great complexity

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandcomplexity

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great
adjective
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/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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complexity
noun
uk
/kəmˈplek.sə.ti/us
/kəmˈplek.sə.t̬i/
the state of having many parts and being difficult to understand or find an ...
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(Definition ofgreatandcomplexityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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What is, then, a very simple observation for the archaeological theorist leads on to conceptual issues ofgreatcomplexity.
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The longer view also would have revealed thegreatcomplexityof this revolution, which had been decades in the making.
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Seasonal differences in growth rhythms between tropical and temperate species impose agreatcomplexityto gap regeneration processes.
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This implies that an interleaving semantics is bound to describe all atomic actions for the derived analyses to be correct, and hence incurringgreatcomplexity.
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Contrast this view to the approach within science where simplicity can be found to conveygreatcomplexity.
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The four vocal registers and the changes in vowel quality that these induce (not to speak of vowel length and tone) result in a vowel system ofgreatcomplexity.
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I believe thisgreatcomplexitydoes lead to a considerable amount of misplaced energy and to waste as its result.
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There can be no doubt that the problems with which it attempts to deal are ofgreatcomplexity.
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The subsection which we seek to amend is one ofgreatcomplexity.
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The matters will be ofgreatcomplexity, and it may be difficult impartially to sift the evidence.
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Those are all questions ofgreatcomplexityand difficulty, not to be easily solved by a stroke of the pen.
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It would involvegreatcomplexityof administration and also the embodiment of the principle of the means test, to which considerable objection is taken.
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This inquiry has to cover a great deal of ground and must analyse matters ofgreatcomplexity.
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We are dealing with questions of verygreatcomplexity.
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I myself remember being concerned as a judge with a dyestuff patent of verygreatcomplexity.
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Obviously these matters of sterling, when they come to be discussed after our accession, will be matters ofgreatcomplexity.
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It is, therefore, a matter ofgreatcomplexity.
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This has been a problem ofgreatcomplexity, requiring reference to changes in the actuarial position and to developing pensions procedures in other fields.
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The whole matter is one of verygreatcomplexity.
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This is a matter ofgreatcomplexity, and one over which many people could wonder for hours.
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