adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a huge/vast/immense fortune
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Timothy was the heir to a vast fortune.
enormous/tremendous/immense popularity
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the enormous popularity of Coca-Cola
great/enormous/immense pleasure
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Steinbeck’s books have brought enormous pleasure to many people.
great/immense/deep hardship (= a lot of hardship )
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In the early years, the settlers faced great hardship.
immense charm (= very great )
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No one could resist his immense charm.
immense pride (= very great )
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He takes immense pride in his grandson.
immense/enormous satisfaction (= very great )
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The victory gave him immense satisfaction.
sb's immense gratitude (= being very grateful )
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He would like everyone to know about his immense gratitude for all their work.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
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The infusion of desire that rushed her was so immense that she obeyed instantly, drawing her legs up to his hips.
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It was so immense it did not twist like the others but in supreme majesty made its way down the turbulent chute.
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The sky was so immense it swallowed the landscape, but the land swallowed up the provenance of the sky.
■ NOUN
amount
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He had been given and had himself taken an immense amount out of that mining culture.
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There is an immense amount of space, an intoxicating amount.
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Once again an immense amount of credit had been earned by Alec Stewart.
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One where the fuel weighed very little but delivered an immense amount of power.
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They do an immense amount of work which is frequently unsung or unnoticed.
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Childebert's dux Guntram Boso is said to have captured an immense amount of gold and silver when Gundovald fled from Avignon.
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People who travel by rail still read an immense amount .
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The Profitboss therefore puts an immense amount of work into determining his final position prior to the negotiation.
benefit
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This type of welfare can have immense benefit not only to the child but to the family as a whole.
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Five myths about exercise Given the immense benefits of exercise, why do so many students try to avoid it?
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Yet the schools in which this coming together of parent and teacher in the service of children occurred had immense benefits .
difficulty
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About the immense difficulty that would undoubtedly be experienced by rescue teams.
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Only great eagerness to learn, on the part of the people, will make it possible to overcome immense difficulties here.
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Not badly at all, given the immense difficulty of restoring credibility to Labour as a party of government.
effort
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But the achievement of all those goals will require an immense effort , and will not come without tears.
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It required an immense effort from the Kop defence and midfield to contain the visitors.
importance
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This demonstrates the immense importance of the detector in the overall performance of the zoned system.
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Yet, if one really considers it, what is at stake is of immense importance , and can not be ignored.
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In the Gulf war the United Nations played a part of immense importance .
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It is however, of immense importance , so to speak, from another angle.
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In either case, its initialling at Maastricht by Heads of Government on 10 December 1991 was an event of immense importance .
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His success will be of immense importance to each and every Bank Official in the future.
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Like the Council, we place immense importance on the outcome of last year's Earth Summit.
popularity
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That sense is still lacking on the World Wide Web, despite its immense popularity .
power
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Yet from that very still place immense power emerges.
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The United States had towns and industries that were already flourishing; it also had immense powers of persuasion and assimilation.
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He could sense an immense power enveloping the planet, and knew his death was only hours away.
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This ensures that the pilot does not use the immense power of hydraulically operated controls to over-stress the structure of his aeroplane.
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A magic-wielding character of immense power , the Great Enchanter lived for untold centuries.
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Hearing them live, you realised that their voices have immense power as well as great beauty.
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He gazed for a long time at the Prime Minister's empty chair, exulting in his own immense power .
pressure
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Mr Lamont declared the Tories stuck to their election pledges but he faces immense pressure to balance the books.
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He is under immense pressure to freeze benefit increases in the coming year for the jobless, the infirm, and pensioners.
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During the approaching round the time would come, inevitably, when he would have to play a shot under immense pressure .
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Open space has come under immense pressures from developments such as housing and road building, or neglected due to lack of resources.
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It's helping them to understand the immense pressures on them to stay for ever in the closet.
pride
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He loves his county and has taken immense pride in the wholesale jubilation at the football team's success.
relief
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The verdict came as an immense relief for Mr Major, who put his job on the line over the Maastricht Treaty.
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At these words, immense relief flooded me as the burden of lies I had helped create lifted off my shoulders.
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Male speaker Chiefly there's a feeling of immense relief .
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To their immense relief and great pleasure it played to capacity audiences.
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It was with immense relief that he drove in and killed the engine.
satisfaction
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I felt immense loss and immense satisfaction at the same time.
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Yet it is very simple to prepare and offers immense satisfaction for those who follow some simple guidelines.
size
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Squids grow to an immense size .
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The immense size and power of the Government of the United States ought not obscure its fundamental character.
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Only fragments remain but these show the immense size of the building, over 400 feet in length.
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At first, I thought it was because of his immense size .
value
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The mounting of school productions and active involvement in community or touring theatre initiatives are thus of immense value .
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Hierarchy has added immense value to the world, and pundits who call for its demise are either fools or cynics.
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These pilot studies are often of immense value in the design of more systematic and more extensive social surveys.
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The work of Ptolemy thus took on immense value because of its utility.
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Such dating methods are still of immense value today.
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I thoroughly recommend it as of immense value to students at every level.
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But still I feel that one more thing of immense value must have been taken away with that wagon.
variety
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Which came first and why should there be such an immense variety ?
wealth
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Hamilton was one of those unfortunate men who have inherited immense wealth but not a lot more.
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His campaign machine, oiled by his immense wealth , was superbly efficient under the management of his brother, Robert.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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60 million years ago, the whole area was an immense desert.
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an immense palace
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Migrating birds cover immense distances every winter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also, that in spite of the immense price difference between various designs, the basic china was of exactly the same high standard.
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Debates were abandoned in the 1964, 1968 and 1972 campaigns, largely because of candidates' concerns about their immense impact.
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His general attitude is one of an untiring and immense courtesy and helpfulness.
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It bears repeating that the photograph opens up an immense visual field.
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It was only a dim personification: something vague and immense which with its motion brought about change and therefore was alive.
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More than that, they were searching for a tiny trickle in an immense sea.
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Perhaps we are born with an immense desire for knowledge, which can be obtained from books.
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Which came first and why should there be such an immense variety?