Adjective

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(great)

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Used in referring to a region or place together with the surrounding area ; (of a city) metropolitan.

* 1990 , Geza Peter Lauter & Chikara Higashi, Internationalization of the Japanese Economy , ISBN 0792390520, p. 285

*:more than 25 percent of the country's population live there.

* 1997 , Virginia Boucher, Interlibrary Loan Practices Handbook , ISBN 0838906672, p. 98

*:located in the greater Midwest.

* 2004 , Richard Alan Meckel & Heather Munro Prescott, Children and Youth in Sickness and in Health: A Historical Handbook and Guide , ISBN 0313330417, p. 201

The rate in isolated counties was about a third higher than in the greater metropolitan counties.

Adjective

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* {{quote-book, year=1545, author=Desiderius Erasmus, title=A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=He setteth the high and principall felicitie of man in pleasure, and thiketh that lyfe most pure and godly, whiche may haue greate delectatio and pleasure, and lytle pensiuenes. }}

* {{quote-book, year=c. 1595, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Choise of Valentines, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=132 Perhaps the sillie worme is labour'd sore, And wearied that it can doe noe more; If it be so, as I am greate a-dread, I wish tenne thousand times that I were dead. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1630, author=William Pemble, title=A Briefe Introduction to Geography, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=No more then if you should lay a fly vpon a smooth Cartwheele, or a pinnes head vpon a greate globe. }}