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Example sentences for "great advance"

  • It is a great advance in certain respects over the first novel, but wants the peculiar interest which belonged to that as a partially autobiographical memoir.

  • I was demoralized for the moment, it is plain; but now that I have recovered from the shock, I must say that the fact mentioned seems to show a great advance in common sense from the notions prevailing in my time.

  • Since that time there has been a great advance made in the idea of government--the old idea being that the right to govern came from God to the king, and from the king to his people.

  • So there has been a great advance in the philosophy of punishment--in the treatment of criminals.

  • There has been in the last few years a great advance.

  • The polished surface, which seems to betoken a great advance in technique, was doubtless produced by means of a burnisher.

  • Passing over the unimportant traces of the three succeeding settlements, we find in the sixth city a great advance.

  • But the extensive series of excavations in the island since the British occupation, and the investigation of such fruitful sites as Salamis, Curium, and Kition, have resulted in a great advance of our knowledge of the subject.

  • The later examples show a great advance in modelling, especially in the heads.

  • These facts show that no great advance in the humane and scientific care of the insane was made till towards the middle of the 19th century.

  • This artifice is now merely an incident in the conduct of a limiting process, but in the 17th century, when limiting processes other than the Greek methods for quadratures were new, the introduction of the artifice was a great advance.

  • This severance did not at first prevent a great advance in mathematics in Great Britain.

  • Lefaucheux of France, in the later period, devised a metal gas check cartridge which was a great advance.

  • This was a great advance, as a more accurate division of time was had by improving the isochronous properties of the vibrating escapement.

  • A great advance in milling was made both in America and Europe by the inventions of Oliver Evans.

  • We see a great advance in the structure of the vermalian gut in the remarkable Balanoglossus (Figure 2.

  • On the other hand, we see a great advance in the structure of the heart, which is found underneath the gills in the shape of a centralised muscular tube, and is divided into an auricle and a ventricle.

  • Also, there is a great advance in the structure of the brain, skeleton, muscular system, and other parts.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great amount; great attraction; great benefit; great care; great consequence; great discovery; great empire; great heap; great indignation; great knowledge; great oath; great pain; great passion; great prophet; great prosperity; great scholar; great sense; great sorrow; great spear; great thickness; great trouble; great way; great while; great wind; greater amount; greater number