montón
congeries ; heap ; stack ; wadge ; pile ; stash ; slew.
To be sure, it still has its congeries of mills and factories, its grimy huddle of frame dwellings and congested tenements, its stark, jagged skyline, but its old face is gradually changing.
The raw material of white paper was undyed linen - or in very early days hempen - rags, which the paper-maker bought in bulk, sorted and washed, and then put by in a damp heap for four or five days to rot.
Examination reveals positions on the cards where the light passes through all the cards in a stack.
By meeting authors cold print takes on a human voice; wadges of paper covered with words turn into treasure troves full of interest.
However, it would be a time consuming task for the student or researcher to sit down with piles of periodicals, frantically scanning contents lists to try to trace articles on his chosen topic.
It tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house.
His work includes 47 novels, and slews of essays, plays, reviews, poems, histories, and public speeches.
aburrir un montón
bore + Nombre + to tears
bore + Nombre + to death
bore + Nombre + stiff
However, before becoming the vivacious student we all loved, Camilla was stuck in a job that bored her to tears.
Money matters bored her to death.
She has just been fired by one of the city's top law firms because she had the honesty to admit the work bored her stiff.
ahorrar un montón
save + a bundle
save + a ton
The book is entitled 'Build your own LAN and save a bundle'.
You can save a ton by bundling your high speed internet service, phone service and cable tv all in one package.
ahorrar un montón de dinero
save + a ton of money
On the bright side, by doing that they save a ton of money on makeup and costumes.
a montón
aplenty [a-plenty]
galore
The article 'CD-ROM licenses: pitfalls aplenty!' advises how to deal with the licenses which subscribers are required to sign on purchase of CD-ROM products for use in libraries = El artículo "Las licencias de CD-ROM: ¡dificultades a montón!" aconseja cómo negociar las licencias que los suscriptores tienen que firmar al comprar productos CD-ROM para uso en la biblioteca.
There have been promises galore made to delegation after delegation of the film industry, but all the promises have been just promises, hollow and empty.
a montones
in (their) droves
by the sackful
by the ton
in shiploads
in vast quantities
in large quantities
by the bucketful
by the bucketload
Industry sales eventually peaked in 1993, and the artificial bubble burst as disillusioned speculators left the comic book market in droves, never to return.
Kolya transported the harvested cucumbers to the village store where the locals bought them by the sackful.
200g of chocolate is enough to kill a dog and yet we eat the stuff by the ton every year.
From Europe they came in shiploads looking for gold.
Standard components can be manufactured in vast quantities, keeping costs down.
Vitamins and minerals taken in large quantities, without the advice of a specialist, may affect the human body.
I could seriously eat this by the bucketful without any regrets whatsoever.
Those one-off singles may sell by the bucketload but everyone knows that has nothing to do with good music.
costar un montón
cost + a bundle
The book is entitled 'Water Pollution Controls to Cost a Bundle'.
del montón
unimpressive
a dime a dozen
The author deems voice recognition technology to be unimpressive but finds that text-to-speech conversion has greatly improved.
The Wizard, played by Joel Grey, is a smooth-talking dumbbell who admits he is 'a corn-fed hick' and 'one of your dime-a-dozen mediocrities'.
desde hace un montón de tiempo
for yonks
His been a mechanic for yonks and my father has always taken his cars there and now I am too.
escribir un montón de
write + reams (and reams)
Over the years, she wrote reams and reams of stories, but never really did anything with them, and eventually these were lost in one way or another.
gastarse un montón de dinero
lash out (on)
go to + town on
spend + a ton of money
splash out on
The company is too tight to lash out on anything for the employees, even tools to increase productivity.
He was refering to the unbelievable action taken by the riot police who for no good reason decided to go to town on innocent fans.
It is easy to get in the mindset that vacation is a time to spoil oneself, and that is true, but it shouldn't translate into spending a ton of money.
While the rest of the lads are splashing out on luxury cars or expensive holidays in the sun - O'Brien is pumping the money back into the farmland.
hace un montón de tiempo
yonks
I've been pseudo-vegetarian for a few years now - I usually reserve meat for when we dine out - so it's been yonks since I cooked fish.
llegar a montones
pour in
A famous astrologist has recently predicted a tsunami will hit the Thai coast in December and cancellations are pouring in.
montones
oodles
scores
This way I do not litter my desk with oodles of photocopies and I can search for key words or phrases electronically within any scanned document.
A killer bacteria resistant to antibiotics is sowing panic across Israel as it sweeps through hospitals leaving scores dead.
montón(es) de [Una gran cantidad de]
mountain(s) of
Implementation of the image processing system meant this mountain of paper could be transformed into electronic form on easily transported optical disks.
montones de
scores of
lashings of
Popular authors receive scores, in some cases hundreds, of letters a year from their young readers and every correspondent, I am quite sure, wants a reply.
End your meal on a naughty-but-nice note with one of these mouth-watering desserts, served with lashings of home-made custard.
querer un montón
love + Nombre + to bits
love + Nombre + to death
But it was their first car and they loved it to bits.
I love her to death and don't know what I would do without her - we have the craziest times together!.
un montón
like crazy
like mad
We have no idea what will capture people's imagination and work, but all we can do in any period of great change is experiment like crazy.
With hundreds of bait fish swarming your spot - feeding like mad - the game fish get extremely excited and start to move into the area to feed on the bait fish.
un montón de
a pile of
a stack of
a bundle of
a truckload of
a sackful of
a raft of
a trunkful of
a bucketful of
a bucketload of
reams of
a bashful of
All the librarian has is a pile of useless junk which people have given to the library instead of throwing out.
They found him in his habitually cluttered office, buried beneath stacks of paperwork.
Works that are copyrighted have a bundle of rights associated with them.
He risked unpopularity by privatizing the bus service and using savings for a truckload of classroom computers.
This release introduces more new features and includes another sackful of bug fixes.
We've had a raft of excuses and not one apology.
The elephant stood there, delicately chewing trunkfuls of grass, until we noticed him blocking out the sun.
That was what that drill corporal himself thought, for he got really angry with those persons who had thrown the bucketful of water over me.
If reports are to be believed, the Moon may have bucketloads of water.
400 pages of interrogations, once closely guarded as secrets of war, were discovered along with reams of other classified documents by a reporter.
I mentioned this on some other forum and got a bashful of comments.
un montón de dinero
a huge amount of money
They stand to gain or lose a huge amount of money depending on the scale to which the strategy is implemented.
valer un montón
cost + a bundle
The book is entitled 'Water Pollution Controls to Cost a Bundle'.
