greater

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• The need for an Ebola vaccine in West Africa has never been greater.

• And increasingly smart navigation aids in the cockpit brought far greater precision and efficiency to route planning.

• Duke kept running for offices and losing by ever-greater margins.

• The hope was that greater transparency about performance would drive results.

• Veterans are a small minority of the population, as well, serving the greater whole.

• Greater mischiefs happen often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

• The clock struck ten, and clerks poured in faster than ever, each one in a greater perspiration than his predecessor.

• Tobacco is a strong growing plant resisting heat and drought to a far (p. 018) greater extent than most plants.

• In the old world, poverty seemed, and poverty was, the natural and inevitable lot of the greater portion of mankind.

• Never then was there a moment in which there was greater need for sane and serious thought.