great importance
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandimportance
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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importance
noun[U]
uk/ɪmˈpɔː.təns/us/ɪmˈpɔːr.təns/
the quality of ...
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(Definition ofgreatandimportancefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgreat importance
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On the one hand, it is understood as a medium ofgreatimportance.
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The field is ofgreatimportanceto policymakers, and this issue's dynamic approaches will advance the debate.
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Firstly, cortical activation, which is for unexplained reasons ofgreatimportance; and secondly, a generator mechanism that creates a story based on this activation.
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Such a catheter would be ofgreatimportancefor further refinement of interventional closure of atrial septal defects in general.
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Therefore, the exact rate of parasitism is ofgreatimportancein making decisions about whether or when to apply insecticides.
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These sheep were ofgreatimportanceto his farm.
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Furthermore, for a successful integration of the new territories into the empire the establishment of local centers of power was ofgreatimportance.
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From a policy perspective, the pronounced pattern of risk-averting behavior observed among the sample farmers is ofgreatimportance.
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These equations and inequalities are ofgreatimportancein our further investigations.
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Now the phrase "big/major leagues" is used to describe things of a giant scale or ofgreatimportance.
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The textbook thus becomes a matter ofgreatimportance.
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An assessment of the available programs is ofgreatimportancefor experimentalists who are required to run many different programs.
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This is ofgreatimportancefor the aetiological diagnosis.
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But secondly, this question is not ofgreatimportancefor my project.
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But even if happiness isn't everything, it is obviously a matter ofgreatimportance.
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This mathematical model will be ofgreatimportancefor the design process of the different joints.
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The ideal of being independent from the capricious events of the world was obviously ofgreatimportanceto a wide variety of early modern thinkers.
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Ofgreatimportanceto many applied problems is the case of high-temperature, partially ionized gas mixtures (plasma mixtures).
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Obviously it is ofgreatimportance, but what is the actual effect of bad tuning, apart from the pain which it causes to sensitive listeners?
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