serious difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsofseriousanddifficulty

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serious
adjective
uk
/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us
/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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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 ofseriousanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserious difficulty

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Again, there is noseriousdifficultyif it combines with an eventive situation.
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However, there is aseriousdifficultyin principle a t the present state of the convergence theory.
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A moreseriousdifficultyis encountered when the passage in question is re-examined.
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Note that unknown words are aseriousdifficultyfor the intelligent aspects of the system that require part-of-speech and some semantic information on the words.
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The locking into place that is a nuisance in imperative languages is a veryseriousdifficultyin logic programming languages.
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This seems unreasonable when we are just interpolating between two given data points, and is aseriousdifficultyin applications requiring estimation of angular velocities.
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To cause animalsseriousdifficulty, the same-different task was psychophysically scaled.
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Perhaps the mostseriousdifficultyis the shortage of statistical techniques for handling complex interactions.
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In this case, the cohomology problem lives in a family of vector spaces which is not a smooth bundle, but this should not be aseriousdifficulty.
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One cannot accept the proposition that there is any grave orseriousdifficultyabout it.
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This time it is the other way round, and it is not, therefore, aseriousdifficulty.
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I cannot think that that is really aseriousdifficultyat the present time.
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I assure him that it is aseriousdifficultyput forward in all good faith.
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Another veryseriousdifficultyis that the choice of venue in which prosecution can be conducted is very wide.
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I continue to believe that lowland livestock farmers are in the mostseriousdifficultyof anyone in agriculture.
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As regards ground staffs, in the event of mobilisation there would be noseriousdifficulty.
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I would assure him that we are doing our utmost to try to overcome that veryseriousdifficulty.
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It is a veryseriousdifficulty, of which this is a very happy solution.
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