in droves(listeners answered in droves • penguins are dying in droves • fans have turned up in droves • Taxes are increasing at out of control rates, price of Condos is set by the International Market (Particularly Asian Countries who are coming in droves) and we have crabs in a bucket mentality expanded as they dump more people on top of us. (vancouversun.com) • Hardworking people are leaving this province in droves because of low wages and high cost of living. Something has to be done. (Reddit)ART Vancouver)
by the score(used when the amount of something is known to be large Val_Ships); lots of(used when the amount of something is known to be large Val_Ships); in spades(from the game of bridge in which spades is the highest suit Val_Ships)
economist.com aldrignedigen); prolifically; on a large scale; in big numbers ("Stranger assaults, stabs three people in unprovoked attacks near False Creek." Happens again and again, yet people in Vancouver will line up to vote for the NDP in big numbers. That is exactly why I left. I can't even remember the last time Vancouver had a Mayor worth the salary. (Twitter) • They often descend on fields of thistles or wild sunflowers, where they cling to the dried flower heads, eating seeds. In winter they sometimes invade southward in big numbers, with flocks coming to feeders along with American Goldfinches. (audubon.org) ART Vancouver)