extraordinary achievement

collocation in English

meaningsofextraordinaryandachievement

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extraordinary
adjective
uk
/ɪkˈstrɔː.dɪn.ər.i/us
/ɪkˈstrɔːr.dən.er.i/
very unusual, special, unexpected, ...
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achievement
noun[C or U]
uk
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/us
/əˈtʃiːv.mənt/
something very good and difficult that you have succeeded ...
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(Definition ofextraordinaryandachievementfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A comprehensive review of thisextraordinaryachievementwould require a volume all its own.
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This volume is in some ways an odd mixture, and is, indeed, rather too long, but it is anextraordinaryachievement.
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It is only necessary to imagine trying to write this book in terms of its scope alone to grasp itsextraordinaryachievement.
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Any one of his many contributions to macroeconomics (or rather to monetary theory, for he detests the term macroeconomics) would be anextraordinaryachievement.
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That is very sad and deeply to be regretted, but it is anextraordinaryachievementthat the allies have kept so well to military targets.
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Not everyone agrees with all of it, but most people agree with most of it; and that is quite anextraordinaryachievement.
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That is anextraordinaryachievementin a very short time despite very difficult conditions, slumps in oil prices and general uncertainty in world markets.
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This is equal to the astonishing figure of 87½ houses per thousand of the population, and is anextraordinaryachievementin all the circumstances.
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This is anextraordinaryachievementfor a relatively small country whose industry is not really so tremendously sophisticated.
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Quite simply, now the rest of the world is listening to us, so let us not devalue anextraordinaryachievement.
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I think it is a great newspaper, and anextraordinaryachievement.
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I suggest that, cumulatively, this is really anextraordinaryachievement.
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This is a career ofextraordinaryachievementwhich is all too evident from his excellent speech today.
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It was anextraordinaryachievementof that time to persuade government to give up patronage in favour of an independent civil service.
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That is anextraordinaryachievementand one for which he will be remembered, even if he is not remembered for all the others as well.
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It is anextraordinaryachievementto have developed the sixth largest merchant fleet in the world.
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If we set that against the background of a population of 3 million, that is anextraordinaryachievement.
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Thisextraordinaryachievementof computers is only the beginning of the story.
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What has been happening is anextraordinaryachievementby any standard and one on which all those who are involved should be congratulated.
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This is a creditable andextraordinaryachievement, reached by continued good sense over the years.
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