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enormous drain on

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meanings of enormous, drainand on


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enormous
adjective
uk /ɪˈnɔː.məs/ us /əˈnɔːr.məs/
extremely ...
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drain
noun
uk /dreɪn/ us /dreɪn/
a pipe or channel that is used to carry away waste matter and water from a building, or an opening in the road that rain water can ...
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on
preposition
uk /ɒn/ us /ɑːn/
used to show that something is in a position above something else and touching it, or that something is moving into such ...
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Examples of enormous drain on


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They have all been an enormousdrain on the constabulary's reserves and that must be recognised when the funding formula is reviewed.
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In the course of a few years it will involve an enormousdrain on public money.
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The task of seeking to ascertain the truth and then dealing with the corrections is an enormousdrain on management time and effort.
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Their maintenance is an enormousdrain on our defence budget, and, furthermore, they have the capacity to be sold off.
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The growing refugee problem in those areas is already an enormousdrain on the resources of bilateral and multilateral agencies alike.
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The first is the enormousdrain on the resources of our hospitals by means of these distressing and preventable accidents.
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Having them out of work is an enormousdrain on our resources.
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That is an enormousdrain on the resources of the man, and the period of a week or a fortnight has to elapse before he receives anything at all.
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In addition, we have introduced into agriculture an enormousdrain on resources because of the new legal requirements, and all this based on misconceptions regarding hazards of insecticides.
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The delay has been caused by the enormous draining away of funds on industrial disputes.
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