big drop
collocation in Englishmeaningsofbiganddrop
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big
adjective
uk/bɪɡ/us/bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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drop
noun
uk/drɒp/us/drɑːp/
a small round-shaped amount ...
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(Definition ofbiganddropfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is strange that there isn't abigdropin fuel flow at that point.
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He is therefore taking abigdrop.
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That is a verybigdrop.
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There is a verybigdropin revenue—£150,000,000.
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That is a verybigdrop, a disastrous drop.
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On retirement a man suffers abigdropin income.
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The consumption for the year 1951–52 was 295,000 tons, a verybigdropindeed.
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When they become old-age pensioners, they find abigdropin their standards.
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There has been abigdropin the prices to the farmers—of barley, for example.
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Again, there is abigdropin funding that will be made available for it.
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Thebigdropin wholesale prices throughout the world is due to two causes.
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Thebigdropover the past five years since the 1987 election is welcome news.
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Today, it costs 65.9p, despite abigdropin the oil price.
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In 1946 that £62,500 had been reduced to £9,400, which is a verybigdrop.
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But, even taking that into account, there is abigdrop, and it is very satisfactory.
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I suppose it will be the people who reckoned on abigdropin gunny prices.
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Now that delivery is down to nine or six months, which is a prettybigdrop.
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There was abigdropin the numbers employed by the new combination.
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Now we have only seven people, and that is a verybigdropin population.
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It is abigdropfrom 2450 to somewhere about £200 a year.
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It was abigdropas compared with 1906, but they had not been in office all that time.
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There were predictions of abigdropin milk output after foot and mouth disease, but that did not happen.
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What is interesting about these figures is the verybigdropin the numbers of people temporarily stopped.
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It therefore means a verybigdropin the amount of money they will get for their fish.
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But there has been a verybigdropsince 1962; progressively it has gone down since 1962.
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