major crisis
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmajorandcrisis
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major
adjective
uk/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/us/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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crisis
noun
uk/ˈkraɪ.sɪs/us/ˈkraɪ.sɪs/
a time of great disagreement, confusion, ...
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(Definition ofmajorandcrisisfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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For more than twenty years - until 1855 in fact, the year of the second great cholera epidemic - there was nomajorcrisisin mortality.
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The profession is experiencing amajorcrisisat present through recruitment and retention problems, ever-increasing workloads, demands for role extension and changes in the career structure.
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The book begins when the city's economy and population started to grow rapidly, and ends when it faced amajorcrisisafter cocoa and indigo exportations declined.
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For me, the situation is relatively clear: who is to blame for themajorcrisiswe are facing?
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I have no doubt that this type ofmajorcrisissituation requires a rapid response by special intervention units.
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In recent years, however, the industry has suffered onemajorcrisisafter another.
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I only hope that our country will not also have to pay the next time that we find ourselves in amajorcrisis.
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At the time of yet anothermajorcrisisin the middle east that must be at the forefront of our minds.
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This war which is now being waged in almost every part of the world is unquestionably amajorcrisisin the history of the world.
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If that is so, and we are facing amajorcrisis, we must consider the question of the adequacy of customs controls.
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It has not succeeded in solving anymajorcrisis.
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In anymajorcrisisour island role would be no less critical than in earlier times.
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We have amajorcrisisin housing at the moment with 1·5 million people on the waiting lists and thousands homeless.
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The lack of affordable housing constitutes amajorcrisisthat affects all parts of the country.
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Themajorcrisispoints of the world are getting worse.
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They have all been to discuss the problems of a city in amajorcrisis.
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Who on earth would ever have realised that there is at this moment amajorcrisisin the arts world?
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In the event of somemajorcrisis, this will either work or it will not work.
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We are now faced with amajorcrisisthat threatens our collective economic security.
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