King marvelled at 'so much misdirected ingenuity', and was sometimes overwhelmed by the volume of her intelligence gathering.

So successful in fact that, overwhelmed by the volume of requests, he started faking the results.

Staff working in offices with high levels of sickness reported feeling overwhelmed by the volume of work they had to cover.

I spent a day trawling the site and ended up overwhelmed by the volume of documents and the grubbiness of what they reveal.

Wired telephone lines continued to work, although some systems were overwhelmed by the volume of traffic, and millions of home users had only cordless telephones depending on house current.