great likelihood

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandlikelihood

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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likelihood
noun[U]
uk
/ˈlaɪ.kli.hʊd/us
/ˈlaɪ.kli.hʊd/
the chance that something ...
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(Definition ofgreatandlikelihoodfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I do not see anygreatlikelihoodof three men with their amount of knowledge and experience behind them doing otherwise.
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At present there is agreatlikelihoodof these institutions becoming part and parcel of the university set-up and what is called higher education.
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Does not that, apart altogether from the ordinary epidemic curves, prove that there was agreatlikelihoodof excessive sickness in the mining areas?
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With more vessels there is agreatlikelihoodof collision, while fewer vessels of a larger size would mean less likelihood of collision.
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I do not believe that there is anygreatlikelihoodof this happening.
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Without that recommendation from the national leaders of the engineering union there is a verygreatlikelihoodthat that strike would still have been on.
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If the badger sett is ineffectually stopped, there is agreatlikelihoodthat the fox will go into it.
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That is a thing ofgreatlikelihood.
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Earlier we heard of thegreatlikelihoodof an insufficiency of resources to meet the needs and to safeguard the interests of dairy farmers.
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It is agreatlikelihood.
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I do not think that there is anygreatlikelihoodwith linguistic difficulties, differences in culture and this enormous lapse of time that that can be done.
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My right honourable friend does not think that there is anygreatlikelihoodof the more penurious undertakings being asked to undertake their due functioning measures.
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The argument now used is that, as there is agreatlikelihoodthat many of them cannot vote, therefore, you must postpone the election until they come home.
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