large constituency

collocation in English

meaningsoflargeandconstituency

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large
adjective
uk
/lɑːdʒ/us
/lɑːrdʒ/
big in size ...
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constituency
noun[C]
uk
/kənˈstɪtʃ.u.ən.si/us
/kənˈstɪtʃ.u.ən.si/
one of the official areas of a country that elects someone to represent it in a parliament ...
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(Definition oflargeandconstituencyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflarge constituency

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Madison, moving towards representation as a means of achieving the public good, saw the sufficientlylargeconstituencyas capturing this unity.
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Groups that lack alargeconstituencyof people with long-term needs willing to pay membership fees usually have to depend on governmental, charitable, or commercial sources for funding.
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It is not fair that a few people should have the same privileges of representation as alargeconstituency.
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Compulsion is an essential necessity to every organisation which possesses alargeconstituencyof members in order to obtain its money.
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Invariably, in alargeconstituencylike mine, they finish their deliveries by eight o'clock.
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A large constiteuncy not close to anotherlargeconstituency, for some reason, is not to be affected.
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He must know, going about that verylargeconstituency, as he does, that conditions there, in the rural areas, are very bad indeed.
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I represent alargeconstituencycomposed of 100 or more small villages.
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I am pressing this matter on behalf of alargeconstituencywhich is very greatly concerned about the situation.
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In my constituency, which, although it is in a small county, is a verylargeconstituency, we have 80 or 90 villages.
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There is no doubt that alargeconstituency, with long distances to travel and a spread population, involves greater expenses than a smaller, urban constituency.
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I speak with feeling on this matter, having represented alargeconstituencybefore 1945.
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It made the idea of buying books a reality to an enormouslylargeconstituency.
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I am not suggesting for one moment that they would all be in receipt of direct payments, but it is a verylargeconstituency.
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I challenge the allowance because it is inadequate, especially when one has alargeconstituency.
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I have a verylargeconstituency, with more than 100,000 electors and with many firms, small and large, nationalised and private.
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Although there are many problems in alargeconstituency, there are new hopes.
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Thislargeconstituency, of well over 2,000 square miles, embraces an enormous variety.
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In alargeconstituencywhere the population is thinly scattered, this paragraph will have very little effect.
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But if they do not, we must do something about thelargeconstituencyand provide the essential safeguards.
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