huge reservoir

collocation in English

meaningsofhugeandreservoir

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huge
adjective
uk
/hjuːdʒ/us
/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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reservoir
noun[C]
uk
/ˈrez.ə.vwɑːr/us
/ˈrez.ɚ.vwɑːr/
a place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or ...
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(Definition ofhugeandreservoirfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There is ahugereservoirof tacit, even subversive, knowledge embodied within the practice of volunteers, which needs to be protected.
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If people do not know how to handle something they create ahugereservoiror mountain of it and pay everyone to keep it.
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It was like being on ahugereservoir; it was difficult to remember that, only 10 days previously, one could have walked across fields.
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Here is ahugereservoirof housing, which could do much to diminish human misery among the homeless.
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I have always believed that there is ahugereservoirof people who are willing, qualified and able to give voluntary help.
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However, the system does not make sense when there is ahugereservoirof unemployed building labour in almost every category.
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I could not see the logic of that policy when there was such ahugereservoirof unemployed building trade workers on which to draw—and that is still the case.
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There is a clear danger that some of thehugereservoirof now redundant nuclear materials, technology and scientists it has bequeathed may find their way into the wrong hands.
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Simultaneously, he started to dig ahugereservoirat his new capital (described below).
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The lotus flowers bloom fully every summer in ahugereservoir.
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Tunnels built in cement were used in particular to get the pipes coming from the boiler and from raisedhugereservoirof drinking water.
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Sorenson discovers that there was ahugereservoirof hydrogen underground, which turned the small conventional atomic explosion into a huge thermonuclear one that was millions of times more powerful.
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It creates huge reservoirs of gas in the pits, it makes the roof more difficult to control, and it endangers the lives of the miners.
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This is very misleading, because these economies have been drawing on huge reservoirs of labour employed in agriculture.
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By 1904, four huge reservoirs had been constructed.
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