grave importance

collocation in English

meaningsofgraveandimportance

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grave
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪv/us
/ɡreɪv/
seriously ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk
/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us
/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofgraveandimportancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrave importance

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This was a matter ofgraveimportance, and not only for the playwrights and librettists.
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Without the follow-up the conference has no real purpose, except to draw attention to a matter ofgraveimportance.
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I think that is a point of verygraveimportanceto the country.
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The absence of such facilities is ofgraveimportancein respect of serious diseases.
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It is impossible to deal with these isolated questions piecemeal on a subject which is one of very serious and verygraveimportance.
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As the commission observed, most people will readily cooperate in investigations of suchgraveimportance.
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We urge that this is a matter of very great andgraveimportance.
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This touches a matter ofgraveimportanceinvolving children and their relationship to schools and school staff.
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The matters raised tonight are ofgraveimportanceto our constituencies.
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The question of location is obviously ofgraveimportance.
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Having said that, it does not mean that this is not a matter ofgraveimportance.
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Will he take this up as a matter of verygraveimportance?
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This is a sad debate, which should not have been necessary, but it is on a matter ofgraveimportanceto science and confidence.
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The question of the methods of accounting is undoubtedly ofgraveimportance.
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There is no doubt whatever that this particular act ofgraveimportancewas taken.
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Obviously, the matter that he raised is ofgraveimportanceto our troops.
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The matter is one of verygraveimportance.
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If that is so, can we not have it, for this is a matter ofgraveimportance?
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That question is one of verygraveimportanceindeed, and it is not a new question.
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It deals with an evil which, from the purely agricultural point of view, is of verygraveimportance.
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