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Example sentences for "decided advantage"

  • This accustoms one to those conditions, and is a decided advantage if one expects to enter the competitions.

  • When shooting under these conditions in the glaring sunlight, it is a decided advantage to wear suitable, colored large-lensed spectacles to temper the light and rest the eyes.

  • The latter, having a stock to rest against the shoulder and steady one end of the piece, has a decided advantage in quick aiming and in pulling the trigger.

  • The use of special shipping packages that would give the frame-grown produce special recognition on the markets would be a decided advantage to the grower.

  • While there are undoubtedly varieties which are more or less resistant to this trouble, yet the general practice of late planting has been found to be of decided advantage.

  • Dripping points, which in less exaggerated forms than in the pipal tree are common in many parts of the world, are thus of decided advantage.

  • The colored leaves in the predominantly dark green and gloomy rain forest, because of their greater absorption of light and consequently higher transpiration rate, are of decided advantage.

  • Had I accepted his proposal, the chance of a spinning coin might have given him a decided advantage, and I declined his proposition.

  • The change was a decided advantage; wood, water, and grass were plentiful, and not over a mile farther from the branding-pens.

  • The width of the river was a decided advantage in watering a thirsty herd, as it gave the cattle room to thrash around, filling its broad bed for fully a half mile.

  • Far from being a disadvantage, weakness is a decided advantage in this condition.

  • When a man by business worries, occupation with financial affairs, or with political troubles, has apparently worn out one portion of his brain, he may still use other portions to decided advantage.

  • Moreover, they both have weight and power--a decided advantage: a feather weight may be shaken.

  • Professional players, we may observe, have always a decided advantage in respect of judicious choice and mustering their best men.

  • I thought by doing so, I would have a decided advantage if he was disposed to be tricky.

  • The rebels had a decided advantage in position, being at the top of the ridge; and they wounded a great many of our men, by rolling huge stones down on them.

  • But a firmer policy than that actually followed would have been necessary in order to extricate Great Britain from the strife of Portuguese factions, in which her recent action had given a decided advantage to the constitutional party.

  • On the whole, the first month's negotiations had contributed much to a settlement, without giving a decided advantage to either side.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    after seeing; allow him; certain minimum; command the; command them; decided advantage; decided majority; decided that; decided upon; fair sister; flung back; heroic deeds; little embarrassed; main line; milk toast; minute after; not knowing; silver fork; suffer them; take much; thought very; two other; whose nature; will strike; words used