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In the 1980s a great number of unauthorized immigrants from Caribbean and Central American countries began arriving in the United States.

From Slate

True, a great number of musicians have achieved success with limited or no vision, and a preternatural pianist like John would be no different should he continue to compose.

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Whatever HTS’ ultimate motives, the great number and variety of anti-Assad rebel groups complicate the stakes and contours of this chapter in the civil war.

From Slate

“I’ve already heard a great number of people saying, ... ‘It’s not even, say, half of Denmark’s annual emissions.

At the launch of a roadmap for its space ambitions, which include building a research station on the Moon, returning samples of Venus’s atmosphere to Earth and launching more than 30 space missions by the middle of this century, Ding Chibiao from the Chinese Academy of Sciences said the country did not have a great number of achievements “compared to developed nations”.

From BBC

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