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A great number of women used to die in childbirth.

For a goalkeeper, it's a great advantage to have big hands.

He's a great comfort to his mother.

She has finally got the job she wanted, but at great personal cost .

The pay differential between workers and management is too great.

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The cinematic effects in her films are clearly borrowed from the great film-makers of the past.

Rome, Carthage and Athens were some of the great city-states of the ancient world.

Gathered all together in this church, we commemorate those who lost their lives in the great war.

As a child, he aspired to be a great writer.

Despite her limitations as an actress, she was a great entertainer.

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We're living in a time of great change.

The numerous awards on the walls bear witness to his great success.

It takes great skill to weave a basket from/out of rushes.

To my great surprise, they agreed to all our demands.

The George Cross is a decoration that is bestowed on British civilians for acts of great bravery.

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Everyone says it's a great movie, but I think it's overrated.

My new hiking boots will be great once I've broken them in.

Ireland boasts beautiful beaches, great restaurants and friendly locals.

I think the party was great.

There's a great film on TV at midnight.

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They left a great enormous pile of washing-up in the sink.

Take your great fat hands off my private things, you!

Who parked that horrible great lorry right outside my window?

She had a whopping great bruise on her arm.

He just stood there with a silly great grin on his face.

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This is your great-uncle George. He's Daddy's uncle.

I have seven grandchildren, and lots of great-nephews and -nieces.

Adelia was my great-aunt and a very grand old lady.

He is the great-great-grandson of Sigmund Freud.

We found the graves of my great-great-grandfather and his first and second wives.