great accomplishment

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandaccomplishment

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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accomplishment
noun
uk
/əˈkʌm.plɪʃ.mənt/us
/əˈkɑːm.plɪʃ.mənt/
something that is successful, or that is achieved after a lot of work ...
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(Definition ofgreatandaccomplishmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And although rudimentary, it was agreataccomplishment.
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Considering that the academy had a total of only one hundred students, this was really agreataccomplishment.
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It is agreataccomplishment, all the greater when we remember the condition into which the industry had been allowed to fall.
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Even if we cannot reach agreement then, we shall yet have done no harm; but if we can reach agreement, a verygreataccomplishmentwill have been achieved.
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That is agreataccomplishment, indeed.
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That is agreataccomplishment.
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It is not agreataccomplishment.
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It is agreataccomplishment.
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Many people, who have achieved what was important to them, look back on their lives and feelgreataccomplishmentand a sense of integrity.
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In other words, the prize is not intended as an end of service reward or as recognition for onegreataccomplishment.
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This is nogreataccomplishmentas, thousands of years in our future, anyone can do it.
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The beautiful illustrations also marked the book as agreataccomplishmentof art in a childrens book.
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It is agreataccomplishmentwhich required skill, longevity, and determination.
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Millions of stamps were issued with his face on them to show thisgreataccomplishment.
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The success of the reconstruction aides, largely made up of women trying to do their bit to help with the war effort, was agreataccomplishment.
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One of the great accomplishments of this book is to connect different representations of a similar phenomenon.
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Andre's victory is nothing less than agreataccomplishmentfor him and an even greater source of pride for myself.
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One of the great accomplishments of seventeenth-century culture was the development of a vocabulary by means of which dramatic characters and actions could be delineated in music.
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We in this country have a right to be very proud of the great accomplishments we were able to achieve during the war.
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Let us not, in our anxiety not to be complacent, fail to realise that there have been great accomplishments in this sphere of water.
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