26.4.3. gy. B2 (példák)

vast adjective /vɑːst/ hatalmas

a vast amount/sum of money

vast areas of forest

The vast majority of pupils attend state schools.

highly adverb /ˈhaɪ.li/ 1 magasan (magas szinten)

a highly paid job

a highly educated workforce

enough determiner, pronoun /ɪˈnʌf/ 2 elég, elegendő (annyi/több mint amennyit kíván) (negatív értelmű megjegyzésben)

I've got enough work to do at the moment, without being given any more.

Half an hour in his company is quite enough!

Stop. You've made enough of a mess already.

You've drunk more than enough already.

some determiner /sʌm/ 2 (jó) néhány

It'll be some time before we meet again.

It was some years later when they next met.

We discussed the problem at some length.

Phrases and idioms:

a good/great deal jó sok

She spends a good deal of her time in Glasgow.

A great deal of effort has gone into making the software reliable.

They still need a great deal more money to finish the project.

a mass of sth rengeteg, egy rakás

He always has a mass of books and papers on his desk.

There was a mass of people around the club entrance.

The forest is a mass of colour in autumn.

a number of sth számos (sok)

There were a number of journalists present at the public meeting.

We've had quite a number of complaints about the programme.

an awful lot (of sth) borzasztó sok (informal)

It cost an awful lot of money.

hundreds egy csomó (sok) (informal)

Hundreds of people wrote in to complain.

masses rengeteg (informal)

I've got masses of work to do.

millions (egy/több) millió, rengeteg (informal)

I've seen that film millions of times.

no end rengeteg (informal)

I've had no end of trouble finding a hotel room.

thousands ezrek (sok) (informal)

She tried on thousands of dresses but didn't like any of them

tons of sth rengeteg, tonnaszámra vmiből (informal)

We've got tons of things to do before they arrive.