separate one isolated community from another.
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Vast quantities of food and drink were consumed at the wedding.
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a vast area of waste land
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a vast improvement
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the vast expanse of the desert
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The refugees arrived in vast numbers from villages all along the border.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Status, and effectively caste, was thus being bought at vast prices.
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Technology is dedicated and therefore vast reductions in cost in the lifetime of a product are not to be expected.
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The karate repertoire has a vast array of technical kicks.
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The United States was too busy exploiting the possibilities of her own vast domestic market.
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These, plus a host of varying expectations, require vast amounts of communication.
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This is a simple rule, and for 40 years the vast majority of charitable organizations have strictly observed the prohibition.