Great
Great adjective - Coming before all others in importance.
Usage example: regards global warming as the great issue of the day
Minor
Minor adjective - Lacking importance.
Usage example: only a minor detail, which we can easily disregard for the moment
Both words in one sentence
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The very minor character Riko Kanada does this to great effect in Princess Waltz, revealing that she's not a minor character after all, but the Heel Face Turned steel princess Liesel.
Source: The Glasses Come Off -
On the other hand the Americans were transferred to other camps just before the great escape but the movie has only three American characters, one of them fairly minor.
Source: Film / The Great Escape - In Tamora Pierce's Tortall Universe, there are many gods, some minor and some designated "great," but even the so-called Great Gods often have specific ethnic groups they hold dear.
Source: Ethnic God
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