sheer size
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsheerandsize
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sheer
adjective
uk/ʃɪər/us/ʃɪr/
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; ...
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size
noun
uk/saɪz/us/saɪz/
how large or small something or ...
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The politics of full presence is rendered impossible by problems ofsheersizeand immoderate diversity.
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Moreover, thesheersizeof rich country subsidies is testament to the difficulties of removing subsidies.
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Thesheersizeof the project brought with it enormous organisational complexity and great excitement.
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First, thesheersizeof the investment in psychiatric hospitals required a large bureaucracy to support them.
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In other words, wages would seem to be the critical quantity, not thesheersizeof the public sector itself.
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Despite their obvious value to those undertaking an analysis of the developing urban environment, thesheersizeand complexity of property surveys has proved prohibitive.
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Given thesheersizeand heterogeneity of the metropolis, is there another more compelling candidate?
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Itssheersizein terms of population meant it was likely, in any case, to produce a significant proportion of the members of any political party.
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Their chapters collected in this volume provide informed overviews of advances since transition from military rule that do not conceal thesheersizeof remaining challenges.
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The federal system mapped onto these local divisions, but thesheersizeof it mandated that the local divisions and thus particular interests be weakened if not destroyed.
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Thesheersizeof these blocks made it difficult to maintain a traditional design using only perimeter buildings, as this would have resulted in a large empty inner space.
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Elite residences are usually the most visible archaeologically due to the masonry construction andsheersize.
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The difficulty was thesheersizeand ubiquity of that class, which meant that any franchise to which they could realistically aspire risked swamping every other interest.
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First, it is because of thesheersizeof the industry.
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The hotel and catering statistics on tourism which are now available give us an idea of thesheersizeof the problem that we face.
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I agree about the importance of thesheersizeof the market.
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It will not be disastrous because of thesheersizeof the companies.
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Thesheersizeof it and its massive intrusion on the landscape take my breath away.
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I refer to thesheersizeof these bodies.
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The central problem facing the prison service today is thesheersizeof the prison population.
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