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Example sentences for "great importance"

  • But I have omitted a day which was of great importance to me in its consequences.

  • Chamilly is here, anxious to speak with you upon a matter of great importance.

  • They acknowledged themselves unfit to advise in a matter of so great importance, but earnestly entreated him to leave it to the determination of the senate.

  • Motala is a place of great importance in the manufacturing industry of Sweden.

  • His sound judgment and long practical experience in regard to coal-mining and the various machinery connected with it, rendered him a man of great importance in the northern counties, where his advice was eagerly sought for.

  • This is always a matter of great importance --that the foreman should inspire the workmen with his own spirit, and keep up their harmony and activity to the most productive point.

  • It is certainly of great importance to have a correct conception in regard to the influence of the surrounding conditions on the growth of a plant and on the development of the attribute we are to deal with.

  • In both cases, the principle is becoming of great importance, and many papers published recently indicate its almost universal acceptation.

  • A critical study of the existing evidence seems to be of great importance in order to ascertain the best way of dealing with new facts, and of estimating the value of the factors concerned.

  • For this reason the laws discovered in the experimental garden may be considered of great importance, and they may guide us in our further inquiries.

  • Notwithstanding this, it appears from time to time and has been seen in different countries and at different periods, and, what is of great importance for us, in different strains of carnations.

  • The Books of Samuel take their name from him, and he is a figure of great importance, if not for the history itself, yet for the history of the tradition, the progress of which may be measured by the change of view about his person.

  • So great importance do I attach to the sign of circumcision also in this connection, that I am persuaded that it is sufficient by itself to maintain the separate existence of the nation for ever.

  • Although I arrived at no definite result regarding my own personal business, this short visit to Berlin was memorable for my meeting with Franz Liszt, which afterwards proved of great importance.

  • Before this performance took place many things happened which I must first mention, as they were of great importance to my life.

  • His life, written by his disciple Aimoin of Fleury, in which much of Abbon's correspondence was reproduced, is of great importance as a source for the reign of Robert II.

  • The industries are various, but none of them is of great importance.

  • There are several excellent harbours (notably that of Ytternas), which were at one time of great importance to Russia from the fact that they are frozen up for a much briefer period than those on the coast of Finland.

  • First impressions are of great importance, if given only as such; but if laid down as decided opinions, how apt they are to be erroneous!

  • This latter suggestion would be of great importance to literature, and consequently to the circulation of knowledge.

  • The first of these divisions is of great importance, and is very limited in the variety of its species, although some of those species consist of numerous individuals.

  • The precision with which all operations by machinery are executed, and the exact similarity of the articles thus made, produce a degree of economy in the consumption of the raw material which is, in some cases, of great importance.

  • Taken in this sense, land is clearly of great importance in production.

  • As has already been pointed out, profit sharing is not of great importance in lessening industrial unrest.

  • This common background constituted, in their New World homes, a unifying force of great importance.

  • These charges are of great importance, but it should be remembered that no problem can be solved, or even intelligently attacked, until the essential facts are well in hand.

  • Physical or mental defect is of great importance in dependency, often accompanying bad personal habits as either cause or effect.

  • The commerce of cotton stuffs at Coromandel is of great importance, for all the inhabitants of the Indias dress in those stuffs, and must have them at any price.

  • The Chinese question has always been of great importance in the Philippines.

  • I entreat your Grace to help us, since it is of so great importance.

  • This victory was considerable, not only because of its slight cost, no blood having been shed, but because this place and this island were of great importance.

  • This result was of great importance to the Sangleys, both because so many and the best Spanish soldiers were killed in this place, and because of the weapons that the Sangleys took from them, and which they needed.

  • In the same way he relates his meeting with the accused in a tone of great importance.

  • Boiscoran told Miss Dionysia that he was retained here by a matter of great importance.

  • An old chronicler of the sixteenth century informs us that in his time it was a port of great importance, and the theatre of a large foreign commerce.

  • She was at that time a mere child, and of too tender years to act for herself, particularly in matters of so great importance as those which relate to marital relations.

  • These were points of great importance, and had doubtless been left out of the charter by an oversight arising from an almost total want of a definite geographical knowledge of our northern coast.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "great importance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great advance; great advantage; great battle; great black; great captain; great chamber; great difference; great estate; great friend; great grandson; great hall; great hand; great harm; great heights; great hurry; great king; great many; great merit; great misfortune; great plenty; great river; great weakness; great work; greater perfection; greatly increased; smiling countenance