great opportunity

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandopportunity

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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opportunity
noun
uk
/ˌɒp.əˈtʃuː.nə.ti/us
/ˌɑː.pɚˈtuː.nə.t̬i/
an occasion or situation that makes it possible to do something that you want to do or have to do, or the possibility of ...
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(Definition ofgreatandopportunityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgreat opportunity

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Agreatopportunitywas lost for meaningful and thoughtful reflection on healthcare reform and why we need it.
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They felt that, if the process worked, it would be agreatopportunityto meld farming and conservation.
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I also feel that agreatopportunityhas been missed in this chapter.
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Admittedly, the new volumes do not set out to fulfil such briefs, but one feels that agreatopportunityhas not been fully grasped.
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Notaries were of course literate, and this seemed to furnishgreatopportunityfor social mobility.
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The participants' accounts were consistently grateful for 'thegreatopportunity' for a holiday, some for the first time in their lives.
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The secular sanctity-of-life doctrine incorporates the idea that rationalagency capacity has special value, for it is this that makes the human person's life normally agreatopportunity.
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On the other hand, their placement in the bureaucracy afforded them agreatopportunityto link social and economic issues through the development of official statistics.
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The variations in the way villages manage their canals offer agreatopportunityto analyze the factors that have led to the differences in contractual choices.
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But doing nothing other than drawing for eight to 10 hours a day for two terms with no lectures or classes to attend - was agreatopportunity.
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Greatopportunitylies in the fact that pasture-based agriculture can bundle these four desirable attributes into a single product.
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This crisis is agreatopportunityto take action in four major areas.
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I just feel we have all missed agreatopportunityto have a medium- and long-term policy.
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Therefore, today is agreatopportunityfor me to clarify some of the misunderstandings.
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The ten or twenty years’ increase in life expectancy for generally fit and healthy populations also presents agreatopportunity.
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It is not seen as a wrong turn, culturally speaking, but as agreatopportunityfor cultural enrichment and a chance to increase democratic involvement.
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It has been agreatopportunityto work for two and a half years in the movement up and down the country.
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Reform is needed, and there is agreatopportunityto achieve consensus on the way forward.
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It givesgreatopportunityand is worthy of support.
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