huge discrepancy
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhugeanddiscrepancy
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huge
adjective
uk/hjuːdʒ/us/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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discrepancy
noun[C or U]
uk/dɪˈskrep.ən.si/us/dɪˈskrep.ən.si/
a difference between two things that should be ...
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(Definition ofhugeanddiscrepancyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Thus, the direction of the occupational income gap change over time agrees with the data, but there is ahugediscrepancyin orders of magnitudes.
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There is ahugediscrepancyin my area, which does not exist in all other areas.
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That is before one takes into account thehugediscrepancybetween vehicle excise duty on the continent and in this country.
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Those pensions may now have been increased a little by the cost of living, but thehugediscrepancy—and, what is more, the injustice—remains.
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Unfortunately, there is still ahugediscrepancy, as much as 15%, between men's and women's wages for the same work.
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There is ahugediscrepancybetween the amounts that political parties spend.
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Is she aware of thehugediscrepancyas a result of the differing opinions of medical officers of health?
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Ratepayers are naturally infuriated by thehugediscrepancybetween what they were told they would pay and what they are actually paying.
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That is ahugediscrepancy.
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There is undoubtedly ahugediscrepancybetween those who are well off and those who are not in employment, but will the new deal redress that?
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There is ahugediscrepancy.
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Thathugediscrepancyis very worrying.
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There is ahugediscrepancybetween the data and the forecasts that is especially big over the oceans.
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The huge discrepancies in the level of healthcare available in different countries will present issues that bioethics will no longer be able to ignore.
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At one level, huge discrepancies exist between the realities of architectural models and the complexity of buildings.
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A striking feature of the vast amount of literature on thuggee is thus the huge discrepancies in the representation of the subject, and between the perspectives of the various authors.
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I do not believe that anyone can defend those huge discrepancies as a fair and justified distribution of the nation's resources.
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Apart from the huge discrepancies in the grants that they receive, their performance differs.
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There are huge discrepancies in rents charged in my constituency.
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There are huge discrepancies between the efficiency of, for example, washing machines and driers.
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