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Example sentences for "great difference"

  • There's a great difference between a tooth and the crystalline humour; and though you may have succeeded in putting an artificial tooth into a gum, this treatment will not do with the eye.

  • But there is a great difference between a Turk and a Greek, especially an ancient Greek.

  • Certainly not; there is a great difference--for to avoid lying you have only to hold your tongue; and do you think that comes to the same thing as speaking the truth?

  • Yes, but there's a great difference between my work and my leather, and the usual work and leather of the bootmakers.

  • In regard to the vomiting, is there not a great difference in different kinds of arsenical poisoning?

  • He is going to be married to Sarah Catforth (the present wife), ‘and if it was to get abroad it would make a great difference to him.

  • To a question by the judge, he said “it would make a great difference in the time when the severe symptoms appeared, whether the poison was swallowed directly and whether it came into direct contact with the tongue.

  • Can a grain to a grain and a half be detected, for there is a great difference on the subject?

  • After some hot and dry weather there was a great difference in the state of the leaflets on these two plants; those on the unwatered plant in the open ground remaining half, * 'Systema Veg.

  • This degree of diminution certainly would make a great difference to a plant having a tender constitution.

  • Then she added, "It will make a great difference.

  • Not too much, however, Shenac thought--though having the share of Hamish added to her own made a great difference.

  • Yes, that makes a great difference; England can never be home to me, I think.

  • I think I do in a way; but then, you know, coming to England is coming home to me, Madelon, and that makes a great difference.

  • Here the sea is grey like the sky--that makes a great difference.

  • In some few cases varieties tend to keep distinct, by breeding at different seasons, by great difference in size, or by sexual preference.

  • I should premise that a slight change in the treatment of animals sometimes makes a great difference in their fertility; and it is probable that the results observed in different menageries would differ.

  • The Niata cattle in South America show us how small a difference in structure may make, during such periods, a great difference in preserving an animal's life.

  • A speaking trumpet makes a great difference," replied his companion.

  • Whether we permit chance environments to do the work, or whether we design environments for the purpose makes a great difference.

  • But there is a great difference between a proficiency limited to immediate work, and a competency extended to insight into its social bearings; between efficiency in carrying out the plans of others and in one forming one's own.

  • It certainly makes a great difference to his life whether he is fond of them, or whether he regards them merely as means which he has to employ to get something else in which alone he is interested.

  • In his conversations with Thorkel, the king found a great difference in his description of the two earls; for Thorkel was a great friend of Earl Thorfin, but had much to say against Einar.

  • There is great difference between a mere subject, or person governed, and a servant, slave, or child.

  • But in the islands, I don't wish to conceal from anyone that, measured by the rule of the English gentleman's household, there is a great difference.

  • There is not the complication of an English colony, it is true; that makes a great difference.

  • This move to Norfolk Island does make a great difference, no doubt.

  • Between the Crown podarojnaia and the simple podarojnaia, there is a great difference.

  • In the villages, however, there was a great difference.

  • The reader will observe that there is a great difference in the loss of life mentioned in Mr Woodbury's report and in the statements of those who were present.

  • There is, however, a great difference in the behaviour of the drivers of the mails, and coaches which are timed by the post-office, and others which are not.

  • There was also a great difference in the fertility of the two lots which were left uncovered in the greenhouse.

  • On the other hand, with some of the species, as with Nicotiana, there was no difference in fertility between the two sets, although a great difference in height and weight.

  • There was no great difference in the number of flowers and capsules produced by the two lots when both were left freely exposed to the visits of insects.

  • There was no great difference in the proportional number of flowers which produced capsules by these two processes, or in the number of the contained seeds, or in the weight of an equal number of seeds.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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