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Example sentences for "great measure"

  • The character of Mr. Browning's friendships reveals itself in great measure in even a simple outline of his life.

  • But all this had to come; and it is only fair to admit that twenty-nine years ago the beauties of which I have spoken were in great measure to come also.

  • Both proceeded, in great measure, from his spiritual allegiance to the past--that past by which it was impossible that he should linger, but which he could not yet leave behind.

  • The arrival of Major Reed several days after in a great measure came to relieve the tensity of our nerves and render us a degree of moral support of which we were sorely in need.

  • I say apparently so, because the air seems to be in a great measure concerned in those experiments, and perhaps the whole effect may be produced by that surrounding medium.

  • The sailor had recovered his presence of mind, in a great measure, while Dupin uttered these words; but his original boldness of bearing was all gone.

  • The extreme fury of the blast proved, in a great measure, the salvation of the ship.

  • I was also agreeably surprised to find myself, in a great measure, relieved from the violent pains which had hitherto tormented me.

  • It had lost, in a great measure, the deep tint of blue it had hitherto worn, being now of a grayish-white, and of a lustre dazzling to the eye.

  • The difference between men consists, in a great measure, in the intelligence of their observation.

  • The Magdalen Hospital was also established in a great measure through Mr. Hanway's exertions.

  • It is the opinion of many well-informed men that in the course of a few months important changes will be made in the composition of the ministry.

  • This elegant art depends in a great measure on copying.

  • This enormous profit has called into existence a multitude of competitors; and in this instance the impossibility of verifying has, in a great measure, counteracted the beneficial effects of competition.

  • In British East Africa a road connecting Mombasa with Victoria Nyanza was completed in 1897, but has since been in great measure superseded by the railway.

  • For this revolution in its favour, Comparative Anatomy was in a great measure indebted to the learned societies which were established about this time in the different countries of Europe.

  • The complexity of composition militates in a great measure against a rational classification of albumins by purely chemical considerations.

  • Ancient Balkh or Bactriana was a province of the Achaemenian empire, and probably was occupied in great measure by a race of Iranian blood.

  • In France, there is undoubtedly a more general diffusion of knowledge than in any part of the European world, and I attribute it, in a great measure, to the social intercourse which has long subsisted between the sexes.

  • But the executive and, still more, the judiciary departments are yet in a great measure confined to their primitive organization, and are now not adequate to the urgent wants of a still growing community.

  • The piracies by which our commerce in the neighborhood of the island of Cuba had been afflicted have been repressed and the confidence of our merchants in a great measure restored.

  • In short, the different ranks of men are, in a great measure, regulated by riches; and that with regard to superiors as well as inferiors, strangers as well as acquaintance.

  • So he repelled the Jews in great measure by the Arabian archers, and the Syrian slingers, and by those that threw stones at them, nor was there any intermission of the great number of their offensive engines.

  • This explanation may be correct in a great measure; but, of course, it will not apply to the water over banks that lie out in the sea, far from any land.

  • This additional immersion could only have awkward effects when the ship came into the ice, as its effect would then be to retard the lifting by the ice, on which the safety of the ship was believed to depend in a great measure.

  • To the outside world such a history has probably no very great attraction, and consequently could bring an author no great measure of reputation.

  • Whatever was accomplished during these early times was owing, in a great measure, to the meritorious efforts of ecclesiastical bodies or private individuals.

  • These military retainers conducted themselves with great insolence towards the industrious part of the community--lived in a great measure by plunder, and were ready to execute any commands of their master, however unlawful.

  • Ignorant in a great measure of its contents, Mary Avenel had been taught from her infancy to hold this volume in sacred veneration.

  • In fact, they relate in a great measure to different persons, as well as to a different period.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    four months; great admirer; great delight; great demand; great fame; great forest; great future; great glee; great height; great hill; great horse; great luxury; great military; great pains; great powers; great prophet; great rock; great sinner; great soldier; great southern; great spear; great want; greater numbers; greater part; greatest width; greatly mistaken