huge obstacle

collocation in English

meaningsofhugeandobstacle

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huge
adjective
uk
/hjuːdʒ/us
/hjuːdʒ/
extremely large in size ...
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obstacle
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɒb.stə.kəl/us
/ˈɑːb.stə.kəl/
something that blocks you so that movement, going forward, or action is prevented or made ...
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(Definition ofhugeandobstaclefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It is ahugeobstacle, often in other countries too, to reaching a reasonable ethnic understanding between citizens.
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Onehugeobstacleto the country's development are the anti-personnel mines which are a threat to the life and health of people.
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The whole issue of the volume of housing benefit and how it forms ahugeobstacleto people taking up work must be addressed.
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There is ahugeobstaclein the way of future investment in the railways.
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Ahugeobstacleis the lack of suitable facilities.
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Use of glutamate antagonists presents ahugeobstaclein that the treatment must overcome selectivity such that binding is only inhibited when excitotoxicity is present.
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People with a severe learning disability face huge obstacles in accessing the services that they require.
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We talk a lot about encouraging a switch of people and goods from road to rail, and yet leave in place huge obstacles to operation of the railways.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
We have had to get over some pretty huge obstacles this year (2007) and the future is looking so good for us.
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