Sentence examples for instead of great from inspiring English sources

Instead of great, heroic works, she did what she could.

Instead of great regional companies with distinguished records - Granada Television being a case in point - we have one amorphous mass.

Neither the stadium nor the Olympics came to fruition, and, instead of great architecture, retrofitting is at the top of the agenda.

"And Now You Can Go" is a swift, fleet novel, a spare but polished miniature that isn't ashamed to strive for small truths instead of great lumbering ones.

This year saw a gradual sickening: fewer, smaller, jaundiced leaves; thin, brittle-looking stems; sparse little apples instead of great fat cookers thudding into the grass.

"It would be heartbreaking for the #NBAwards conversation to focus on my behaviour instead of great books," Handler wrote on Twitter.

So instead of big, great and fantastic, there might be colossal, magnificent or delightful.

Instead of greater transparency, they got the NSA.

Instead of greater mutual liability, Germany is now pushing for more mutual rules (see my column is here).

There is a sense, instead, of greater comfort with modernity -- a willingness to include a very wide variety of approaches.

But because parasite levels are likely higher in the former group, the test may discriminate better if a higher parasite threshold is used to diagnose malaria – say, greater than 1000 parasites per μL instead of greater than 0. Raising the diagnostic threshold will decrease the sensitivity of the test, but less so in patients with malaria (Snp-malaria) than in other patients (Snp-other).