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Simple sentences
You are the great love of my life.
Most people have great disinclinations to get out of bed early, even if they have to.
With great effort he climbed up the tree.
Even if you make great efforts, you won't be able to achieve it.
It was a great shock to me.
That's a great idea.
The sculptures are of great value.
This book is of great use.
This dictionary is great boon up to us.
There is a great demand for gasoline.
Dad! Mom! I have some great news for you!
The next morning, to our great relief, he returned home safe and sound.
He is making great progress in English.
The discrepancy between the stories of the two parties involved in the accident was so great that the authorities had a hard time deciding which side was telling the truth.
I have a great fear of being disdained by those I love and care about.
James had a great fear of making mistakes in class and being reprimanded.
A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
It's difficult to have great ideas.
Avoid opening the window; I have no great desire to feel air currents on my back.
Almost half the men in Great Britain regularly give chocolate to their partner, especially for their birthday.
Nothing great has been achieved by playing it safe.
You must not look upon him as great.
Your plan sounds great.
It is a great pleasure being with you.
There were a great many people at the airport.
As for the air, there is always some moisture in the atmosphere, but when the amount increases a great deal, it affects the light waves.
Slight inattention can cause a great disaster.
To my great surprise, we won!
Smoking has a great deal to do with cancer.
Movie subtitles
If she lives so great, why would she abondon me?
You pushed my schedule forward a great deal.
The Tower of London was a pretty primitive edifice compared with the splendours of the great towers of imperial China.
But it was utterly transformed in 1 086 by the great Chinese inventor Su Song.
Yongle and Zheng He would become one of the great double acts of Chinese history.
The great reversal of fortunes was now unstoppable.
AII the great European cities were proud of their own autonomy.
And craftsmanship brings us back to that great Chinese invention the clock.
Great empires are complex things.
This is one of the great outposts of British penetration of Asia - the Shanghai Bund.
He is a great Mormon, and you, well, you're a. great follower.
That was great!
Nice to meet you. And my name is Elder Church, originally from the great city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
No, I'm grateful. You pushed my schedule forward a great deal.
That was the great result from the survey done at Kootwijk in collaboration with our colleagues from Sydney.
You've brought me great news.
I have great news! - Any new developments?
To make the most out of these huge areas the nomadic Arabs have neglected, we need big capitalist companies who possess great means.
A lot remains to be done in this great country.
It's a great concept.
Our paper had to concede his great success, organized, it must be said, by the Arab Office.
Ooh. Look, you're a great lay, but I think we should keep this client-attorney business strictly professional.
Isn't that great news?
Oh, she's doing great.
Great, now we're dealing with a mathematician from Greece?
He's been on staff at his current high school for the last 12 years, diligent and had a great work ethic.
The Great Spirit, He was the one who gave us these physical bodies.
Great.
That would be great, Nick.
Uh, Frankie, I'm not sure this is a great idea.
It's a privilege, and with great privilege comes great responsibility.
Two great friends are we.
Oh, right, great - thanks.
Great time to get that out in the open.
They have a really great friendship, possibly more, so it's great to see them on-screen together. Lydia!
And when I found out it was Jackson, I thought it was a great twist.
They've had some, you know, misunderstandings and trust issues, but I think that is what, you know, makes Scott and Allison so great to watch, because they overcome all these odds.
You said we are great roommates.
Oh, sure. That'd be great. Yeah.
News and current affairs
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's.
Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.
That is why the war's great hero, Winston Churchill, was voted out of office in the summer of 1945, even before Japan surrendered.
Few people can muster great enthusiasm for the UN.
But the 1945 consensus was dealt a much greater blow precisely when we all rejoiced at the collapse of the Soviet Empire, the other great twentieth-century tyranny.
That this Arab renaissance - to use the phrase of the great Palestinian scholar George Antonius - did not take place may have been Eban's greatest disappointment.
For example, simply changing the color of roofs in warm climates to reflect sunlight or planting trees around houses can lead to great savings on energy used for air conditioning.
These imbalances can be redressed only with great effort, if at all, and only if one accepts a decade of stagnation.
The state of economic knowledge was just as bad in the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock market crash.
This idea has great appeal to people in the region, but only the EU can make it happen.
This is what is great about technological solutions to climate change: if an alternative option is cheaper, people will start using it.
The Communist Party represented China's destiny as a great power.
But there had been no other examples since the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Indeed, it was this dynamic - against which John Maynard Keynes fought - that made the Great Depression of the 1930's so grim.
Even the United States abrogated indexation clauses in bond contracts during the Great Depression of the 1930's. So it can happen anywhere.
One of Obama's great achievements is that he made it into a serious topic through the brilliance and subtlety of his rhetoric.
This controversy has threatened to cast a pall over a much-heralded summit between two of the world's great democracies.
In literary terms, this conspiracy theory closely resembles The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, featuring secretive global elite with great power and wicked aims.
PRINCETON - What we are doing to our planet, to our children and grandchildren, and to the poor, by our heedless production of greenhouse gases, is one of the great moral wrongs of our age.
There will be climbers hanging banners high in the Himalayas, where the glaciers are melting, and scuba divers at Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is threatened by climate change.
We have seen it in Great Britain and the US.
The Internet, one of the great inventions of the modern Western world, has shown itself to be a weapon that can be used to incite and train those who wish to cause harm to that world.
The field is too full of mines. One of Obama's great achievements is that he made it into a serious topic through the brilliance and subtlety of his rhetoric.