great achievement

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandachievement

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofgreatandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Looking at them closely allows us to see how agreatachievementof literary mimesis explores its own mythologies of art.
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Compared with the region's previous combustible qualities, this was agreatachievement.
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For a young architect with little reputation, it was agreatachievementto assemble all this material.
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This book can only be described as agreatachievement.
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We swear therefore, with every court official and domainal lord, to enhance the imperial ancestors'greatachievement, by willingly enduring difficulties.
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The book'sgreatachievementis to force us to refocus our thinking.
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This in itself is agreatachievementparticularly.
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Quantum theory'sgreatachievementis to turn possibilities into probabilities: it dictates which possibilities are open, and provides very (very) accurate odds for those possibilities.
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Bentham'sgreatachievementwas to have provided an alternative system of legislation that would transform national character gradually, making reform politics compatible with domestic and international peace.
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The fact that we are able to improve this situation through the advent of reference networks is agreatachievement.
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The secondgreatachievementwas the endorsement of the principle of responsibility to protect populations from atrocities.
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It is agreatachievementon your part that they feel that way.
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That achievement was certainly the most memorable one of his great reign—and it was, indeed, agreatachievement.
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Thatgreatachievementis the pillar of a fair and just tax system in a modern society.
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That is agreatachievement, but it represents an enormous challenge as well.
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They still pretend to it, thisgreatachievementof ours.
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Therefore, there has been nogreatachievementthere.
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When, at costly expense, you cure a man of one disease, it is agreatachievement; you prolong his life.
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