great prosperity

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandprosperity

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great
adjective
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/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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prosperity
noun[U]
uk
/prɒsˈper.ə.ti/us
/prɑːˈsper.ə.t̬i/
the state of being successful and having a lot ...
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(Definition ofgreatandprosperityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Both town and province experiencedgreatprosperityand turbulent social movements during the nineteenth century.
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The resulting increase in trade, and reduction in the impediments to free markets, has broughtgreatprosperityto large parts of the world and its peoples.
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This all broughtgreatprosperityto the area.
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They broughtgreatprosperityto the peoples of those countries.
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The service industries were held to be the great wave of the future—they were going to provide thegreatprosperity.
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We have enormous assets which, if properly exploited, can bringgreatprosperityto the country as a whole.
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There, alone, is a very large margin ofgreatprosperityand expansion.
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Far too much was pulled out of the profits by those who were controlling it in the days of itsgreatprosperity.
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Whether there isgreatprosperityor whether there is great adversity in this country, those two rival doctrines have been advanced as solutions.
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Similarly, it will bringgreatprosperityto that splendid country and an opportunity for the future.
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Two years ago one would have thought that the motor car industry was facing a further period ofgreatprosperity.
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We wish the charming people of this developing country peace andgreatprosperity.
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Economies are growing throughout the globe, bringing in their wake new challenges as well asgreatprosperity.
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That will be welcome and will set us back on the path of growth and economic strength which will be the foundation forgreatprosperity.
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Of course, there is a variety of causes, thegreatprosperityof trade, and so on.
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An international motor race promoted near a town, but not necessarily in it, bringsgreatprosperityto that town.
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I notice that the working-class like their presentgreatprosperity; indeed, it is very enjoyable, especially when you are young.
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We have verygreatprosperityat this time.
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The decline began long before we thought of world wars at all; it began at a time ofgreatprosperity.
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We have had pointed out to us recently thegreatprosperityof that country.
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