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sheer size

collocation in English

meanings of sheerand size


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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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size
noun
uk /saɪz/ us /saɪz/
how large or small something or ...
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Examples of sheer size


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The politics of full presence is rendered impossible by problems of sheersize and immoderate diversity.
Moreover, the sheersize of rich country subsidies is testament to the difficulties of removing subsidies.
The sheersize of the project brought with it enormous organisational complexity and great excitement.
First, the sheersize of the investment in psychiatric hospitals required a large bureaucracy to support them.
In other words, wages would seem to be the critical quantity, not the sheersize of the public sector itself.
Despite their obvious value to those undertaking an analysis of the developing urban environment, the sheersize and complexity of property surveys has proved prohibitive.
Given the sheersize and heterogeneity of the metropolis, is there another more compelling candidate?
Its sheersize in terms of population meant it was likely, in any case, to produce a significant proportion of the members of any political party.
Their chapters collected in this volume provide informed overviews of advances since transition from military rule that do not conceal the sheersize of remaining challenges.
The federal system mapped onto these local divisions, but the sheersize of it mandated that the local divisions and thus particular interests be weakened if not destroyed.
The sheersize of these blocks made it difficult to maintain a traditional design using only perimeter buildings, as this would have resulted in a large empty inner space.
Elite residences are usually the most visible archaeologically due to the masonry construction and sheersize.
The difficulty was the sheersize and ubiquity of that class, which meant that any franchise to which they could realistically aspire risked swamping every other interest.
First, it is because of the sheersize of the industry.
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The hotel and catering statistics on tourism which are now available give us an idea of the sheersize of the problem that we face.
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I agree about the importance of the sheersize of the market.
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It will not be disastrous because of the sheersize of the companies.
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The sheersize of it and its massive intrusion on the landscape take my breath away.
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I refer to the sheersize of these bodies.
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The central problem facing the prison service today is the sheersize of the prison population.
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