"greatly" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

greatly adverbio

verbo + greatly
Kolokacji: 224
greatly increase • greatly reduce • vary greatly • greatly expand • greatly improved • greatly influenced • contribute greatly • ...
greatly + adjetivo
Kolokacji: 21
greatly interested • greatly superior • greatly hence concerned • greatly enlarged • greatly different • ...
(1) interested, concerned
Kolokacji: 2
(5) surprised, skilled
Kolokacji: 2
(6) beloved, preferable
Kolokacji: 2
1. greatly beloved = zdecydowanie ukochany greatly beloved
2. greatly preferable = zdecydowanie lepszy greatly preferable
  • From the U.S. point of view, some form of continued confederation is greatly preferable to a divorce.
  • He told himself to be pragmatic-humiliation was greatly preferable to death.
  • They were preferable to starving to death, but not, as far as she was concerned, greatly preferable.
  • "Sir," Daniel said, deciding to proceed as though none of the previous words had been said--which would've been a greatly preferable situation.
  • Since it was fed with steaks served in gold-plated bowls, the creature presumably regarded a dog's life in Romania as greatly preferable to its existence in Britain.
  • Of course, new construction, especially of the owner-occupied sort, is greatly preferable to trash-filled vacant lots and crack-infested abandoned buildings.
  • A domestic flight would have been greatly preferable.
  • That was a little more than two centuries previously, when a communal understanding had swept the various governments of Rohagi that from now on diplomacy would be greatly preferable to war.
  • While their long-term outlook is greatly preferable to the alternative, it may have had a perverse systemic effect.
  • Mutual and equivalent international commitments covering sectors that are vulnerable to competition would be greatly preferable to the adoption of border tax adjustments to offset trade distortions.

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