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greatest thing

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meanings of greatand thing


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great
adjective
uk /ɡreɪt/ us /ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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thing
noun
uk /θɪŋ/ us /θɪŋ/
used to refer in an approximate way to an object or to avoid ...
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Examples of greatest thing


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I thought it was the greatestthing that had ever happened in the mining industry.
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Therefore, being entertained and taken into people's homes, is the greatestthing they can have.
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I am talking about the greatestthing we have ever done, in my judgment.
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I understood him to say that the greatestthing in our lives is territory.
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The greatestthing we must do after the war is to keep our vast industries busy.
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The local council thought that they were the greatestthing since sliced bread.
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It is not true that we achieved the greatestthing since sliced bread.
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That is probably the single greatestthing on which they pride themselves.
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It was the greatestthing since the £5 note.
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But that is not the greatestthing that remains to be disposed of.
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The greatestthing that we want in the service is sympathy and understanding.
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The general growth of scepticism that can be expected to follow education is perhaps the greatestthing we can hope for in this particular matter.
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The greatestthing we can give to our children is a state where the moral are encouraged and the immoral are discouraged.
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That is the greatestthing that the industry of the country has to fight to-day, and the greatest cause of it is uncertainty about employment.
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I came to think that the greatestthing they can conserve is our freedom, because that must be conserved.
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I regard this as being possibly the greatestthing that could be done to reduce the number of casualties.
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The greatestthing for somebody who is faced with death, perhaps through the tragedy of cancer, is the ability to die with dignity.
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So, from an industrial point of view, the greatestthing we need is a sense of confidence and understanding among all the people who are working together.
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I remember that somebody once said that the greatestthing in the world was to have a good deed done by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
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He has said that the greatestthing they are out to do now is to bring about the amalgamation or grouping of water undertakers.
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