greatest significance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandsignificance
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk/sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/us/sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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(Definition ofgreatandsignificancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Itsgreatestsignificanceis as a marker of the changing relationship between organizations and their office accommodation.
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It is something of thegreatestsignificanceto the whole country and to its future.
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I regard the making of profits by private enterprise as of thegreatestsignificancein the present state of the economy.
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This is a matter of thegreatestsignificanceto us all.
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The authors explain that they worked in that way to give thegreatestsignificanceto the figures.
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Clause 16 raises another question and one which is perhaps of thegreatestsignificancefor the future.
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Let me give one insight, which to me is of thegreatestsignificancefor the future.
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The political issues of thegreatestsignificanceand most interest to our constituents are those surrounding the community charge.
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It is one of the greatest gravity and of thegreatestsignificancefor the future of a free society.
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Clause 2 will have thegreatestsignificanceto those areas that we have raised to the higher court.
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A matter of thegreatestsignificancein the last two years has been the change in the proportion of voucher-holders in the total net inflow.
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This accession is of thegreatestsignificanceat both political and legal levels in the creation of a true area of human rights.
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I think that this is of thegreatestsignificance.
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This is an important area in which design aspects will be of thegreatestsignificance.
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These are changes of thegreatestsignificancefor the freight system.
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Are not these figures of thegreatestsignificance?
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I believe rear lights are of the verygreatestsignificance.
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The clear delimitation of competences is of thegreatestsignificanceas regards the public's consent to further internal integration and to enlargement.
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Perhaps of thegreatestsignificance, we are now actually spending the money we commit.
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This experiment has the greatest importance—or it may have thegreatestsignificance—in one of the most important aspects of defence.
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