of no account
Example Sentences
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The attackers’ manifest inferiority to Jones et al in terms of intelligence or comedy was of no account.
From The Guardian • Dec. 30, 2016
Such strategies were of no account so long as Germany stayed on the attack.
From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2012
If you can make a living reading the news you must – must! – be able to ice dance, or else your news-reading is of no account.
From The Guardian • Jul. 11, 2011
But practical considerations are of no account in movies like this, which never bear the slightest resemblance to any known reality.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The scrubby vineyards and the crumbling stones become things of no account, for if I wish I can give rein to my imagination, and pick foxgloves and pale campions from a wet, streaking hedge.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
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