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great flood

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meanings of greatand flood


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great
adjective
uk /ɡreɪt/ us /ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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flood
noun
uk /flʌd/ us /flʌd/
a large amount of water covering an area that is ...
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Examples of great flood


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No doubt if we have an enormous extension of legal aid there will be a greatflood of applications in the early stages.
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Has he had a greatflood of letters about this?
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The result was a greatflood of applications and a mountain of correspondence.
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This greatflood of hands that has come in has been set to work.
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He meant by those words, 50 or 60 years ago, that time and again there would come a greatflood of discontent, easy to dissipate.
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I do not believe that we should be faced with a greatflood of irrelevant petitions.
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Nor do we have any intention of taking no action until a greatflood of imports has arrived and caused the injury.
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We are talking about fewer than 6,000 people, not a greatflood of immigrants.
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When we came to power we faced, very shortly afterwards, a greatflood of price increases.
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The greatflood of eloquence makes one rather nervous.
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I hope we appreciate that this is an attempt at least to check what would otherwise be a greatflood of visitors to this country.
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It is clearly in this direction that we can most speedily and effectively assist the victims of this greatflood disaster.
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An agreement to sell does not result in a greatflood of people to buy.
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I pay tribute to the efficiency of the civil service in dealing with this greatflood of documentation, but we need to transform that.
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Behind the darn which requires to be raised and raised and raised, a heavy, overwhelming, overpowering greatflood of water is rising.
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The greatflood of 1928 caused one-and-a-half acres of arable land to disappear; market gardens were washed away, and dwelling houses were undermined.
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We have a greatflood of barley and it is almost impossible to find the necessary storage for it.
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I expect that we both share similar regrets and have listened to a greatflood of rhetoric and argument.
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At the end of the freeze, it was said, the ice melts and there is a greatflood.
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A greatflood of directly applicable legislation will have to go through without parliamentary approval.
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