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greatest disaster

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meanings of greatand disaster


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great
adjective
uk /ɡreɪt/ us /ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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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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Examples of greatest disaster


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In his view the authorities seem to have specifically planned the greatestdisaster our country has ever seen.
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This policy is the greatestdisaster that has befallen our schools in the last 20 years.
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I think the greatestdisaster would be for any one country to try to make a "corner," or a sort of monopoly, in historical relics.
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If they fail, they will bring the greatestdisaster and social unrest to this country that it has ever known.
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In the average working-class household the greatestdisaster that can happen short of losing the breadwinner is the sickness that comes into the house.
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I have always felt, therefore, that premature convertibility was the greatestdisaster in which this country could be involved.
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The greatestdisaster to him is a stoppage.
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That would be the greatestdisaster of all that could befall us.
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A sudden panic through a crash of prices would be the greatestdisaster.
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But the greatestdisaster of all would be if a life assurance company were to go insolvent with the savings of millions of people in its care.
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The result is that the country is in a deplorable condition to-day, approaching the greatest disaster it has ever had to face at any period in the war.
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This is the greatestdisaster the country has ever experienced, and the full extent of the loss of human life and damage is not yet known.
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Academia is a sign of recovery for humanity ten years after the greatestdisaster humankind had ever seen.
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Yet, the venture was to lead to his greatestdisaster and brought him close to grief.
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Countless lives and property were lost or irreversibly affected in what would be known as the greatestdisaster in the city's history.
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One of the greatest disasters to befall local government was the reorganisation in 1973.
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If that happens, it will be one of the greatest disasters of the twentieth century.
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One of the greatest disasters after the last war was the excessive nationalism of the succession states.
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This is one of the greatest disasters that we can recollect in the history of our passenger railway service in this country.
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One of the greatest disasters that can befall anybody is for a woman to be left a widow with young children to be brought up.
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