greatest amount
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandamount
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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amount
noun[C]
uk/əˈmaʊnt/us/əˈmaʊnt/
a collection or mass, especially of something that cannot ...
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But despite its flexibility, depicting will tend to require thegreatestamountof interactional work.
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Surprisingly, children who neighborhoods may begin to view their careexperienced thegreatestamount of trauma, givers as incapable of keeping them safe.
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Commercial leases, which account for almost one-third of 2003 revenues, generate thegreatestamountof revenue.
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Although we generally believe that the most likely explanation should also give thegreatestamountof understanding, this relation cannot be taken for granted.
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Eligible caregivers were identified by asking these recipients to name the family member who gave them thegreatestamountof daily care and assistance.
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The underlying idea here is that healthcare systems should distribute thegreatestamountof quality and quantity of life among the largest number of people.
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Figure 4 illustrates that the respondents with cancer of the head and neck suffer thegreatestamountof anxiety and depression.
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Inevitably thegreatestamountof computation, and hence design effort also, is focused on the analysis process.
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According to this proposal, the preverbal message specifies the lexical concept and the intended language, thus ensuring that the target lexical node receives thegreatestamountof activation.
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Adopted policies are just on utilitarian grounds when they are the most likely to produce thegreatestamountof the specified end, that is, they are efficacious.
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Water supply was the sanitary function in which thegreatestamountof money was invested by local government.
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Interestingly, they frame the results of the study in terms of identifying which phonological and memory skills account for thegreatestamountof variance in reading level scores.
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We may ask the questions where in the now living system thegreatestamountof their past history has survived and how it can be extracted.
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Thegreatestamountof evidence of meat and hide processing was found in the front north room and the area north of the rear north room.
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For an experimentally generated shear layer or the mixing region of an axisymmetric jet there will be some non-extreme frequency which will give thegreatestamountof radiated noise.
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When surrogates for two of the deceased gave conflicting information, responses from the surrogate who had spent thegreatestamountof time with the case prior to death were used.
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It should be emphasized here that information gathering needs to be actively pursued to assure that thegreatestamountof relevant and up-todate information is collected.
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Site 3, which was submerged in a tidal pool, had thegreatestamountof carbon fixed per unit area.
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This approach was employed to allow for thegreatestamountof litter to be collected within the shortest amount of time, particularly targeting the species of interest.
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The latter is the more difficult of the two, and requires thegreatestamountof tact and sensitivity to bring about.
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