1.   Great achievements require confidence and always meet with criticism, often with derision.

2.   It has produced great achievements but also notable waste.

3.   The great achievements of the seventeenth century seem to testify to a new independence of scientific inquiry.

4.   Winning the award was a great achievement.

5.   His great achievement is to make all the players into a united team.

6.   Reaching this agreement so quickly was a great achievement.

7.   It was a great achievement.

8.   Indeed a fitting day to many great achievements.

9.   THORP is a great technological achievement and a shining example of the best of British know-how and skills.