Sheer weight of numbers helps to explain why there is pressure to change the law.
The old ones, I call them shamblers, they would eventually get you through sheer weight of numbers.
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But the sheer weight of the Mouse House may make them an impossible foe in the specific area of franchise-related tent pole films.
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The sheer weight alone (5478 pounds) makes a Bentley easier to handle than a slimmer, leaner friskier sports car (3946 on the Ferrari FF).
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Mrs Lees said the role of head teacher had become more challenging and complex and spoke of the "sheer weight of accountability" upon a head teacher's shoulders.
More likely, it is simply a sign of the sheer weight of money moving in and out of markets that are still too thin to bear it comfortably.
Those not caught in the initial incident then faced a massive diversion that took them 50 miles through the Conwy Valley, which became gridlocked itself under the sheer weight of traffic.
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These appendages may be well intentioned, but their sheer weight is effectively killing the bridge with love, weakening its structure to such an extent that Paris City Hall is urging tourists to stop the practice.
If a stable column of mud has been set up in the well, keeping the oil at bay through its sheer weight, the next step would be to set cement in the well and seal it off permanently.
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That having bureaucrats and government deciding upon prices, negotiating with suppliers, using the sheer weight of money at their disposal to get better prices, would curb the way that health care seems to have its own, higher, inflation rate.
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