 Re: a large quantity of people?
Yes, depending on the context.
Large quantities of people have gone away for the holiday.
A large quantity of people has been trapped in the metro.
I personally do not like "large quantity of people" - quantity = something that is measurable in number, amount, size, or weight - and is not a word generally associated with"people"; number/numbers is more suitable.
The British National Corpus returns nothing from a search for the phrase. |