great difficulty
collocation in Englishmeaningsofgreatanddifficulty
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great
adjective
uk/ɡreɪt/us/ɡreɪt/
large in amount, size, ...
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difficulty
noun
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəl.ti/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəl.t̬i/
the fact of not being easy to do ...
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(Definition ofgreatanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofgreat difficulty
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There is a dogged durability to street-level practices andgreatdifficultyin orchestrating change in whatever direction, whether fundamentally misguided or definitively correct.
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The punctation of the scutum presents agreatdifficulty.
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Most people who attempt to learn a foreign language havegreatdifficultywith syntactic concepts and constructions that do not occur in their own language.
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Because of his ataxia, he can shop and cook only withgreatdifficulty.
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One and a half years later, she complains about obsessive ideas that she however hasgreatdifficultydescribing.
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Thegreatdifficultyin reading the novel is knowing just what judgments we are to make.
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Yet no matter how flagrant this violation of the conventional notion of character, we havegreatdifficultyin apprehending it.
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But the great body of solar lines give, on the face of the returns,greatdifficultyin the relativity view.
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A key argument is that organizations havegreatdifficultyadapting to their environment, called 'inertia' in this literature.
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The ship hadgreatdifficultyin getting away clear again.
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Several participants reportedgreatdifficultyin finding anyone to provide part-time help with domestic or care tasks.
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Consequently, the government hadgreatdifficultyin procuring enough wheat despite strict restrictions on its inter-state movement.
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One day he went there withgreatdifficulty.
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As noted above, more complex features such as recursion and bounded polymorphism can also be added withoutgreatdifficulty.
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Aid programmes to the ex-communist countries might, withgreatdifficulty, be subjected to systematic, quantitative tests of their cost-effectiveness.
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Agreatdifficultyis that statistical data are missing with regard to migrants and health care and social service consumption.
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Thegreatdifficultyfacing the proponent of such a strategy, however, can be seen when one contrasts it with the more traditional argument for incompatibilism.
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It lies in thegreatdifficultyof ensuring intelligibility within and between the outer and expanding circles without recourse to a common model.
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The mendicant orders were also institutionally healthy, with nogreatdifficultyin attracting capable and committed new recruits.
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