rough time
collocation in Englishmeaningsofroughandtime
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rough
adjective
uk/rʌf/us/rʌf/
not even or smooth, often because of being in ...
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time
noun
uk/taɪm/us/taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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(Definition ofroughandtimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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They're just going through a reallyroughtimein their lives.
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Although many missionaries had aroughtime, they were not passive in the tumultuous history of the country in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
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What we can say, however, is that many textile craftsmen's families in the different cities under investigation experienced aroughtimein the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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While we wait for the decision, we have aroughtimelocally.
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I said that business was having aroughtime.
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The farmers have had rather aroughtimeof late.
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They have a difficult androughtimeahead.
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The men themselves have had a ratherroughtime.
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As a result, the working people had aroughtime.
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I think their financial statements indicate that they are going through a fairlyroughtime.
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It is not fair on the tie industry, which has had a veryroughtime.
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He has had aroughtimeever since the war broke out.
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The livestock farmers of my constituency have been having a veryroughtime.
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Will he indicate theroughtimescale of what he has in mind?
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We have had aroughtimeof it economically for the past 15 or 20 years.
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Certainly the textile industry went through aroughtimeduring the major recession.
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I expect to be given aroughtime.
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Anyone who comes into the arena of politics can expect aroughtime.
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Indeed, some have had a veryroughtime.
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