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very brink

collocation in English

meanings of veryand brink


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very
adjective[before noun]
uk /ˈver.i/ us /ˈver.i/
(used to add emphasis to a noun) exact ...
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brink
noun[S]
uk /brɪŋk/ us /brɪŋk/
the point where a new or different situation is about ...
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Examples of very brink


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At a pessimistic extreme, the city, and not just the urban poor, was claimed to be teetering at the verybrink.
We have been on the verybrink of a crisis.
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It will be observed that the people were on the verybrink of an appeal to force.
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He has brought us to the verybrink of war.
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But the junta did rescue the country from the verybrink of political and economic disaster.
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We are on the verybrink of grave economic disaster.
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That party caused untold hardship in those years and led the country to the verybrink of military disaster in 1940.
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I have concluded that they must mean being suspended over the verybrink of catastrophe, but not yet descending into its jaws.
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By 1980 huge losses brought the paper to the verybrink of closing.
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Those babies are on the verybrink of life.
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It should be recorded that we are discussing the verybrink of viability of a child.
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Surely now, when we are standing on the verybrink of it, we might come to our senses.
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They today are the cushion between the verybrink of atomic war and giving time and thought for sanity to prevail.
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So many times in our industrial history since the war we have reached the verybrink; we have carried out the research and development and produced a prototype.
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We are standing on the verybrink of a catastrophe which, in magnitude, may be far greater than the terrible calamity which we imagined was ended four years ago.
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New ideas have in this country frequently been brought forward, taken through the design stage to the verybrink of production, and then not been exploited.
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The woodhen was at the verybrink of extinction in 1980, with just 15 individuals found.
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