big breakthrough

collocation in English

meaningsofbigandbreakthrough

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big
adjective
uk
/bɪɡ/us
/bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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breakthrough
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbreɪk.θruː/us
/ˈbreɪk.θruː/
an important discovery or event that helps to improve a situation or provide an answer to ...
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(Definition ofbigandbreakthroughfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Yes, that was abigbreakthrough.
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This car wasbigbreakthrough.
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If pupils acted as role models, the proposals would have achieved abigbreakthrough.
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I want to remind you that together we have made abigbreakthrough.
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This is the firstbigbreakthroughin the disarmament process, because everything hangs on verification.
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Hisbigbreakthroughcame in the 1984/85 season.
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The report strongly recommends proper research into all aspects of the illness to achieve abigbreakthrough.
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But in any case we are developing a generation behind, because the future helicopter will be the rigid rotor, which is abigbreakthrough.
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It describes the introduction of the higher rate statutory maternity pay for all women entitled to statutory maternity pay as a "bigbreakthrough".
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Thebigbreakthroughwas in oil pastels, that only he made in large format.
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Hisbigbreakthroughcame with the 10 km sprint world title in 1989.
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Will he proceed on the important issues of limits with the same degree of vigour and tenacity as have won him thisbigbreakthroughin the present negotiations?
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Thebigbreakthroughin his career came when he turned to stand-up comedy, looking for new acting directions.
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The discovery of the active oxide was in fact abigbreakthroughas it led to the development of vildagliptin and saxagliptin.
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This album was supposedly hisbigbreakthroughand the first of all albums leading up to 2005 that sold over 500,000 copies.
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He made abigbreakthroughin 2007 jumping in the under 17 top ten all time list with 15.08, winning medals at all the national u17 championships that year.
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