vast reservoir
collocation in Englishmeaningsofvastandreservoir
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vast
adjective
uk/vɑːst/us/væst/
extremely ...
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reservoir
noun[C]
uk/ˈrez.ə.vwɑːr/us/ˈrez.ɚ.vwɑːr/
a place for storing liquid, especially a natural or artificial lake providing water for a city or ...
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(Definition ofvastandreservoirfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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But we have avastreservoirof scientific knowledge and ingenuity which can add value to those scarce raw materials.
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If thatvastreservoirof industrial skills is fast draining away, it is not the cause of unemployment but the result.
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We have not avastreservoirof seafaring labour in this country to man those ships.
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That is an indication of thevastreservoirof talent to be culled into the engineering profession.
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The all-party group meets practically every week and uncovers avastreservoirof human suffering.
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This shows a colossal failure to develop avastreservoirof native ability.
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Instead of creating avastreservoirof almost permanent mass unemployment, that experience increased employment.
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There is avastreservoirof would-be entrepreneurs on a micro-scale whose involvement in gainful activities has as much social as economic benefit.
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It is not that orders are refused by the courts, but that avastreservoirof potential orders are never sought because people think that some hurdles are too high.
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There we have avastreservoirof social capital expressed in terms of schools, of hospitals and of roads, and in terms of industry, commerce and productive units.
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Drugs were once entirely derived from plants and, although many are now synthetic, the plants of the world are still avastreservoirfor complex compounds with useful biomedical properties.
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As a result of avastreservoirof unemployed labour, an employer could, by the use of such statements, at least attempt to intimidate the men who were in work.
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I have a feeling that there is avastreservoirof talent in the higher branch of the legal profession from which judges could be appointed.
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But there is no doubt avastreservoirof good will in this country of which we have not yet made as great use as we might.
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The vast lake retains water like avastreservoirwith evaporations drained back by surrounding mountains.
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But every actual body also has a virtual dimension: avastreservoirof potential traits, connections, affects, movements, etc.
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Artesian springs, bubbling up from avastreservoirof underground water, fed into running streams that harbored giant catfish, crawfish, and mussels.
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We have vast reservoirs here of strength and wealth that we can mobilise in this struggle.
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There are entirely non-productive areas where we could build these vast reservoirs which are necessary, and which will be still more necessary for supplying water to our people.
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