very brink
collocation in Englishmeaningsofveryandbrink
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very
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈver.i/us/ˈver.i/
(used to add emphasis to a noun) exact ...
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brink
noun[S]
uk/brɪŋk/us/brɪŋk/
the point where a new or different situation is about ...
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(Definition ofveryandbrinkfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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At a pessimistic extreme, the city, and not just the urban poor, was claimed to be teetering at theverybrink.
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We have been on theverybrinkof a crisis.
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It will be observed that the people were on theverybrinkof an appeal to force.
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He has brought us to theverybrinkof war.
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But the junta did rescue the country from theverybrinkof political and economic disaster.
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We are on theverybrinkof grave economic disaster.
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That party caused untold hardship in those years and led the country to theverybrinkof military disaster in 1940.
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I have concluded that they must mean being suspended over theverybrinkof catastrophe, but not yet descending into its jaws.
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By 1980 huge losses brought the paper to theverybrinkof closing.
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Those babies are on theverybrinkof life.
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It should be recorded that we are discussing theverybrinkof viability of a child.
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Surely now, when we are standing on theverybrinkof it, we might come to our senses.
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They today are the cushion between theverybrinkof atomic war and giving time and thought for sanity to prevail.
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So many times in our industrial history since the war we have reached theverybrink; we have carried out the research and development and produced a prototype.
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We are standing on theverybrinkof a catastrophe which, in magnitude, may be far greater than the terrible calamity which we imagined was ended four years ago.
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New ideas have in this country frequently been brought forward, taken through the design stage to theverybrinkof production, and then not been exploited.
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The woodhen was at theverybrinkof extinction in 1980, with just 15 individuals found.
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