adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a big/great/massive/huge advantage
▪ It’s a great advantage to be able to speak some Spanish.
a big/huge/massive argument
▪ There was a big argument about whether we should move to a new house.
a big/huge/massive fan
▪ Elizabeth is a massive fan of Elton John.
a big/major/massive/huge investment
▪ Developing a new computer system is always a big investment for any organisation.
a great/huge/massive expansion (=very big)
▪ There are plans for a massive expansion of the oil and gas industries.
a great/massive earthquake (=extremely big)
▪ 1906 is remembered for the great earthquake that destroyed San Francisco.
a huge/massive demonstration (=very big)
▪ a series of massive demonstrations against the war
a huge/massive study
▪ The journal published the results of a massive study of 87,000 women.
a huge/massive/enormous explosion
▪ An enormous explosion tore the roof off the building.
a large/huge/massive rally
▪ Several large rallies were held in December.
a major/massive programme
▪ A major programme of modernisation is transforming public transport in London.
a massive protest
▪ They reacted to the king’s forced abdication with massive public protests.
a massive reduction (=very large)
▪ There is no reason why the new technology should mean a massive reduction in employment.
a massive/major stroke (=one that has very bad effects)
▪ Her brother has just died of a massive stroke.
considerable/massive/extensive publicity
▪ The opening of the trial generated considerable publicity.
enormous/massive/gigantic etc proportions
▪ The company is heading towards a disaster of enormous proportions.
great/massive destruction
▪ Much of the city was rebuilt after the massive destruction of World War II.
huge/enormous/massive
▪ Industry has a huge impact on the environment we live in.
▪ The impact has been enormous on people's daily lives.
huge/massive (=very big)
▪ The recession left the Government with a massive deficit.
huge/massive (=very big)
▪ There was a huge increase in emigration after the war.
huge/massive
▪ The result was a huge rise in unemployment.
massive retaliation
▪ the threat of massive retaliation against British troops
massive support
▪ We have massive public support.
massive unemployment
▪ These measures could result in massive unemployment in the construction industry.
massive/great/huge etc influx
▪ a large influx of tourists in the summer
massive/huge
▪ Dean shrugged his massive shoulders.
on a massive/huge scale
▪ The drug is produced on a massive scale.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
more
▪ She was made of flexible bamboo, while the majority of the other rafts had been more massive, sturdy timber structures.
▪ Held fast by their iron hoops, they seemed more massive than their size; massive with an inner strength.
▪ This seems bizarre enough, but what about a star which is more massive still?
▪ The Cytherean atmosphere is far more massive than that of the Earth, and the surface temperatures are considerably higher.
▪ Unless the companion is vastly more massive than the Sun, this also indicates that the stars have small orbits.
▪ The railways made a more massive impact.
▪ However, stars more massive than the sun will burn up their fuel much more rapidly.
■ NOUN
amount
▪ Conversely, it takes a quite massive amount of scientific evidence to have a substance positively recommended for health.
▪ Many of these projects are now losing massive amounts of money and only survive with public subsidies.
▪ Leaks from Clinton's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn.
▪ The problem, he said, was in developing a system capable of recording the massive amounts of information.
▪ There is a massive amount of crime which is never recognised.
▪ National and Statewide campaigns also require massive amounts of energy and stamina, as well as superior fund raising skills.
▪ The most important area on which to concentrate was the massive amount of water required by the production of textiles.
▪ They sold massive amounts of albums and concert tickets, but were never a singles band.
attack
▪ In parts of Lincolnshire, for example, the early seventeenth century saw a massive attack on the former open fields.
▪ A Colonel Herbinger, drunk at the time, thought in his stupor that the enemy had launched a massive attack.
▪ The massive attacks work well for the opening movement, with its homage to Bach.
body
▪ The axial spin of the more massive body M tends to carry the tide ahead of the orbital motion.
▪ It seemed a physical impossibility, her massive body bounding with the grace of a ballerina.
▪ Even so, the implications of this theory for old stars and other massive bodies were not generally realized until the 1960s.
▪ A moment later, the whole massive body of the Titan itself lurched and tottered.
▪ Marsanne is known for its massive body and intense honey flavors.
▪ More generally, document boundaries may be blurred and a massive body of material may be collected together in one interlinked corpus.
▪ This would require a massive body taking such a path to follow a space-like geodesic.
change
▪ But the Seventies and Eighties brought massive change.
▪ Part of the problem was that the act called for massive changes in education without putting any of the infrastructure in place.
▪ Yet the return of the Republicans from the wilderness did not lead to massive changes in domestic policy.
▪ A massive change of public sentiment is always overdetermined.
▪ Economic development was also creating massive changes in the subordinate classes.
▪ To cope with these massive changes, entrepreneurial governments have begun to transform themselves.
▪ Electricity turned night into day, a massive change.
▪ None concedes the massive change of principle that such an extension would require.
expansion
▪ The sudden and massive expansion of the company's market in the early Seventies had several repercussions.
▪ For individuals this means more complex forms and a massive expansion of means testing.
▪ It fully expected a massive expansion.
▪ There was also a massive expansion in the formal schooling system, with an emphasis on building rural schools.
explosion
▪ The impact had caused a massive explosion which had ravaged the planet.
▪ Witnesses reported at least one massive explosion, which rocked houses up to a quarter of a mile away.
▪ A massive explosion occurred during testing at Tobolsk on the same pipeline in October.
heart
▪ The patient had come to the hospital for tests, and suffered a massive heart attack.
▪ Of course, he defied doctor's orders, and in 1977 he died of a massive heart attack, aged sixty.
▪ Little Sam Howard-Murphy was just three weeks old when he died from massive heart problems.
▪ Staff made frantic attempts to revive him but he is thought to have suffered a massive heart attack.
increase
▪ We are anxious to know where this massive increase will be found?
▪ For example, the huge increase in the number of motor vehicles has led to a massive increase in auto-crimes.
▪ Despite the massive increase in the volume of research in psychology and ethology, little progress seems to have been made.
▪ To cope with the massive increase in prosecutions, the paper even suggests revisions to the legal system to deal with offenders.
▪ The main factor causing this redistribution seems to have been a massive increase in non-serious wounding.
▪ Would not a massive increase of jobs ensure that training be integrated to economic revival and be more productive in finding work?
▪ We have made it clear that we see no case for a further massive increase in the structural funds.
▪ There was a massive increase in the past few years, now there is a complete slump.
investment
▪ Vauxhall has shrugged off the difficulties faced by other car manufacturers to bring the massive investment to its plant at Ellesmere Port.
▪ Polaroid is not going to make any new massive investments in instant photography for consumers.
▪ There is massive investment in disease and mortality which the system protects by distracting people's attention from it.
▪ The Communists made massive investments that did not pay off because of a poor incentive structure.
▪ We have massive investment at present and we want to see it continue.
▪ Some third world countries are now making massive investment in basic education.
▪ The result was a massive investment in staff training and development.
retaliation
▪ The alternative is massive retaliation by missiles aimed at the enemy's cities, which will stay put.
▪ Dulles used massive retaliation as the chief instrument of containment.
▪ There was a psychological as well as a military problem involved in massive retaliation.
▪ In its first test massive retaliation had won a victory.
▪ The strategy would later be called massive retaliation.
▪ Dulles called the policy massive retaliation.
scale
▪ The retirement condition encouraged an end to workforce participation on a massive scale and established arbitrary ages as the customary retirement ages.
▪ It was the first time women used e-mail on such a massive scale to network and to influence the foreign policy community.
▪ Token descriptions on a massive scale are now possible with the development of the computer.
▪ But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
▪ To give body to the reforms new building was needed on a massive scale.
▪ And who are these guys to second-guess the Founding Fathers on such a massive scale?
▪ The past decade has seen labour-shedding on a massive scale.
▪ There was also evidence of vote-buying on a massive scale.
stone
▪ The surface was paved with massive stones and on these watery foundations Venice was built - a floating city!
▪ The surgeons of our corps selected for a hospital a large massive stone building....
▪ With massive stone lintels curved to follow the circumference of a circle, the neolithic builders were accurate in their work.
▪ A colonnade of massive stone pillars extended along the entire 462 feet of its front.
▪ They were probably also used to transport the massive stones needed for constructing the complex.
▪ The vault was supported on eight massive stone piers fronted by granite columns 38 feet high.
stroke
▪ He died suddenly of another massive stroke three and a half years after his original illness.
▪ In April 1991, ten months after reelection, Molly suffered a massive stroke that incapacitated her for months.
▪ But I am sorry to tell you that he passed away on after a massive stroke.
▪ Bill Dailey, 54, a bartender at the downtown Radisson Hotel, also bounded back from a massive stroke.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a massive tax bill
▪ Her house is massive.
▪ I had a massive argument with Vicky yesterday.
▪ The ancient temple's massive stone pillars had begun to crumble.
▪ The sums involved are massive -- over £12 billion in the first year alone.
▪ The system is capable of recording massive amounts of information.
▪ Union leaders are warning of massive job losses.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But de Lattre, personally taking charge, flew in reinforcements and mustered every available aircraft to bomb the massive Vietminh formations.
▪ From inside they hear a massive and hysterical scream of the friends letting out their true feelings.
▪ Gradually the new global masterplan is falling into place: a series of massive bilateral trade agreements are being struck.
▪ His quarter-measures have brought higher prices, and also provoked massive strikes, but without any prospect of stabilising the economy.
▪ Oswald lay still, aware of a drone in the block, a heaving breath, grimness, massive sleep.
▪ The most influential critics were either misanthropic or committed to the need for massive reform.
▪ There is massive investment in disease and mortality which the system protects by distracting people's attention from it.
▪ There is a massive file cabinet stuffed with documents so old and densely packed they may be ready to ignite spontaneously.