great expanse

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandexpanse

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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expanse
noun[C]
uk
/ɪkˈspæns/us
/ɪkˈspæns/
a large, open area of land, water, ...
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(Definition ofgreatandexpansefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The heath is agreatexpanseof real countryside.
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Thisgreatexpanseof water would be an attraction.
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I have no fear that under this scheme, where you are going to make rivers into lochs and have agreatexpanseof water, you will have less beauty.
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He then traveled at great speed through agreatexpanseand beyond were mountain-like cones of light, seven of them, one stacked upon another.
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From high drifts is seen agreatexpanseof waters lying in the sunlight.
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There was only the calm sea and thegreatexpanseof the sky.
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Thegreatexpanseof the skirt was covered with elaborate lace, embroidery, fringes and other decoration.
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In the desire to recreate even a fraction of worlds gone by, textual fragments and clues can be hoovered up from across great expanses of time.
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We believe that the great expanses of monotonous local authority estates must be broken up for the benefit of those who live there.
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Washington is one of the best; it has great expanses of real beauty.
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Fires blazed out of control and could not be extinguished; water flooded in great expanses and would not recede.
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The act was used by speculators who were able to get great expanses declared unfit for farming allowing them to increase their land holdings at minimal expense.
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