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词汇 example_english_enormous-disadvantage
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enormous disadvantage

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meanings of enormousand disadvantage


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enormous
adjective
uk /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ us /əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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disadvantage
noun[C or U]
uk /ˌdɪs.ədˈvɑːn.tɪdʒ/ us /ˌdɪs.ədˈvæn.t̬ɪdʒ/
a condition or situation that causes problems, especially one that causes something or someone to be less successful than other things ...
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Examples of enormous disadvantage


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This is an enormousdisadvantage to anyone who wants to read any displayed information that extends to a fairly large number of frames.
The length of the voyage is in itself an enormousdisadvantage.
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However, in the next financial year it will suffer enormousdisadvantage for so doing.
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Not only that, but it would be an enormousdisadvantage to the smaller traders.
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That again shows the enormousdisadvantage of this procedure.
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Thus, because of the casual nature of their employment, such fishermen as are left are at an enormousdisadvantage compared with their fellow citizens.
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Surely that puts us at an enormousdisadvantage.
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As credit is the one key to defence sales, we are sometimes at an enormousdisadvantage by playing to the rules.
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That is the enormousdisadvantage from which we suffer.
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It will be an enormousdisadvantage in every way.
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To that is added the enormousdisadvantage of having no democratic mandate from a local party for those involved in running the departments.
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He fights at an enormousdisadvantage, and inevitably so.
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Many immigrant children are at an enormousdisadvantage because of their poor educational origins.
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This was plainly calculated to put us at an enormousdisadvantage.
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Where a person is detained in those circumstances, when he is wholly in the hands of the police, he is at an enormousdisadvantage.
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Scotland's pensioners would also be put at an enormousdisadvantage, as the return on their savings would be less.
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They are at an enormousdisadvantage with the colliery owner, who can simply allow the colliery to stand idle and supply his trade from other collieries.
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The more compact nature of our population might enable him to deal with this matter without the enormousdisadvantage which the greater nation suffers through differences of size and complexity.
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This is nowhere mentioned in the document, nor is the enormousdisadvantage of the very great capital cost of the fast breeders which so far have been built or proposed.
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I suggest that we are beginning to see some of the enormous disadvantages that attach to this unstable system of rolling devolution.
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