great flood

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandflood

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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flood
noun
uk
/flʌd/us
/flʌd/
a large amount of water covering an area that is ...
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(Definition ofgreatandfloodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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No doubt if we have an enormous extension of legal aid there will be agreatfloodof applications in the early stages.
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Has he had agreatfloodof letters about this?
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The result was agreatfloodof applications and a mountain of correspondence.
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Thisgreatfloodof hands that has come in has been set to work.
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He meant by those words, 50 or 60 years ago, that time and again there would come agreatfloodof discontent, easy to dissipate.
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I do not believe that we should be faced with agreatfloodof irrelevant petitions.
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Nor do we have any intention of taking no action until agreatfloodof imports has arrived and caused the injury.
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We are talking about fewer than 6,000 people, not agreatfloodof immigrants.
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When we came to power we faced, very shortly afterwards, agreatfloodof price increases.
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Thegreatfloodof eloquence makes one rather nervous.
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I hope we appreciate that this is an attempt at least to check what would otherwise be agreatfloodof visitors to this country.
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It is clearly in this direction that we can most speedily and effectively assist the victims of thisgreatflooddisaster.
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An agreement to sell does not result in agreatfloodof people to buy.
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I pay tribute to the efficiency of the civil service in dealing with thisgreatfloodof documentation, but we need to transform that.
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Behind the darn which requires to be raised and raised and raised, a heavy, overwhelming, overpoweringgreatfloodof water is rising.
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Thegreatfloodof 1928 caused one-and-a-half acres of arable land to disappear; market gardens were washed away, and dwelling houses were undermined.
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We have agreatfloodof barley and it is almost impossible to find the necessary storage for it.
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I expect that we both share similar regrets and have listened to agreatfloodof rhetoric and argument.
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At the end of the freeze, it was said, the ice melts and there is agreatflood.
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Agreatfloodof directly applicable legislation will have to go through without parliamentary approval.
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