I. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a better/greater/deeper understanding
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All of this will lead to a better understanding of the overseas market.
a big/great effort
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The government has made a big effort to tackle the problem of poverty.
a big/great influence
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The goalkeeper’s injury had a big influence on the match.
a big/great mistake
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Buying this car was a big mistake.
a big/great shock
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It was a great shock to find out he had been lying.
a big/great surprise
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The results were a big surprise.
a big/great thrill
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It was a great thrill for me to beat Federer.
a big/great/huge risk
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There is a great risk that the wound will become infected.
a big/great/major disadvantage
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This method has one major disadvantage: its cost.
a big/great/massive/huge advantage
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It’s a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish.
a big/great/splendid occasion
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The big occasion for country people was the Agricultural Fair.
a close/great/strong similarity
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There was a close similarity between his and Smith's views on education.
a crying/great/terrible shame
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It was a crying shame that they lost the game.
a fine/great performance
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There are fine performances by Kathy Bates and Daryl Hannah.
a good/fine/great actor
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He had a reputation as a fine actor.
a good/great sense of sth
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He is a popular boy with a good sense of humour.
a good/great start
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A 3-0 win is a good start for the team.
a good/great writer
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She was a very good writer.
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Dr Johnson was already a great writer at the age of thirty-five.
a good/great/wonderful etc feeling
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It's a great feeling when you try something new and it works.
a good/great/wonderful etc opportunity
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It's a great opportunity to try new things.
a great city (= very important and interesting )
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Cairo is one of the world's great cities.
a great civilization (= very important and interesting )
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the great civilizations of India and China
a great compliment
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He said he loved my paintings, which was a great compliment.
a great country (= important, with many past achievements )
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the great countries of Europe
a great cry literary (= a loud cry )
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With a great cry they charged into battle.
a great deal of interest (= a lot of interest )
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The exhibition has generated a great deal of interest.
a great deal
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You have caused a great deal of trouble.
a great empire (= large and powerful )
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The city was the centre of a great empire.
a great enemy
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Henry prepared to fight his great enemy, the king of France.
a great exaggeration (= by a large amount )
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To suggest that the company is facing bankruptcy is a great exaggeration.
a great favour
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He acted as though he’d done us a great favour by coming.
a great feast (= a large and impressive feast )
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A great feast took place at the palace.
a great guy
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Phil is a great guy and a lot of fun.
a great hero
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He finally got to meet his great hero, the Brazilian footballer, Pele.
a great honour
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It was a great honour to meet my hero in person.
a great inspiration
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My mother was a great inspiration to me.
a great many/a good many/very many (= a very large number )
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Most of the young men went off to the war, and a great many never came back.
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It all happened a good many years ago.
a great misfortune
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Everything they owned was lost in the fire, which was a great misfortune.
a great mountain (= a high, impressive mountain )
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Here, great mountains are all around.
a great mystery (= a big and important mystery )
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It is one of the great mysteries of science.
a great passion
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Birds were my great passion.
a great power
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Britain wanted to maintain her status as a great power.
a great quantity (= more formal than 'large' )
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The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture from Greece.
a great reader (= someone who reads a lot of books )
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My father was a great reader.
a great rival (= an important rival for a long time )
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Oxford and Cambridge University have always been great rivals
a great sin
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Possibly the greatest sin you can be guilty of is not speaking out against cruelty or injustice when you see it.
a great source
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In times of stress, food can be a great source of comfort.
a great storm literary:
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the great storm of 1997
a great strength
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Diversity is one of India's greatest strengths.
a great success
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Everyone agreed the picnic was a great success.
a great wave of sth
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A great wave of affection for him engulfed her.
a great wave (= a very large wave )
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The storm sent great waves crashing into the cliffs.
a great welcome (= a big or good welcome )
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Visitors were given a great welcome.
a great/advanced age (= a very old age )
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My aunt died at a great age.
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Kirby is not alone in wanting to run his own business at an advanced age.
a great/brilliant/excellent idea
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What a great idea!
a great/enormous/tremendous etc relief
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It was a great relief to him when she returned safely.
a greater incentive
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The scheme gives industry a greater incentive to tackle pollution.
a great/fine/impressive achievement (= one that deserves to be admired )
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Winning the award was a great achievement.
a great/greater evil
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He saw fascism as the greatest evil of his times.
a great/greater evil
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He saw fascism as the greatest evil of his times.
a great/huge demand (= very big )
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There is a huge demand for business software and services.
a great/huge/massive expansion (= very big )
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There are plans for a massive expansion of the oil and gas industries.
a great/major victory
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He said the court’s decision was a great victory.
a great/major/important discovery
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The archaeologists had made an important discovery.
a great/major/substantial benefit
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The new system will be a great benefit to the company.
a great/massive earthquake (= extremely big )
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1906 is remembered for the great earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.
a great/powerful nation
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The United States is the most powerful nation in the world.
a great/vast/major improvement (= very big )
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The new computer system was a vast improvement.
a heavy/great burden
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Caring for elderly relatives can be a heavy burden.
a huge/great/big sigh
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She heaved a great sigh.
a large/great number
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A large number of children were running around in the playground.
a large/great/huge/vast range
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A vast range of plants are used in medicines.
a long/great/considerable distance
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The sound of guns seemed a long distance away.
a main/biggest/greatest enemy
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Terrorism is our country’s main enemy.
a major/big/great worry
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Traffic congestion is not yet a major worry in the area.
a major/great contribution
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Tourism makes a major contribution to the local economy.
a strong/great sense of sth
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He had a strong sense of responsibility.
a terrible/great tragedy
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His death is a terrible tragedy for his family.
a wide/great/large variety
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They hold debates on a wide variety of topics.
at great/huge/considerable/vast expense (= used when saying that something costs a lot of money )
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The tiles were imported at great expense from Italy.
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Recently, and at vast expense to the taxpayer, the bridge was rebuilt.
at high/great speed
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The train was travelling at high speed.
big/great dreams (= a wish to achieve great things )
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She was a little girl with big dreams.
big/great trouble
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High interest rates spell big trouble for homeowners.
big/great
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Winning this competition could have a big impact on my life.
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His impact was greater than that of the Beatles.
considerable/great encouragement
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We took considerable encouragement from our early success.
considerable/greater latitude (= a lot of freedom to choose )
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Pupils enjoy considerable latitude in deciding what they want to study.
deep/great/fierce anger
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There is deep anger against the occupying forces.
good/great
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Over the years, we’ve developed a good relationship.
good/great
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That’s a great song!
grave/great/serious/severe misgivings (= serious and important worries )
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Most of us have grave misgivings about the idea of human cloning.
great amusement
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It caused great amusement when he told us what had happened.
great big (= extremely big )
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There was this great big spider in the sink.
great caution
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Exercise great caution when handling toxic waste.
great charm
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He was a man of great charm.
great comfort
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Your letters have been a great comfort to me.
great confusion
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We looked at each other in great confusion.
great courage
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The men had fought with great courage.
great credibility (= a lot of credibility )
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He has great credibility in Washington.
Great Dane
great danger
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I knew I was in great danger.
great delight
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It gave her great delight to tease him about his various girlfriends.
great determination
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She showed great determination to succeed.
great embarrassment
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To my great embarrassment, my dad started dancing.
great emotion
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She sings with great emotion.
great emphasis
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The company places great emphasis on customer care.
great expectations (= very high )
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Emigrants sailed to America with great expectations.
great faith
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He had great faith in his team.
great fame
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His acting ability brought him great fame.
great fun
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The show is great fun for all the family.
great happiness (= a lot of happiness )
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His grandchildren bring him great happiness.
great imagination
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His paintings show great imagination.
great inequality
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Great inequality exists between the rich and the poor.
great interest
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The government has shown great interest in the idea.
great joy
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To her great joy, she became the mother of two beautiful baby girls.
great loss
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We see your going as a great loss to the company.
great luxury
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She was used to a life of great luxury.
great mercy
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God in his great mercy has forgiven you.
great merit
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It seems to me that the idea has great merit.
great mystery
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We wondered about the great mystery of death.
great nostalgia (= a strong feeling of nostalgia )
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I read the college newsletter with great nostalgia.
great odds (= a lot of difficulties )
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We must hope that, despite great odds, we can achieve a peaceful settlement.
great optimism
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The team was in a mood of great optimism.
great originality
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His work showed great originality.
great passion
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The orchestra plays with great passion.
great patience
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Painting by this method requires great patience.
great popularity
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His great popularity with British audiences dates from that period.
great pride
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Caroline is pictured here holding the trophy with great pride.
great progress
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Scientists have made great progress in the last four years.
great promise
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He’d initially shown great promise as a goalkeeper.
great rejoicing
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There was great rejoicing at the victory.
great respect
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Rex and Joe had great respect for his judgement.
great sensitivity
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a teacher with great sensitivity
great strength
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She showed great strength in dealing with her problems.
great sympathy
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I have great sympathy for the people affected by the housing crisis.
great (= big )
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There has been a great increase in air traffic in the last twenty years.
great/big/high
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The rewards for those who invested at the right time are high.
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Some athletes took drugs because the rewards were great and they thought they could get away with it.
great/brilliant (= very good to watch )
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We're sure it's going to be another great match.
great/considerable ability
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He was a young man of great ability.
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These drawings required considerable ability on the part of the artist.
great/considerable anxiety
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Then began a day of great anxiety.
great/considerable detail
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The subject has already been studied in great detail.
great/considerable freedom
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Teachers are given considerable freedom to choose their teaching methods.
great/considerable resentment
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There was great resentment among the workforce.
great/considerable significance
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The judge said the new evidence was of great significance.
great/considerable skill (= a lot of skill )
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He played with great skill.
great/considerable success
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This plant can be grown by the absolute beginner with great success.
great/considerable/enormous importance
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Crime rates have great importance for the government.
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Some people attach enormous importance to personal wealth.
great/considerable/enormous
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Staff experienced considerable stress as a result of the changes.
great/considerable/exceptional talent
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He had a great talent for making money.
great/considerable/severe strain
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The country’s health system is under great strain.
great/deep admiration (= that you feel strongly )
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He’s a man for whom I have the greatest admiration.
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She had a deep admiration for the work of Russian writers.
great/deep concentration
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My work demands great concentration.
great/deep regret
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I accepted his resignation with great regret.
great/deep sadness
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She sensed Beth’s deep sadness.
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It was with great sadness that we learned of his death.
great/deep satisfaction
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It was hard work, but it gave her great satisfaction.
great/deep sorrow
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a time of great sorrow
great/deep/extreme reluctance
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He said the firm had made the job cuts with great reluctance.
great/deep/strong loyalty
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She was admired for her deep loyalty to her colleagues.
great/enormous strength
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Hercules was famous for his great strength.
great/enormous/considerable potential
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This is a team with great potential.
great/enormous/immense pleasure
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Steinbeck’s books have brought enormous pleasure to many people.
great/enormous/tremendous excitement
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There is great excitement about the Pope's visit.
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The news causes tremendous excitement.
greater glory (= more fame and admiration )
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He aimed to bring greater glory to France.
greater use
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We want to encourage employees to make greater use of the sports facilities.
greater/better protection
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The law should give greater protection to victims.
greater/increased efficiency
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In a search for greater efficiency, the two departments have merged.
great/good
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The country has a great future.
great/grave/serious peril
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The economy is now in grave peril.
great/huge/deep disappointment
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There was great disappointment when we lost the game.
great/huge/enormous
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The central banks have huge power.
great/immense/deep hardship (= a lot of hardship )
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In the early years, the settlers faced great hardship.
great/intense curiosity
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His disappearance had obviously aroused great curiosity.
great/major controversy
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That decision was the second major controversy of the Prime Minister's career.
great/massive destruction
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Much of the city was rebuilt after the massive destruction of World War II.
great/much/considerable enthusiasm
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There was considerable enthusiasm for the idea of a party.
great/serious/considerable concern
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The spread of the disease is an issue of considerable concern.
great/serious/significant harm
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If you drink too much alcohol, you can do yourself serious harm.
great/strong
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His one great desire in life was to own a Mercedes.
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The desire was too strong to resist.
great/strong
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There is a strong temptation to ignore all the potential problems.
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The temptation was too great for her to resist.
great/wonderful news
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They're getting married? That's wonderful news!
have great/deep/a lot of etc admiration
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She always had great admiration for people who could speak so many languages.
held in great affection (= loved and cared about a lot )
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The church was held in great affection by the local residents.
hold sb in high/great esteem
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The critics held him in high esteem as an actor.
impressive/significant/great etc accomplishment
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Cutting the budget was an impressive accomplishment.
in good/fine/great form
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He’s been in good form all this season.
in great depth
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The subject was discussed in great depth .
in great/grand/fine etc style
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Nadal won the match in fine style, not losing a single game.
international/great/popular/public etc acclaim
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Their recordings have won great acclaim .
little/lower/high/greater etc likelihood
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There was very little likelihood of her getting the job.
make great/major/giant etc strides
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The government has made great strides in reducing poverty.
massive/great/huge etc influx
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a large influx of tourists in the summer
matter a lot/a great deal
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It mattered a great deal to her what other people thought of her.
much better/greater/easier etc
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Henry’s room is much bigger than mine.
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These shoes are much more comfortable.
of great value
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These drugs are of great value in treating cancer.
of great/such etc eminence
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a scientist of great eminence
oh, good/great
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Oh, good, you’re still here.
owe sb a lot/owe sb a great deal
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‘I owe my parents a lot,’ he admitted.
quantum/great/huge etc leap
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a quantum leap very great increase or change in population levels
sb’s great ambition
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He didn’t achieve his greatest ambition – to be Wimbledon Champion.
sb’s greatest/deepest wish ( also sb’s dearest wish British English ) (= what they want most of all )
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Her greatest wish was to see her parents again.
sb’s worst/greatest fear
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Her worst fear was never seeing her children again.
significantly better/greater/worse etc
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Delia’s work has been significantly better this year.
taste good/nice/delicious/great
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The apples weren’t very big but they tasted good.
the best/greatest etc that/who ever lived (= the best, greatest etc who has been alive at any time )
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He’s probably the best journalist who ever lived.
the greatest/biggest threat
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The greatest threat to our planet is global warming.
the main/biggest/greatest etc obstacle
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The biggest obstacle to women's equality was social expectations of male and female roles.
the vast/great plain(s)
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Beyond lay the vast plains of the Central Valley.
to a greater extent (= more )
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Children suffer the effects of poor diet to a greater extent than adults.
to a large/great extent (= a large amount )
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The materials we use will depend to a large extent on what is available.
travel a great/long etc distance
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In some countries children must travel great distances to school each day.
truly great
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a truly great work of medieval literature
walloping great/big
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a walloping great house
with great relish
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I ate with great relish , enjoying every bite.
with great/considerable ease (= very easily )
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The car handles these mountain roads with great ease.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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even
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It will enable us to focus our activities and give us even greater clarity of purpose.
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Though the streets had been cleared, the plow had knocked an even greater pile of snow on to the vehicle.
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It had already produced great wars and upheavals; even greater ones were to come.
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Further investigations will reveal a last-minute change of plan, bringing the ever popular Syd Little to an even greater public.
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The morass in Washington has gained even greater attention as bond investors have little economic news on which to focus.
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Arcane bookkeeping procedures, however, probably conceal an even greater amount.
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These decrease absorption of calcium from the intestine and have an even greater impact on lowering calcium excretion by the kidneys.
far
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The unification of the mind is far greater than the resolving of the dichotomy alone.
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The authority they exercise is far greater than anyone could have dreamed of in the pre-1985 organi-zation.
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Indeed I think it is true to say the technical know-how required then was far greater than it is now.
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She says the spiritual poverty of the West is far greater than the physical poverty of the so-called developing countries.
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Is not the reality that there is a far greater interest at present in a mortgages-to-rents scheme?
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Y., chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, suggests the sum involved was far greater than previously estimated.
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If pushed too hard at this critical moment he could impose emergency rule and provoke far greater strife.
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And in the face of a challenge far greater than athletic competition, she never lost her composure.
much
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The percentage of imputed households nationally is about 2%, but the problem is much greater in inner-city areas.
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The annual tab for direct medical liability costs is about $ 7 billion, but indirect costs are much greater .
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These pressures are much greater among the young who are attempting to find their own accommodation for the first time.
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But the significance of the Nonjurors was much greater than their numbers might suggest.
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But for a big landscape, a plane is a major advantage because you can cover much greater distances.
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If a claim is lost in court, the pain, loss and damage suffered by the haulier is obviously much greater .
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Both interviewer and respondent are allowed much greater leeway in asking and answering questions than is the case with the structured interview.
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In the drawing this is indicated by the much greater width of the new pattern.
so
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Interest had been so great that they had not got around to marketing the idea elsewhere.
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The plant-closing thing is so great .
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For there was about her cage a silence and stillness so great that it seemed as if she had disappeared.
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She had Oliver draw the curtains, but then the heat was so great that they suffered at a slow boil.
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Why should this make so great a difference?
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And the pain was so great that it lingers still.
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The force of their own gravity is so great that their collapse can not be halted at all.
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My hunger became so great my legs shook.
too
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To stare at an empty vastness would be dispiriting; perhaps also it would bring about too great a sense of isolation.
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The damage was too great to save his hands.
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The potential is too great to ignore-and the hazards too serious to be underestimated.
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Some of them fight well, but their bad leadership puts you at too great a risk.
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Yet there is more which the Government could do without too great an increase in public borrowing or putting up taxes.
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To get our bearings, first he has me shoot from a distance too great to reach my target.
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The risks of peacemaking seemed too great .
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The cost for any man of transporting his own child to school every day was far too great .
very
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He has very great merit in many respects.
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Of course it has, and a very great value, indeed.
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Thanks again for your very great help over the questionnaires.
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The weight of the evidence against the scanning hypothesis for REMs is very great .
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He insists on very great freedom to choose, even when there is stark and utter contradiction between the rival approaches.
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Moore claims that this is precisely the role played by pleasure in all very great goods with which we are familiar.
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In a literary sense, those were very great years indeed.
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advantage
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We can see by reference to the Salomon case the great advantage of limited liability.
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Even an only child feels that other children have some great advantages over him, and this makes him intensely jealous.
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A hairless chest would have been a great advantage for a bisexual like myself.
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Take greater advantage of federal money that pays for many services.
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I have always found it a great advantage to loathe my political opponents.
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The great advantage , they think, is that everyone is in touch.
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The great advantage of the Word-Maker is that the word can be corrected without confusing the speller by crossings out and insertions.
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People who have played in the orchestra have a great advantage .
care
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I would fold it up with great care every morning.
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Notice that you should treat the new motherboard with great care as it can easily be damaged.
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Honda uses great care to make the goals reasonable and attainable, and the top leaders are especially sensitive in that regard.
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An audit of unplanned pregnancies seen in one practice also emphasised the need for great care in counselling people using the pill.
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Carotid sinus massage should be done with great care in patients for whom this diagnosis is suspected.
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The advice is, therefore, pick your pear varieties with great care .
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Be careful with toxic substances and always follow the directions on the bottles with great care .
danger
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The greater danger is that there may be an even wider cultural gap growing between the two philosophies of rugby.
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What is the greatest danger that this may portend?
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If the pain becomes acute, the cat knows that it is in great danger .
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The greatest danger , therefore, was in eating too much.
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That campaign is racist in intent and is against the interests of people who are seeking asylum from situations of great danger .
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They concluded that she would be exposed to great danger from a splinter of flax.
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Are New Agers just simply home-grown nature-lovers, or are they one of the greatest dangers to confront Christendom?
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The very asteroids that present the greatest danger to us are also the most accessible bodies in the solar system.
deal
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This technique has had a great deal of impact in computer programming where it in systems analysis and design.
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He spends a great deal of the day in the cellars or on his bed; nothing pleases or entertains him.
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The shop had been standing empty for some time, and needed a great deal of work.
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There was a great deal of communal self-help in the Engineering School.
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In 1975 he taught a great deal and wrote a conceptual study book for the drums.
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There is not a great deal of readable prose in the field.
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But this dichotomy is, itself, a great deal of the trouble in St Ann's.
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Two issues produced a great deal of agitation in the country.
demand
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The dance is a comic interlude, quite short and making no great demands on technique.
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A company representative said they had not anticipated the great demand for Metrodin.
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Iznik pottery of the sixteenth century was again in great demand .
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Workplace 2000 will undoubtedly place greater demands on workers for performance.
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Once production was under way there came a great demand for the engines from the ore mines of Cornwall.
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In developed countries, an increase in income no longer leads to greater demand for food.
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Cattle in great demand selling to 165.5.
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The company also showed off a new 166-megahertz Pentium Presario computer by launching games that place great demands on the processor.
depth
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They secrete lime, forming stony cushions near the shores of the Pool and teetering columns at greater depths .
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It always amazes me that animals reach the surface alive from great depths .
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When the heart has great depths , no surface storms can affect its clarity.
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It is the second point which we should reexamine now in greater depth .
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It can be sold mild when young, or matured to a greater depth of flavour.
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Primitive, yes, but with great insight, great depth .
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With a high performance car a greater depth is required.
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In the third and fourth years, a wider range of authors is studied in greater depth .
difficulty
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The umpire, who was having great difficulty controlling his dapple-grey pony, hurled the ball in.
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Next, go around the group and have each client describe the setting in which they have the greatest difficulty refusing drinks.
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And yet young deaf students have great difficulty in getting a place at university.
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These two problems may merge to produce even greater difficulties for prospective councillors.
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A greater difficulty of using whole hops is the effect on consistency.
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Travis raced to the Gormans' cottage and with great difficulty told the distressed couple what had happened.
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It was only with the greatest difficulty that the crew managed to carry out an emergency landing at Detroit.
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First, even critics of privatisation have the greatest difficulty in defending the existing position.
distance
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As a modern, you located the stars at a great distance .
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Big drop-offs in the use of contraceptives occur when women have to invest more time and traverse greater distances to get them.
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I could see my hand, lying palm upwards and seemingly a great distance from me.
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Then, as if from a great distance , there came the sound of a voice unlike any he had ever heard.
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But for a big landscape, a plane is a major advantage because you can cover much greater distances .
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But impact events can eject rock chips to great distances from their point of origin.
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The black and white stripes of the skunks act as a powerful deterrent, even from a great distance .
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A fiber optic system can send its signals greater distances and with less signal degradation than can the traditional coaxial system.
effect
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The task of management is to use these to greatest effect .
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If we keep advocating our positions honestly, consistently, persuasively, we ultimately have a great effect .
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By far the greatest effect on the crude mortality rates was when mortality rates due to immaturity were adjusted for low birth rate.
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The possibility of a similar or greater effect in young children who listen to music has not been tested.
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The threefold model of church growth of cell, congregation and celebration works at Ichthus to great effect .
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Three different palladium rods were tried of various diameters: the thickest rod gave by far the greatest effect .
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These then, have by far the greatest effect on living things.
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A black diffused area underlines this golden strip to great effect .
extent
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Channel structure To a great extent a manufacturer's choice of distributive intermediaries is governed by the members in that channel.
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I think architects are to a great extent inspired by their clients.
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The move provides several benefits: Work can, to a greater extent , be proactive rather than reactive.
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To a great extent , Robert Ory shares the same view.
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Moreover, within these areas workers were concentrated in large enterprises to a far greater extent than in the West.
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During the cold war, and to a great extent because of it, the colonial world achieved political independence.
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Differentiated labour meant that people now differed from each other to a much greater extent , including in their consciences.
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Jefferson had obviously set out to design the ultimate high-tech putter and had, to a great extent , succeeded.
fun
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That has all been great fun .
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Of course, I am delighted to be in, and have great fun up there....
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In beautifully landscaped settings, this unique zoo is great fun for all the family.
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Following in the footsteps of the great ones is great fun .
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This is just a whim but it is great fun .
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It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated.
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Those doing it wouldn't necessarily agree, although most find it varied, exciting and often great fun .
help
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The greatest help in setting a strategy is a hefty slice of cynicism and the openness of mind to re-examine cherished beliefs.
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But Temin does not really claim that the Fed was of great help .
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And you have the framework of your story ready made for you, a great help to the beginner.
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FiltrationA filter is of great help in keeping water free of suspended material, but it does not alleviate a polluted condition.
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On the first point, I think it is a wonderful move and a great help to the amateur game.
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His superstar charisma will be of great help in making the Giants' new ballpark become a reality for that 2000 season.
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They know Britain well, and will be of great help to you.
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In this chapter it has been argued that the uncertainty map can be of great help in managing such a portfolio.
idea
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And then we thought what a great idea for a book.
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Like all great ideas , it generated internal controversies.
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I sighed and tumbled on a great idea .
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Ideas are everything in a fragmented global marketplace, and great ideas demand a diverse work force.
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Where else did the great idea come from?
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Sounds like a great idea to me.
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So now, chéri, tell me this great idea of yours.
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And in the process we stumbled across a great idea , an entirely new security.
importance
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It is a matter of great importance , on which the Government are at it again.
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We see this as a national event of great importance and we are lending it our full support.
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That is a matter of great importance .
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Claims are frequently of great importance both to the contractor and the client.
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Lewes alone seems to have grown to any great importance in the pre-Conquest years.
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Another initiative of great importance for the future is the Community Education project.
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The status and availability of the original speaker is therefore of great importance in deciding whether to publish the remark.
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They feel nurture is of infinitely greater importance than nature.
interest
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He took a great interest in the dissemination of science to the public.
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It is too Complicated a combustion system to be of great interest from a fundamental standpoint.
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The latter have produced wild flowers and butterflies which are of great interest to visitors and school children.
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The discovery that Roman law had anticipated the position in modern equity is of great interest .
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My hon. Friend knows of my great interest in further improving the resources available for housing associations.
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I listened to that with great interest .
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Sometimes he stopped at the fireplace, and sometimes at the door, pretending to stare with great interest into shop windows.
job
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He's intelligent, good-looking, great job , etc.
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It did a great job conveying the emotion of that scene.
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They have been successful in bringing in inward investment and greater job opportunities in those countries.
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Dwayne did a great job and I told him that.
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Graduates enjoy greater job opportunities than those entering employment direct from school.
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Valentin did a great job as the No. 2 hitter last year.
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Round here, there's not that many great jobs on offer.
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But he has done a great job filling in for Andre Reed.
length
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Cecil had expressed his own attitude at great length and less clarity a year or two before this.
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Yet Phillips climbed the wall anyway, went to great lengths to hurt his ex-girlfriend.
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It is likely that Celsus discussed the matter at greater length , and with greater clarity.
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When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
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The service developments which followed the Home Support Project will be discussed at greater length in the final chapter.
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Presidential families have gone to great lengths before to preserve the privacy of their personal correspondence.
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I could continue at great length .
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Thacker had considered this problem at great length when testing his chronometer.
majority
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The great majority of the children recovered very quickly after a quarrel and showed no evidence of resentment.
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The great majority , once they breach the system and hear the telltale whine, are out of there like a shot.
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The great majority of these are in lower socio-economic groups.
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Anthropologists point out that within the great majority of agricultural communities grandmothers and older children take care of the young.
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The great majority of the vessels made were simpler.
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The great majority of companies in the construction industry are companies limited by shares, to which this chapter refers.
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Such a question would inevitably be negatively answered by the great majority of people.
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The general impression of investigators is that the great majority of the graduates, in spite of certain difficulties, enjoy their work.
man
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He was, genuinely, a great man , a leader, he had so much size.
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I had never seen the great man himself.
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The great man congratulated me on knowing where they were.
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The great man himself is now 95 and too frail for any involvement.
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He alone of all the Lionisers was unmoved by illusions of great men .
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Male speaker A very great man , who contributed to every area of politics and never avoided making difficult decisions.
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But,in accordancewith inflexible routine, the great man had already retired for the night.
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I would wear rags and live upon rye bread and water rather than be a harlot to the greatest man in the world.
number
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Radio has therefore proved less restrictive, being able to reach many more individuals through a greater number of languages.
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We are in favor of abortion rights and reproductive freedom in greater numbers than men.
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The greatest number I have ever encountered in a single dead-end is nine.
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It goes without saying that this intolerance does not arise where the aquarium is planted with a greater number of species.
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It was a great number and they took notice of him even though he was just on his own.
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In 1608 famed explorer Captain John Smith reported that great numbers of wild ducks abounded.
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In this, great numbers of grain-like spores are produced.
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But vastly greater numbers of smaller bodies accompany the larger and more easily discovered ones.
part
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But who cares when you're waiting to play your greatest part ... as a mum.
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During the greater part of each contest, the two are settled in a squat position, measuring each other.
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The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited.
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No council can hope to sack a large portion of its staff, who take the greater part of its expenditure.
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For by far the greater part , the aesthetic is bracketed in the name of a robust historical materialism.
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It is these that make up the greater part of the transcribed conversations in Appendix 2 of this book.
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The greater part of the underclass consists of members of minority groups, blacks or people of Hispanic origin.
pleasure
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Had I an opportunity I should have great pleasure in giving you a few hints on this subject which might not be useless.
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Successfully managing your business relationships, while making money doing what you enjoy, is one of the great pleasures of life.
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Special festivals A friend of mine goes every year to the Mozart Festival in Vienna, it is her greatest pleasure .
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I have also seen with great pleasure an inter-change of historical pageants between various groups.
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It is with great pleasure that I now enclose a copy of the video film made of the first semi-final round.
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Rockefeller is said to have monitored the struggle at Ludlow with great pleasure .
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One of our greatest pleasures was collecting early morning provisions from the farm.
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In the event, it was a great pleasure .
sense
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Anna felt a great sense of relief.
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Within a few months she was able to resume her normal life with new coping skills and a greater sense of self-affirmation.
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People with Down's love to be involved with whatever's going on and have a great sense of fun and community.
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Today we are rightly demanding a greater sense of satisfaction and achievement not just a weekly paycheck.
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There wasn't actually a great sense of option or choice.
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Which is weird because Carter seems like such a happy guy, a congenial man with a great sense of humor.
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But also there's a great sense of doorstep rebellion, and stamping of feet.
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His marriage turned upside down, William feels a great sense of liberation.
significance
▪
Adam Smith's view of the great significance of transport developments in increasing the wealth of the nation has been much quoted.
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And no October day carries greater significance than the last day of my favorite month, October 31, Halloween.
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During his reign Edgar made one decision which was to have great significance later.
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The fourfold division of consciousness has therefore great significance .
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However, of great significance was the information displayed in the transformed images.
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We also suggest that the kind of mix that results has great significance for the stability and performance of the political system.
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Secondly, in family abuse, the history of the relationships may be of great significance in current abuse.
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What is of greater significance for our analysis is the heavily personal nature of campaigning for today's congress.
strength
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His greater strength over mine would have sent the boat turning round and round in circles.
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To anyone other than a critic this would be its greatest strength .
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It is in this that the great strength of ethnographic research lies.
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All political candidates are men of the moment, and all capitalize on their greatest strength .
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Such hags were ugly, with massive twisted features and great strength .
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In some cases it also helped to underline the main moments in the action by emphasising gestures for greater strength and expression.
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Whatever had done this to him had great strength .
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Local inspectors, on the other hand, can rightly argue that this is their great strength .
success
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The son who has the greatest success will inherit the lot.
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We have also had great success with grapevine cuttings and herb sprigs, such as basil and thyme.
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They ran their own open day for local businesses, which was a great success .
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In Camp Montgomery he had his first great success .
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McGowan's great success this series was Madeley and his amazingly fluid phalanges.
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He did have to pull the troops out, announcing as he did so that the operation had been a great success .
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Many of the lords are jealous of your great success against Blefuscu, and Flimnap still hates you.
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In all too many companies, reengineering has been not only a great success , but also a great failure.
thing
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The great thing is to spend time experimenting and trying different things.
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He hoped to escape El Paso, do great things , and return home a hero.
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Even so, his grand accommodation suggests that great things are in store for him.
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It is a great thing to be present at the making of history.
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One of the great things about these utilities is the frequency with which they're updated.
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Now, I didn't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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When to love each other is greatest thing in life?
value
▪
Of course it has, and a very great value , indeed.
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For great skin at great value , Clinique has the answer.
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Hence the great value of this teaching in ordinary life.
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Structural and geochemical studies are of the greatest value in the Northern Highlands.
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However, newspaper advertising can be of great value to the shopper for food.
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Child reductions Lakes and Mountain holidays are great holidays for families; and with fantastic child reductions, great value too!
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These elements are of great value in making life-support materials, propellants, and industrial chemical reagents.
variety
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There is also an increasing trend towards greater variety in family formations.
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We believe the gas-coal displacement option also opens a great variety of possibilities.
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There's a great variety of bracken, ferns and other plant life.
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Capitals and Columns Byzantine capitals show great variety of form and detail.
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They point out that in practice there is great variety in corporate activities, even within one sector.
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It was the great achievement of natural selection to explain the even greater variety of living species, including man.
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Notable gardens of great variety , including fine old cedars and specimen trees, herbaceous borders, water and wild gardens.
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At the Wednesday market an open-air auction of poultry, farm produce and second-hand items of great variety is conducted.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great/good deal
▪
A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
▪
In the last ten years, we have learned a great deal more about this interplay.
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Neither girl took a great deal of interest in me.
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One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti-headhunting views to paper.
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She spoke a great deal about poetry.
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Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation.
▪
The movement of earthworms throughout layers can also cause a great deal of disruption, blurring the divisions.
▪
Very frequently, speechwriters are recruited from the ranks of journalism, which accounts for a great deal .
at (some/great etc) length
▪
All the torments of the one class and the joys of the other are described at length .
▪
An example may, in consequence, be worth considering at some length .
▪
Moreover, they were journalists from a premier worldwide newsgathering organization, playing themselves and at great length in a feature-film fantasy.
▪
Standing in the farmyard, Giles Aplin also spoke to Seb at some length .
▪
The criteria employed for the weeding process are discussed at some length in Chapter 11.
▪
The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay.
▪
Their objections, based on religious grounds, are discussed at length in the opinion.
▪
This argument is both diversionary and, at length , immobilizing.
at a great/fair lick
be a (great/firm) believer in sth
▪
Daley was a firm believer in the bootstrap theory.
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He was a firm believer in the power of prayer.
▪
He was a great believer in expressing aggression, not bottling it up.
▪
Lampard was a great believer in eating whenever you could.
▪
Letterman is a believer in the immigrant mentality.
▪
Molly was a believer in homeopathy and underwent her last operation and subsequent treatment in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
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She is a believer in fundamentals, in technique.
▪
Tip is a firm believer in fate, and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him.
be heavy/great with child
▪
But my wife is great with child !
be in good/fine/great etc form
▪
At least he is in good form again.
▪
Davies, now in his 80s, is in fine form .
▪
Fortunately, Alan Judge was in fine form , pulling off a great save to keep Hereford in the game.
▪
Health Management Associates Inc., known as the Wal-Mart of hospital operators, appears to be in fine form .
▪
I was in good form that night.
▪
Office manager is on holiday this week., and assistant manager are in good form .
▪
That is our strength and our forwards are in good form at the moment.
dirty great/dirty big
fall from a great height
▪
Along this curve it is as if the plane were freely falling from a great height.
▪
As it was, the extremely small head of some dinosaurs no doubt reduced the dangers of falling from a great height.
▪
That particular experience left me with a recurrent dream about falling from great heights.
▪
When they fell from grace, George Best fell from a greater height.
go to some/great/any lengths (to do sth)
▪
Both want to steal the show and they are going to great lengths to do it.
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Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.
▪
Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.
▪
George Bush went to great lengths to keep out of his way on the campaign trail.
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The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery.
▪
When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
▪
Who knows whether Oppenheimer went to any lengths to find anyone who had anything good to say about Stewart.
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Yet Phillips climbed the wall anyway, went to great lengths to hurt his ex-girlfriend.
great white chief
greater/more/better etc than the sum of its parts
▪
Or is the organisation more than the sum of its parts?
have high/great hopes for sb/sth
new/great/dizzy etc heights
▪
And they all jump on me from great heights till corns on my hand seem like the fringe benefits of delirious joy.
▪
Fried quail reaches new heights in this recipe.
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I wave a fluttery wave of inconsequential cheerfulness and close the door, having reached new heights of cynical disinterest.
▪
In spite of a keen desire to reach greater heights , progress is hindered by poor practice methods which make improvement slow and frustrating.
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In the Upper Devonian, club mosses and horsetails grew to great heights .
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The stock market is soaring to new heights .
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Thereafter, the growth of the population reached dizzy heights .
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Under his leadership, the radios reached new heights of effectiveness.
no great shakes
▪
He's no great shakes as a singer.
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At school I was no great shakes at it, or anything.
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It is very simply made and no great shakes as a piece of cinema.
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Secondly, and crucially, Professor Griff is no great shakes as a rapper.
not amount to much/anything/a great deal etc
not/never be (a great) one for (doing) sth
of great moment
▪
Barry is a good writer, even when he is not writing about things of great moment .
sb is (great/good) fun
▪
But it is fun for me to look up from my Sunday paper and watch them try to cope.
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Chasing and racing is fun for a time but you end up yearning for something different.
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In beautifully landscaped settings, this unique zoo is great fun for all the family.
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It is fun to have competitions to see who can sleep their yo-yo longer.
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Much of the film is fun , but a lot is confusing.
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Some of this is great fun , but it pulls the production two ways, blunting its focus.
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This is fun , unfussy, honest fare that calls for a glass of cold beer.
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This is just a whim but it is great fun .
set great/considerable etc store by sth
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Being thus disappointed, I now set great store by what the first night might bring.
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Bourbon producers set great store by the soft local water which passes through limestone on its way to the distilleries.
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Britain had previously set great store by the Lisbon economic summit two years ago, but progress has subsequently been slow.
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He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension.
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It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly.
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Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations.
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The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial.
show sth to (good/great) advantage
▪
He has joined to a fine genius all that can set him off and show him to advantage .
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It may be that the product would be shown off to best advantage in use.
take/go to (great) pains to do sth
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However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.
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Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing: that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true.
the (Great) Depression
▪
Besides, labor disgraced itself in the Great Depression .
▪
High scores on the depression scale suggest that treatment other than anxiety management might also be considered.
▪
In the midst of the Depression , none of the Gennaros does anything to support the family.
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In the very depths of the Depression the owner decided to build a new theater.
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Keynes was intuitively convinced that public works would lift Britain out of the depression .
▪
She earned up to $ 250 per speech, a handsome sum during the Great Depression .
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The lowered mood itself increases access to negative memories, serving to maintain the depression .
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They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression .
the (great) outdoors
▪
a love of the great outdoors
▪
Dave Weatherley has been involved in the outdoors all his life.
▪
Following the annual migration of food preparation to the outdoors is the perennial question: How shall these delicacies be washed down?
▪
I spent the afternoon working hard, but feeling in communion with the outdoors .
▪
In the great outdoors , the merit of any feats become meaningless.
▪
Save it for the garden or the great outdoors .
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This is all the stuff of magic dreams for people who love the outdoors .
▪
Try to be as tolerant with the views of other human beings as you are with the great outdoors .
the Great Western
the best/greatest thing since sliced bread
▪
Now, I didn't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
the greater/major part of sth
▪
But people tend to drink caffeine on a regular basis over long periods of time-often the greater part of a lifetime.
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For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century.
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Her objective was to acquire Transylvania, and she now at once invaded that country and quickly occupied the greater part of it.
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I already had a stitch scar running the greater part of my left leg.
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Many of those who call themselves farmers because they still own land derive the major part of their incomes from non-agricultural occupations.
▪
No council can hope to sack a large portion of its staff, who take the greater part of its expenditure.
▪
The filtered beer is tank conditioned, but the greater part of output has a secondary fermentation in the bottle.
▪
Their discussion comprises the major part of the story, with the Professore arguing the old dialectical materialist line.
time is a great healer/heals all wounds
to good/great/no etc effect
▪
And the book eschews alphabetical order in favour of thematic logic - to good effect .
▪
Any ball direct to deane was usually flicked on to no effect .
▪
But nobody demonized the opposition to greater effect than did Clinton strategist James Carville during the 1992 presidential campaign.
▪
Jones has turned the Trust's restrictions on the use of agrochemicals to good effect .
▪
The bi-colour l.e.d. can utilise a transparent lens-clip to good effect .
▪
The task of management is to use these to greatest effect .
▪
The threefold model of church growth of cell, congregation and celebration works at Ichthus to great effect .
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Video is a relatively new medium for in-house communications and is used by some companies to great effect .
to the (greater) glory of sb/sth
▪
Bach composed to the greater glory of God.
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But to be perfectly frank, Stevens, I wasn't paying much attention to the glories of nature.
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In its place, they were erecting a flamboyant, terracotta cathedral to the glory of the Prudential Insurance company.
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Six miles further is Lake Trasimeno, gateway to the glories of Umbria.
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The exterior of Byzantine churches is plain and simple; its appearance is ceded to the glory of the interior.
whacking great
with (the greatest) respect/with (all) due respect
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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""Did you have a good holiday?'' ""It was great !''
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"Let's have a barbecue," "That's a great idea."
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"You want to go to a movie instead?" "Yeah, great , why not!"
▪
"Your car won't be ready until next week." "Oh, great ! I need it tomorrow."
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a great lady
▪
an excellent film
▪
As far as the eye could see, there stretched a great herd of buffalo.
▪
Ella Fitzgerald was the greatest jazz singer ever.
▪
I feel great this morning!
▪
I have great difficulty in reading without my glasses.
▪
I was never really a great one for sport as a child.
▪
It'd be great if you could come.
▪
It would be of great assistance if customers could have the exact money ready.
▪
Like great sailing ships, the clouds sped across the sky.
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Many of our great works of art are being sold and exported.
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McEnroe was possibly the greatest tennis player of all time.
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Olivier was a great actor.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He had squandered his great gifts of talent, intellect, and personal magnetism.
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Here he had much greater scope than in London's country.
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It is actively looking for more pilot schemes to identify the greater efficiencies needed and the best options available for waste collection.
▪
Maria del Carmen Asencio, a great activist and a good friend of mine, was among them.
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Other sights: If you grow bored with the great outdoors or just want to warm up, you have many options.
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That is a matter of great importance.
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The greatest pleasure comes when caddie and player are in perfect synchronization.
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The point is, we get great information all the time about what is good and bad for us.
II. noun
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a great/good deal
▪
A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
▪
In the last ten years, we have learned a great deal more about this interplay.
▪
Neither girl took a great deal of interest in me.
▪
One particular candidate responding to the survey went to a great deal of trouble to commit his decidedly anti-headhunting views to paper.
▪
She spoke a great deal about poetry.
▪
Teachers also received a great deal of support and help from both popular organizations and from communities to ease their situation.
▪
The movement of earthworms throughout layers can also cause a great deal of disruption, blurring the divisions.
▪
Very frequently, speechwriters are recruited from the ranks of journalism, which accounts for a great deal .
at (some/great etc) length
▪
All the torments of the one class and the joys of the other are described at length .
▪
An example may, in consequence, be worth considering at some length .
▪
Moreover, they were journalists from a premier worldwide newsgathering organization, playing themselves and at great length in a feature-film fantasy.
▪
Standing in the farmyard, Giles Aplin also spoke to Seb at some length .
▪
The criteria employed for the weeding process are discussed at some length in Chapter 11.
▪
The distinctions between kinds of complex idea are considered at some length in the Essay.
▪
Their objections, based on religious grounds, are discussed at length in the opinion.
▪
This argument is both diversionary and, at length , immobilizing.
at a great/fair lick
be a (great/firm) believer in sth
▪
Daley was a firm believer in the bootstrap theory.
▪
He was a firm believer in the power of prayer.
▪
He was a great believer in expressing aggression, not bottling it up.
▪
Lampard was a great believer in eating whenever you could.
▪
Letterman is a believer in the immigrant mentality.
▪
Molly was a believer in homeopathy and underwent her last operation and subsequent treatment in the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital.
▪
She is a believer in fundamentals, in technique.
▪
Tip is a firm believer in fate, and in 1961 the finger pointed in the right direction for him.
be heavy/great with child
▪
But my wife is great with child !
be in good/fine/great etc form
▪
At least he is in good form again.
▪
Davies, now in his 80s, is in fine form .
▪
Fortunately, Alan Judge was in fine form , pulling off a great save to keep Hereford in the game.
▪
Health Management Associates Inc., known as the Wal-Mart of hospital operators, appears to be in fine form .
▪
I was in good form that night.
▪
Office manager is on holiday this week., and assistant manager are in good form .
▪
That is our strength and our forwards are in good form at the moment.
dirty great/dirty big
fall from a great height
▪
Along this curve it is as if the plane were freely falling from a great height.
▪
As it was, the extremely small head of some dinosaurs no doubt reduced the dangers of falling from a great height.
▪
That particular experience left me with a recurrent dream about falling from great heights.
▪
When they fell from grace, George Best fell from a greater height.
go to some/great/any lengths (to do sth)
▪
Both want to steal the show and they are going to great lengths to do it.
▪
Dealers, sometimes surreptitiously encouraged by their firms, would go to great lengths to extract information from employees of rival firms.
▪
Furthermore, bats go to great lengths to avoid confrontations with people.
▪
George Bush went to great lengths to keep out of his way on the campaign trail.
▪
The Medieval church went to some lengths to specify the roles of particular stones in religious imagery.
▪
When uninterrupted by unforeseen or unrecognized obstacles, parents will go to great lengths to provide these advantages for their children.
▪
Who knows whether Oppenheimer went to any lengths to find anyone who had anything good to say about Stewart.
▪
Yet Phillips climbed the wall anyway, went to great lengths to hurt his ex-girlfriend.
great white chief
greater/more/better etc than the sum of its parts
▪
Or is the organisation more than the sum of its parts?
have high/great hopes for sb/sth
new/great/dizzy etc heights
▪
And they all jump on me from great heights till corns on my hand seem like the fringe benefits of delirious joy.
▪
Fried quail reaches new heights in this recipe.
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I wave a fluttery wave of inconsequential cheerfulness and close the door, having reached new heights of cynical disinterest.
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In spite of a keen desire to reach greater heights , progress is hindered by poor practice methods which make improvement slow and frustrating.
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In the Upper Devonian, club mosses and horsetails grew to great heights .
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The stock market is soaring to new heights .
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Thereafter, the growth of the population reached dizzy heights .
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Under his leadership, the radios reached new heights of effectiveness.
no great shakes
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He's no great shakes as a singer.
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At school I was no great shakes at it, or anything.
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It is very simply made and no great shakes as a piece of cinema.
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Secondly, and crucially, Professor Griff is no great shakes as a rapper.
not amount to much/anything/a great deal etc
not/never be (a great) one for (doing) sth
of great moment
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Barry is a good writer, even when he is not writing about things of great moment .
sb is (great/good) fun
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But it is fun for me to look up from my Sunday paper and watch them try to cope.
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Chasing and racing is fun for a time but you end up yearning for something different.
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In beautifully landscaped settings, this unique zoo is great fun for all the family.
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It is fun to have competitions to see who can sleep their yo-yo longer.
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Much of the film is fun , but a lot is confusing.
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Some of this is great fun , but it pulls the production two ways, blunting its focus.
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This is fun , unfussy, honest fare that calls for a glass of cold beer.
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This is just a whim but it is great fun .
set great/considerable etc store by sth
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Being thus disappointed, I now set great store by what the first night might bring.
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Bourbon producers set great store by the soft local water which passes through limestone on its way to the distilleries.
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Britain had previously set great store by the Lisbon economic summit two years ago, but progress has subsequently been slow.
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He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension.
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It apparently sets great store by creating business and completing assignments relatively quickly.
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Organizations which set great store by behavioural conformity often develop patterns of operation which can appear ridiculous in their manifestations.
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The ancient Israelites set great store by proper burial.
show sth to (good/great) advantage
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He has joined to a fine genius all that can set him off and show him to advantage .
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It may be that the product would be shown off to best advantage in use.
take/go to (great) pains to do sth
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However, composers often go to great pains to keep to true intervals.
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Mr Lendrem has gone to great pains to establish one thing: that all of his preconceptions concerning bird behaviour are true.
the (Great) Depression
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Besides, labor disgraced itself in the Great Depression .
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High scores on the depression scale suggest that treatment other than anxiety management might also be considered.
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In the midst of the Depression , none of the Gennaros does anything to support the family.
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In the very depths of the Depression the owner decided to build a new theater.
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Keynes was intuitively convinced that public works would lift Britain out of the depression .
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She earned up to $ 250 per speech, a handsome sum during the Great Depression .
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The lowered mood itself increases access to negative memories, serving to maintain the depression .
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They will be concentrated in the same industries and come on stream as the economy is beginning its recovery from the depression .
the (great) outdoors
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a love of the great outdoors
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Dave Weatherley has been involved in the outdoors all his life.
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Following the annual migration of food preparation to the outdoors is the perennial question: How shall these delicacies be washed down?
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I spent the afternoon working hard, but feeling in communion with the outdoors .
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In the great outdoors , the merit of any feats become meaningless.
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Save it for the garden or the great outdoors .
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This is all the stuff of magic dreams for people who love the outdoors .
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Try to be as tolerant with the views of other human beings as you are with the great outdoors .
the Great Western
the best/greatest thing since sliced bread
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Now, I didn't get it because I was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
the great unwashed
the greater/major part of sth
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But people tend to drink caffeine on a regular basis over long periods of time-often the greater part of a lifetime.
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For the Third World or rather the underdeveloped world these questions have existed for the greater part of this century.
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Her objective was to acquire Transylvania, and she now at once invaded that country and quickly occupied the greater part of it.
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I already had a stitch scar running the greater part of my left leg.
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Many of those who call themselves farmers because they still own land derive the major part of their incomes from non-agricultural occupations.
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No council can hope to sack a large portion of its staff, who take the greater part of its expenditure.
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The filtered beer is tank conditioned, but the greater part of output has a secondary fermentation in the bottle.
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Their discussion comprises the major part of the story, with the Professore arguing the old dialectical materialist line.
the single biggest/greatest etc
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Drug overdoses have become the single biggest killer among the city's young people.
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For the single greatest cultural movement of the twentieth century is the rise and global hegemony of black music.
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It represented the single biggest step towards the creation of the international air agreements of today.
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It was the single greatest revelation of his religious life.
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The survey showed that consumer concern about the economy was the single biggest factor affecting the building business in 1993.
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This is the single biggest thing we could do to reduce costs.
time is a great healer/heals all wounds
to good/great/no etc effect
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And the book eschews alphabetical order in favour of thematic logic - to good effect .
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Any ball direct to deane was usually flicked on to no effect .
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But nobody demonized the opposition to greater effect than did Clinton strategist James Carville during the 1992 presidential campaign.
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Jones has turned the Trust's restrictions on the use of agrochemicals to good effect .
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The bi-colour l.e.d. can utilise a transparent lens-clip to good effect .
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The task of management is to use these to greatest effect .
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The threefold model of church growth of cell, congregation and celebration works at Ichthus to great effect .
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Video is a relatively new medium for in-house communications and is used by some companies to great effect .
to the (greater) glory of sb/sth
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Bach composed to the greater glory of God.
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But to be perfectly frank, Stevens, I wasn't paying much attention to the glories of nature.
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In its place, they were erecting a flamboyant, terracotta cathedral to the glory of the Prudential Insurance company.
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Six miles further is Lake Trasimeno, gateway to the glories of Umbria.
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The exterior of Byzantine churches is plain and simple; its appearance is ceded to the glory of the interior.
whacking great
with (the greatest) respect/with (all) due respect
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Fitzgerald is one of the all-time jazz greats.