greatest revolution
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandrevolution
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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revolution
noun
uk/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/us/ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence ...
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(Definition ofgreatandrevolutionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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We are dealing with probably thegreatestrevolutionin history.
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If we are to investigate electroacoustic music as a cultural phenomenon, we can hardly avoid questions concerning thegreatestrevolutionin music history.
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That will be thegreatestrevolutionwhich has ever happened in any country of the world.
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That was thegreatestrevolutionin our legal procedure for centuries.
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Yet we have passed through thegreatestrevolutionthe world has ever known, and certainly the greatest revolution which ever occurred in this country occurred during the last fifty years.
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The 21st century is witnessing what will probably be known as thegreatestrevolutionin human history.
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The vital fact is that we are now passing through thegreatestrevolutionthe human race has ever known.
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The proposition is perfectly feasible and it would bring about thegreatestrevolutionin public health that is immediately possible.
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It should like to finish by saying that we are passing through thegreatestrevolutionthe world has known.
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We are living through thegreatestrevolutionin the history of the world in telecommunications, transport and technology.
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We are on the eve of thegreatestrevolutionin teacher training which we have made over half a century—the three-year teacher-training course.
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I have said so many times how legal aid is perhaps thegreatestrevolutionto have come for years in the legal profession.
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We must be aware that biotechnology is bound up with what is presumed to be thegreatestrevolutionin medicine and technology.
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There is happening about us to-day, whether we will it or not, thegreatestrevolutionin the history of man.
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We are on the eve of perhaps thegreatestrevolutionthat agriculture has ever known, because of the possibility of quite exceptional developments in agricultural machinery.
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I happen to base my political philosophy on thegreatestrevolutionknown to man, which was not that little affair in 1917 but the revolution of 1789.
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The event was described by contemporaries as thegreatestrevolutionthat had taken place in that part of the world.
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Thegreatestrevolutionin the history of man is the advent of the automatic factory and the widespread use of computers, which are as yet only in their infancy.
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