immense difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsofimmenseanddifficulty

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immense
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmens/us
/ɪˈmens/
extremely large in 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 ofimmenseanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Already in the nineteenth century, ecologically sensitive narratives clashed explicitly with anthropocentric ones, while also faced with theimmensedifficultyof implementing relations equally conducive to cultural and biotic health.
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A large disaffected minority might causeimmensedifficulty.
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Theimmensedifficultyof implanting democratic norms and traditions within societies long subjected to oppression from within and without is terrific.
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I think that it is a subject of enormous importance andimmensedifficulty.
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To propound the question is sufficient to bring home theimmensedifficultyit involves.
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We all know theimmensedifficultyof any such procedure as a luxury tax.
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I realise that there isimmensedifficulty, and that there must be delay.
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That it covers a task, or rather a series of tasks, ofimmensedifficultygoes without saying.
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Even by 1945 and 1946 we knew theimmensedifficultyof our dollar problem.
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Anyone in business knows theimmensedifficultythere is to-day in getting, let us say, new directors to till the vacancies on any board.
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It is not that we are asking him to do something ofimmensedifficulty.
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This is a problem ofimmensedifficultyand complexity.
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That illustrates theimmensedifficultyof placing a monetary value on physical loss and damage.
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I fully appreciate theimmensedifficultyof dealing with the problem.
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He will haveimmensedifficultydeciding where his loyalty lies.
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I recognise at once theimmensedifficultyof achieving that objective.
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I know of many examples where they have resulted inimmensedifficultyfor young people leaving care.
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We know well theimmensedifficultyof the subject.
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There has remained in my mind theimmensedifficultyof dealing with a subject like this in regard to what happened in another place.
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There isimmensedifficultyin stopping a war before it has begun.
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