serious limitation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofseriousandlimitation
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serious
adjective
uk/ˈsɪə.ri.əs/us/ˈsɪr.i.əs/
severe in ...
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limitation
noun
uk/ˌlɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌlɪm.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the act of controlling and especially ...
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(Definition ofseriousandlimitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This is aseriouslimitation.
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To me this is aseriouslimitation.
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Despite thisseriouslimitationthere are good things here.
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Obviously, this is aseriouslimitationwhich needs to be overcome.
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This is becoming an increasinglyseriouslimitationwith the proliferation of multi-core machines.
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That is aseriouslimitation.
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There is aseriouslimitation.
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This, however, is a veryseriouslimitation, and it seems rather critical for any model of creative problem solving.
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This could be aseriouslimitation, if effects of neighborhood density can be clearly shown to influence nonword perception.
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The first and perhaps mostseriouslimitationstems from the difficulty of drawing a representative sample of the population.
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Aseriouslimitationof the technique is the long computation time required for the numerical evaluation of the inversion integrals.
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This constitutes aseriouslimitationon contraceptive methods until the advent of the pill for the morning after.
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Fourthly, the use of a self-assessment only is problematical for personality assessment, and constitutes aseriouslimitation.
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That is a veryseriouslimitation.
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This is a veryseriouslimitation.
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That is a prettyseriouslimitation.
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The lack of a precise measure of the appropriate deforestation process is aseriouslimitationof previous studies on the topic.
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This is aseriouslimitationfor a textbook which aims to stimulate students to think about this century's pressing issues and controversies.
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However, this can be aseriouslimitationin other cases, and explicit negative information plays an important role in natural discourse and commonsense reasoning.
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The much moreseriouslimitationis that no evidence is absolute and every decision remains a gamble in the face of a range of probabilities and possibilities.
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This restriction is not aseriouslimitationsince the address of an actor whose behavior is the desired lambda abstraction can be passed in a message.
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That would be aseriouslimitationon our ability to assess the value of the exercise.
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That reservation is itself aseriouslimitationon what the insurance market can do.
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That in itself has proved over the past year or two to be aseriouslimitation.
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