greatest worry
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandworry
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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worry
noun
uk/ˈwʌr.i/us/ˈwɝː.i/
a problem that makes you feel unhappy ...
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(Definition ofgreatandworryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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That is mygreatestworry.
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That is ourgreatestworry.
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Ourgreatestworryabout that relates to ring-fencing.
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It is probably thegreatestworrythat the vast majority of people in this country have.
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Those areas which are not in the profitable areas are thegreatestworry.
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The aerospace industry'sgreatestworryis that it should have a follow-on aircraft.
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It is in a state of thegreatestworryover upkeep.
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Thegreatestworryto me in the income support scheme is the flat-rate premium system.
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Ourgreatestworryis that parts of public sector housing are slithering into slumdom.
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Testing at the age of seven seems to be thegreatestworry.
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The area that caused thegreatestworrywas the extension of surveillance powers to electronic communication and e-mail.
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I may say that this is a matter which is causing me thegreatestworryand the greatest anxiety.
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I have no doubt whatever that thegreatestworryin the education service is the disastrous impact of party politics.
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Mygreatestworryis whether what we are doing shuffles the ombudsman to one side when we think that we are doing something different.
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Mygreatestworryis about the way in which, step by step, we are moving away from the constituency basis of our democracy.
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I think thegreatestworrywhich has been expressed is that this clause will seriously damage the employment prospects of ex-offenders.
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If it is wrongly fixed, it will cause the greatest inconvenience and thegreatestworryand annoyance to breeders all over the country.
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Thegreatestworryof my constituents in the present situation is whether the priorities between different forms of transport are right.
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But thegreatestworryabout disclosure of information is that people will treat forward planning too seriously and take up positions.
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Given his own recognition of the tremendous value of our universities and the high international standards that they set, that must be a cause for thegreatestworry.
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Thegreatestworryseems to me to be those developing it in their 40s and 50s, who have young families, and who see their parent with this disease.
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We have heard again since that time that the company'sgreatestworrywas the gap in orders that it had coming up in two years' time.
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Many inmates have told me that they become far more accomplished criminals during their term of internment—and this is mygreatestworryabout the new youth custody institutions.
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Thegreatestworryand fear in our society today is the threat of violence to our families and the threat to the security of our possessions and our homes.
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He said that hisgreatestworrywas the great divisions between those who held most of the wealth—several families—and how the transition to a peaceful new order would be achieved.
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