great urgency

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatandurgency

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great
adjective
uk
/ɡreɪt/us
/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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urgency
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɜː.dʒən.si/us
/ˈɝː.dʒən.si/
the quality of being very important and needing ...
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(Definition ofgreatandurgencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Precisely because social context is so complex, it raises the issue of contingency withgreaturgency.
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Harbor officials may not have feltgreaturgencyin constructing new women's lavatories for a number of reasons.
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It is not hard to understand their unwillingness to spend time trying to provide conceptual justification, given thegreaturgencyto respond to terrible deprivations around the world.
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Is not this a matter ofgreaturgency?
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Should a properly sponsored case ofgreaturgencyarise, the operating companies have agreed to make accommodation available.
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That is why we are pursuing that objective as a matter ofgreaturgency.
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Most important of all is that the matter is one ofgreaturgency.
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But we must somehow get over this feeling and look at the facts and try to tackle them realistically and withgreaturgency.
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It is becoming a matter ofgreaturgency.
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It is a matter ofgreaturgency, and we are dealing with it as such.
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It is, of course, said that there is no alternative because this is a matter ofgreaturgency.
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We must recognise that there isgreaturgencyin this.
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I think that this is a matter of verygreaturgency.
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It was highly inconvenient, but it was often an opportunity to air subjects ofgreaturgency.
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These two problems are problems of verygreaturgency.
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That would not be surprising, considering thegreaturgencyof public affairs.
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Would he treat the matter as one ofgreaturgency?
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It has only now been found to be a matter of such verygreaturgency.
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The matter is one of reallygreaturgency.
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The final point on which we are all agreed is that thegreaturgencyis to avoid war and to achieve multilateral disarmament.
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