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Example sentences for "great profit"

  • There was another book which I read through and through in early childhood to great profit.

  • The excursion, indeed, cost 1,000 pounds; but it was made to pay, and that to great profit.

  • This civil youth made me a present of a piece of his workmanship to-day, observing, "There is great profit in its power; it will preserve you from the cut of the sword and the firing of the gun.

  • I am told that many cantars of indigo can be purchased in Soudan (in Kanou), at a price which would bring a great profit in Tripoli; but the merchants refuse to engage in this commerce.

  • Burnouses alone bring a great profit; for these are sold to sultans, who require a credit of several months.

  • The merchants also purchase gold there, by which they make a great profit; and all the vessels bound for Aden touch at this Island.

  • They have plenty of horses which they sell in great numbers to the Indians, making a great profit thereby.

  • He still, she told me, looked to make a great profit out of myself, and was thinking to sell me, unless my friends in England speedily sent proposals for my ransom, to the young planter who was in love with me.

  • They sell these wretches for a term of years to the planters, and make a great profit by the transaction.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    great actor; great benefit; great body; great content; great contrast; great cost; great council; great crowd; great delight; great difficulty; great favourite; great painter; great people; great prostration; great scarcity; great sense; great show; great storm; great tendency; great throb; great wisdom; great work; greater amount; greater than; greatly fear; sent down