immense pressure

collocation in English

meaningsofimmenseandpressure

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immense
adjective
uk
/ɪˈmens/us
/ɪˈmens/
extremely large in size ...
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pressure
noun
uk
/ˈpreʃ.ər/us
/ˈpreʃ.ɚ/
the force you produce when you ...
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(Definition ofimmenseandpressurefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It was also in this period that crime figures started their inexorable rise and placed the police underimmensepressure.
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It is clear that districts will be underimmensepressure.
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That is theimmensepressureof population facing the world.
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They have, as we have,immensepressureon their resources.
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That department has been underimmensepressurefor many years.
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Immensepressurewas brought to bear on opticians.
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There will beimmensepressureto maximise profits and dividends.
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There isimmensepressure, too, on our health services.
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We know theimmensepressureupon their programme.
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Theimmensepressureon space necessitated, and the turnover of families facilitated some re-use of graves and removal of memorials in both cities.
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The population's age putsimmensepressureon local government to provide personal services.
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This shortage of beds meansimmensepressureon the available beds.
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Immensepressurewill be imposed by landlords to get families out of the accommodation.
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Local authorities will be underimmensepressureto deliver the mechanisms from the legislative programme.
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My constituent accepted that, but he is underimmensepressurein finding that £1·41.
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It hadimmensepressureput on it to make an interim solution.
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The agencies providing in this sphere are underimmensepressurefrom inflation.
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I am naturally thinking of theimmensepressureof effort which we have got to make.
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Local authorities are underimmensepressureto find appropriate and adequate housing solutions for many people.
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She told me that people were put underimmensepressureto buy goods.
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It placesimmensepressureupon them and leads to great financial burdens.
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The remaining stocks of the commercial species were, however, underimmensepressure.
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That may putimmensepressureon museums' resources and storage space.
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This is important and underlines theimmensepressurethat farming is under at present.
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We know that the social work departments are underimmensepressure, particularly in the cities.
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