great inconvenience

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandinconvenience

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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inconvenience
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌɪn.kənˈviː.ni.əns/us
/ˌɪn.kənˈviːn.jəns/
a state or an example of problems or trouble, often causing a delay or loss ...
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(Definition ofgreatandinconveniencefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgreat inconvenience

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This situation presentedgreatinconveniencefrom the marital standpoint, since the patriarch alone possessed the right to marry the members of the family.
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Anothergreatinconvenienceis the high calculation time.
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That operates as a disincentive to postponing a guilty plea until the day of the trial, to thegreatinconvenienceof witnesses, police and jurors.
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It will always have to act in a peace-keeping capacity, at great expense andgreatinconvenience.
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They are being caused not onlygreatinconveniencebut massive distress.
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But it was done atgreatinconvenienceand loss of time, and at great expense.
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Can we possibly have an early decision, as this question is causing verygreatinconvenienceover an enormous area?
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Coming, as they do, withgreatinconvenienceto themselves, to assist us in most responsible work, that is an arrangement which ought to be maintained.
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You get no change, and the result is, undoubtedly, a verygreatinconvenienceto the public.
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Unless some provision of this kind is put in, verygreatinconveniencemight arise, because the coal might possibly have been passed on to-somebody else.
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This was never intended and would be agreatinconvenienceto all concerned.
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That is a matter ofgreatinconvenienceto the doctors.
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I believe verygreatinconveniencewas caused not only to these hotels, but to the hotels all over the country.
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That work has been done not only in many cases atgreatinconvenienceto themselves but it has often involved very great pecuniary loss.
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If this is donegreatinconvenienceand delays will ensue.
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Traffic was forced on to local roads, where it had been before the motorway was built, causinggreatinconvenienceto all the local communities.
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Yes, they are valued at the time of death, but that has proved a verygreatinconvenienceto the testator.
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If deferred all thegreatinconvenienceof preparation for reducing stocks, etc.
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Greatinconvenienceis caused when they are not accepted as currency.
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There has been not only the loss of money, butgreatinconvenienceto the people in the districts affected.
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