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sheer magnitude

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meanings of sheerand magnitude


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sheer
adjective
uk /ʃɪər/ us /ʃɪr/
used to emphasize how very great, important, or powerful a quality or feeling is; ...
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magnitude
noun[U]
uk /ˈmæɡ.nɪ.tʃuːd/ us /ˈmæɡ.nə.tuːd/
the large size or importance ...
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Examples of sheer magnitude


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The resulting ' liberal authoritarianism ' persisted until the s without substantial changes other than growth in the sheermagnitude of repression.
All this helps to overcome the sheermagnitude of finding materials, and increases the odds for efficient serendipity - not much of an option when searching electronically.
I must try to convey the sheermagnitude of the problem.
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Frankly, the sheermagnitude of that change puts the present proposal in the shade.
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I suggest that this mistake shows merely that at least some of us are totally bemused by the sheer magnitude of the colossal figures which are bandied around.
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For example, it was estimated in the early 1990s that it would cost £100 billion to underground the whole system, which demonstrates the sheermagnitude of the situation.
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Some extremely important points have been made during the debate, but no one has yet referred to the sheermagnitude of the money with which we are dealing.
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We should not overlook the sheermagnitude of the task and problems of setting up an administration to handle relief on this scale in another country.
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The sheermagnitude of the data organising effort was staggering, but all within one single comprehensive database.
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Sometimes the sheermagnitude of assets involved (e.g., thousands of wooden distribution poles) requires years of concerted effort to upgrade.
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These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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