near disaster

collocation in English

meaningsofnearanddisaster

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near
adjective[before noun]
uk
/nɪər/us
/nɪr/
not far away in distance, time, characteristics, ...
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disaster
noun[C or U]
uk
/dɪˈzɑː.stər/us
/dɪˈzæs.tɚ/
(an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or ...
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(Definition ofnearanddisasterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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For many families struggling to buy their homes increases of that sort representneardisaster.
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The tourist industry is undergoing a season ofneardisaster.
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So often in the past, with remarkably astonishing results, the yard has fought back fromneardisasterto survival.
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It is a mosaic of causation, producing theneardisasterthat we had barely a week ago.
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It is not when things are palpably and obviously in a state ofneardisasterthat the whistle needs to be blown.
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Must we wait for aneardisasterbefore taking action on the many other aspects of pollution of our environment?
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Broadly speaking, it catalogued the shortage of medical personnel and theneardisasterlevel of military medical establishments, which have been cut to the bone.
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For some of them it is a bit early to start celebrating just because they have progressed fromneardisasterto mere crisis.
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We were perilouslyneardisasterin the last war.
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It seems to me to be the one way at this late stage of retrieving aneardisasterwhich seems to be almost upon us in this very important question.
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The newspaper also reported aneardisasterwhen her dress caught on fire from the footlights.
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They found themselves as close as 15 miles from the front lines, and this led toneardisasteron at least one occasion.
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Yet at the opening of the attack there was aneardisasterwhen two columns blundered into each other in the dark.
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Neardisasterstruck, however, in 1938 when a massive fire consumed most of the plant, including the slaughterhouse.
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Some floodsneardisasterwere the reason for a restoration concept.
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