great success
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatandsuccess
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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success
noun
uk/səkˈses/us/səkˈses/
the achieving of the results wanted or ...
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Examplesofgreat success
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Here, language standardization achievedgreatsuccessin a less developed country with less advanced technical equipment in a fairly short period.
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These dynasties achieved agreatsuccessin popularising their saints but ultimately at the cost of the complete transformation of the saints themselves.
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The performance was agreatsuccessand the showman collected a tidy sum of money.
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Thegreatsuccessencountered by his first book on microscopy encouraged him to write another book popularizing the microscope.
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And use those sources they do, often withgreatsuccess.
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Around 1800, coffee cultivation was introduced on the slopes around the valleys and became agreatsuccess.
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Yet, on the evidence, the policy does not seem to have been agreatsuccess.
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However, the elephants were not agreatsuccessand the role of the buffaloes was a limited one.
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Commercial publications gainedgreatsuccessand encouraged more followers.
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Although this programming solution has demonstratedgreatsuccessin numerous applications, this model remains tedious, and costly in practice.
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The expedition was, however, agreatsuccessand important geological, botanical and cartographical discoveries were made.
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Although barely noted at the time, the idea has recently been adapted with apparentlygreatsuccessin railway stations notoriously susceptible to vandalism.
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Furthermore, games of power could draw on the pragmatics of land and belonging withgreatsuccessbecause of such implicit iconic motifs.
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In spite of thisgreatsuccess, some challenging issues remain open, mostly related to the simulation of large systems over long times.
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This book seeks to address this deficit in cognitive theory and therapy and does so withgreatsuccess.
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I think it's highly unlikely that it's going to be agreatsuccess.
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This is important because fitting the cross-country income data is where steady-state regressions achieve theirgreatsuccessand therefore such an experiment is well motivated.
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I am not in any sense wanting to decry thegreatsuccessof the last 25-30 years.
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Viking launched in 1882, was agreatsuccess.
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These new applications can be seen as agreatsuccessof research in ontologies.
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