greatest difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsofgreatanddifficulty

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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)

Examplesofgreatest difficulty

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A seven-point scale (1=words arousing images with thegreatestdifficultyand 7=words arousing images most readily) was used.
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The activities that caused thegreatestdifficultyand created most dependence, and in which almost all the respondents participated, were non-food shopping and seeing their families.
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In the sample studied in 2002, most farm managers reported the maintenance of the mechanised harvesting system to be thegreatestdifficultyin bringing in that year's harvest.
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Thegreatestdifficultyis rarely liberation.
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Children had thegreatestdifficultywith accepting alteration to a nursery rhyme (a paraphrase) when asked to attend to meaning even though meaning was preserved.
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Above all else, rules and regulations are what constitute thegreatestdifficultyand have given rise to a number of bilateral conflicts over the years.
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They have presented thegreatestdifficultyin 2000 and 2001.
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Thegreatestdifficultythese businesses currently face is in accessing funding and capital.
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Often, they will be the people who have thegreatestdifficultywith filling in complicated application forms.
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In a month of thegreatestdifficultyand the greatest scarcity he said.
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He has thegreatestdifficultyin getting a farm to rent—a farm of any standing at all—and he wonders what the future holds for him.
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Thegreatestdifficultyreally belongs to the soldiers' vote.
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I believe that the railways have thegreatestdifficultyin securing signal staff.
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But it is obviously the common services that have presented thegreatestdifficulty.
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I find thegreatestdifficultyin going further in the case of magistrates' courts.
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It is perhaps in the realm of employment that we come up against thegreatestdifficulty.
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Many local authorities are working under thegreatestdifficulty.
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I want now to deal with what appears to me to be thegreatestdifficultythat we are in.
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As the tenant cannot know, he has thegreatestdifficultyin determining what to do.
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