adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/great/massive/huge advantage
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It’s a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish.
a big/huge/massive argument
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There was a big argument about whether we should move to a new house.
a big/huge/massive fan
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Elizabeth is a massive fan of Elton John.
a big/major/massive/huge investment
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Developing a new computer system is always a big investment for any organisation.
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/massive earthquake (= extremely big )
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1906 is remembered for the great earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.
a huge/massive demonstration (= very big )
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a series of massive demonstrations against the war
a huge/massive study
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The journal published the results of a massive study of 87,000 women.
a huge/massive/enormous explosion
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An enormous explosion tore the roof off the building.
a large/huge/massive rally
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Several large rallies were held in December.
a major/massive programme
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A major programme of modernisation is transforming public transport in London.
a massive protest
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They reacted to the king’s forced abdication with massive public protests.
a massive reduction (= very large )
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There is no reason why the new technology should mean a massive reduction in employment.
a massive/major stroke (= one that has very bad effects )
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Her brother has just died of a massive stroke.
considerable/massive/extensive publicity
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The opening of the trial generated considerable publicity.
enormous/massive/gigantic etc proportions
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The company is heading towards a disaster of enormous proportions.
great/massive destruction
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Much of the city was rebuilt after the massive destruction of World War II.
huge/enormous/massive
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Industry has a huge impact on the environment we live in.
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The impact has been enormous on people's daily lives.
huge/massive (= very big )
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The recession left the Government with a massive deficit.
huge/massive (= very big )
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There was a huge increase in emigration after the war.
huge/massive
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The result was a huge rise in unemployment.
massive retaliation
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the threat of massive retaliation against British troops
massive support
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We have massive public support.
massive unemployment
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These measures could result in massive unemployment in the construction industry.
massive/great/huge etc influx
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a large influx of tourists in the summer
massive/huge
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Dean shrugged his massive shoulders.
on a massive/huge scale
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The drug is produced on a massive scale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
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She was made of flexible bamboo, while the majority of the other rafts had been more massive , sturdy timber structures.
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Held fast by their iron hoops, they seemed more massive than their size; massive with an inner strength.
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This seems bizarre enough, but what about a star which is more massive still?
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The Cytherean atmosphere is far more massive than that of the Earth, and the surface temperatures are considerably higher.
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Unless the companion is vastly more massive than the Sun, this also indicates that the stars have small orbits.
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The railways made a more massive impact.
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However, stars more massive than the sun will burn up their fuel much more rapidly.
■ NOUN
amount
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Conversely, it takes a quite massive amount of scientific evidence to have a substance positively recommended for health.
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Many of these projects are now losing massive amounts of money and only survive with public subsidies.
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Leaks from Clinton's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn.
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The problem, he said, was in developing a system capable of recording the massive amounts of information.
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There is a massive amount of crime which is never recognised.
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National and Statewide campaigns also require massive amounts of energy and stamina, as well as superior fund raising skills.
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The most important area on which to concentrate was the massive amount of water required by the production of textiles.
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They sold massive amounts of albums and concert tickets, but were never a singles band.
attack
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In parts of Lincolnshire, for example, the early seventeenth century saw a massive attack on the former open fields.
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A Colonel Herbinger, drunk at the time, thought in his stupor that the enemy had launched a massive attack .
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The massive attacks work well for the opening movement, with its homage to Bach.
body
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The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion.
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It seemed a physical impossibility, her massive body bounding with the grace of a ballerina.
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Even so, the implications of this theory for old stars and other massive bodies were not generally realized until the 1960s.
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A moment later, the whole massive body of the Titan itself lurched and tottered.
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Marsanne is known for its massive body and intense honey flavors.
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More generally, document boundaries may be blurred and a massive body of material may be collected together in one interlinked corpus.
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This would require a massive body taking such a path to follow a space-like geodesic.
change
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But the Seventies and Eighties brought massive change .
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Part of the problem was that the act called for massive changes in education without putting any of the infrastructure in place.
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Yet the return of the Republicans from the wilderness did not lead to massive changes in domestic policy.
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A massive change of public sentiment is always overdetermined.
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Economic development was also creating massive changes in the subordinate classes.
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To cope with these massive changes , entrepreneurial governments have begun to transform themselves.
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Electricity turned night into day, a massive change .
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None concedes the massive change of principle that such an extension would require.
expansion
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The sudden and massive expansion of the company's market in the early Seventies had several repercussions.
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For individuals this means more complex forms and a massive expansion of means testing.
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It fully expected a massive expansion .
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There was also a massive expansion in the formal schooling system, with an emphasis on building rural schools.
explosion
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The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet.
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Witnesses reported at least one massive explosion , which rocked houses up to a quarter of a mile away.
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A massive explosion occurred during testing at Tobolsk on the same pipeline in October.
heart
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The patient had come to the hospital for tests, and suffered a massive heart attack.
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Of course, he defied doctor's orders, and in 1977 he died of a massive heart attack, aged sixty.
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Little Sam Howard-Murphy was just three weeks old when he died from massive heart problems.
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Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack.
increase
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We are anxious to know where this massive increase will be found?
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For example, the huge increase in the number of motor vehicles has led to a massive increase in auto-crimes.
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Despite the massive increase in the volume of research in psychology and ethology, little progress seems to have been made.
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To cope with the massive increase in prosecutions, the paper even suggests revisions to the legal system to deal with offenders.
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The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding.
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Would not a massive increase of jobs ensure that training be integrated to economic revival and be more productive in finding work?
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We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds.
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There was a massive increase in the past few years, now there is a complete slump.
investment
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Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port.
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Polaroid is not going to make any new massive investments in instant photography for consumers.
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There is massive investment in disease and mortality which the system protects by distracting people's attention from it.
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The Communists made massive investments that did not pay off because of a poor incentive structure.
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We have massive investment at present and we want to see it continue.
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Some third world countries are now making massive investment in basic education.
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The result was a massive investment in staff training and development.
retaliation
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The alternative is massive retaliation by missiles aimed at the enemy's cities, which will stay put.
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Dulles used massive retaliation as the chief instrument of containment.
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There was a psychological as well as a military problem involved in massive retaliation .
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In its first test massive retaliation had won a victory.
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The strategy would later be called massive retaliation .
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Dulles called the policy massive retaliation .
scale
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The retirement condition encouraged an end to workforce participation on a massive scale and established arbitrary ages as the customary retirement ages.
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It was the first time women used e-mail on such a massive scale to network and to influence the foreign policy community.
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Token descriptions on a massive scale are now possible with the development of the computer.
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But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale .
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To give body to the reforms new building was needed on a massive scale .
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And who are these guys to second-guess the Founding Fathers on such a massive scale ?
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The past decade has seen labour-shedding on a massive scale .
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There was also evidence of vote-buying on a massive scale .
stone
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The surface was paved with massive stones and on these watery foundations Venice was built - a floating city!
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The surgeons of our corps selected for a hospital a large massive stone building....
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With massive stone lintels curved to follow the circumference of a circle, the neolithic builders were accurate in their work.
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A colonnade of massive stone pillars extended along the entire 462 feet of its front.
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They were probably also used to transport the massive stones needed for constructing the complex.
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The vault was supported on eight massive stone piers fronted by granite columns 38 feet high.
stroke
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He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness.
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In April 1991, ten months after reelection, Molly suffered a massive stroke that incapacitated her for months.
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But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke .
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Bill Dailey, 54, a bartender at the downtown Radisson Hotel, also bounded back from a massive stroke .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a massive tax bill
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Her house is massive .
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I had a massive argument with Vicky yesterday.
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The ancient temple's massive stone pillars had begun to crumble.
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The sums involved are massive -- over £12 billion in the first year alone.
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The system is capable of recording massive amounts of information.
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Union leaders are warning of massive job losses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But de Lattre, personally taking charge, flew in reinforcements and mustered every available aircraft to bomb the massive Vietminh formations.
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From inside they hear a massive and hysterical scream of the friends letting out their true feelings.
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Gradually the new global masterplan is falling into place: a series of massive bilateral trade agreements are being struck.
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His quarter-measures have brought higher prices, and also provoked massive strikes, but without any prospect of stabilising the economy.
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Oswald lay still, aware of a drone in the block, a heaving breath, grimness, massive sleep.
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The most influential critics were either misanthropic or committed to the need for massive reform.
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There is massive investment in disease and mortality which the system protects by distracting people's attention from it.
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There is a massive file cabinet stuffed with documents so old and densely packed they may be ready to ignite spontaneously.