greatest danger

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatanddanger

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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danger
noun
uk
/ˈdeɪn.dʒər/us
/ˈdeɪn.dʒɚ/
the possibility of harm or death ...
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(Definition ofgreatanddangerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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And this is both the genius of the work and itsgreatestdanger.
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That is, perhaps, thegreatestdangerthe cause of zoning faces today.
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Often, it is children who are in thegreatestdanger.
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That is thegreatestdangerof all to peace.
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Is he also aware that thegreatestdangerlies in the possibility of the breakdown of the control orders which have already been granted?
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The water-borne diseases may prove thegreatestdanger.
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That kind of arrangement would remove thegreatestdangerto the owner-occupier.
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They and the courts have long recognised that violent offenders present thegreatestdangerto the public.
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That, to my mind, is thegreatestdangerof all.
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Thegreatestdangerto health is where insecticides are used continually in enclosed spaces.
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I do not think it is, and, in this regard, there is thegreatestdangerto the welfare of our fisher folk.
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When the next war comes, the position will be totally different, and thegreatestdangerconfronting this country is the imposition of this conscription.
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I think that if war broke out, thegreatestdangerfacing us would be from the air.
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We can tackle only one danger at a time, and one has to consider which is the immediate and thegreatestdanger.
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I believe that this is thegreatestdangerthat we are facing at the present time.
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Thegreatestdangerto any society comes when it is at its most successful, because that is when it becomes complacent.
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That is fraught with thegreatestdangerto all of us.
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Why, it is trifling with thegreatestdangerthat has confronted any community in the history of modern civilisation.
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Thegreatestdangerwe face in this country is failure to recognise who are our friends and who are our enemies.
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Thegreatestdangerlies in war breaking out by mistake, by misinterpretation of events by one side or the other.
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