Sentence examples of "a great while" in English
There's no shame in losing to such a great player.
Il n'y a pas de honte à perdre contre un tel adversaire.
A small forest fire can easily spread and quickly become a great conflagration.
Un petit feu de forêt peut facilement se répandre et rapidement devenir un grand incendie.
Just as he was going out, there was a great earthquake.
Au moment où il sortait, il y eut un grand tremblement de terre.
He is proud that his father was a great scientist.
Il est fier que son père soit un grand scientifique.
There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.
Il y a toujours eu une minorité ayant peur de quelque chose et une grande majorité ayant peur de l'obscurité, de l'avenir, du passé, du présent, d'eux-mêmes et de leurs propres ombres.
A great number of students battled for freedom of speech.
Un grand nombre d'étudiants se sont battus pour la liberté d'expression.
He is a great scholar and what is better, a good teacher.
C'est un grand érudit, et qui plus est, un bon enseignant.
He is a great statesman, and what is more a great scholar.
C'est un grand homme d'État, et qui plus est, un grand érudit.
A great number of citizens went into the army.
Un grand nombre de citoyens sont entrés dans l'armée.
Since most speakers of Esperanto have learned the language through self study, the Internet in general, and websites such as www.lernu.net in particular, have been a great boon to the language.
Étant donné que la plupart des locuteurs de l'espéranto ont appris la langue par eux-mêmes, l'Internet en général et des sites web tels que www.lernu.net en particulier, ont été une bénédiction pour la langue.
Christianity has done a great deal for love by making it a sin.
Le christianisme a beaucoup fait pour l’amour en en faisant un péché.
My grandfather amassed a great fortune in the stock market and then lost it all over night.
Mon grand-père amassa une grande fortune à la bourse puis la perdit entièrement du jour au lendemain.
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