severe difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsofsevereanddifficulty

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severe
adjective
uk
/sɪˈvɪər/us
/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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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 ofsevereanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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I have today announced a personal initiative for single or other homeless people with special orseveredifficulty.
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They say that one of their relatives is inseveredifficultybecause he is always watching how the gas and electricity meters are going.
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That presents aseveredifficultyin the current system.
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If there is a statutory provision and it proves impossible to secure a person answering the necessary description, there isseveredifficulty.
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However, the people in mostseveredifficultyare the owner-occupiers—the residents of the 278 privately owned blocks.
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It is an inaccurate and malicious interpretation of people who are inseveredifficulty.
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Local authorities will faceseveredifficultyin presenting any coherent investment programmes.
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Another problem with the system was that general practitioners were experiencingseveredifficultyfulfilling their role as the gatekeeper to invalidity benefit.
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Frankly, we shall haveseveredifficultywith those decisions if they stand up in the appeal courts.
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It is paragraph 6 with which we have theseveredifficulty.
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Anotherseveredifficultyfaced by all provincial museums and galleries is the inadequacy of their purchase funds.
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Late payment is a serious problem and small businesses, which faceseveredifficulty, need to be helped.
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We thus have the strange anomaly in the order which will causeseveredifficultyto our tractor industry.
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I know it is a veryseveredifficulty.
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With hindsight, it is not difficult to see that if the market turned down the business could be in veryseveredifficultyindeed.
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In my submission, the approach of trying to list what is judicial and what is not is bound to lead toseveredifficulty.
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As an expert, he had to acknowledge that the courts were havingseveredifficultyunderstanding the relationship between the various disposals available to them.
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Unless we respond to that, we will be inseveredifficulty.
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This is aseveredifficultyfor many people who need the help.
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Does he accept that manufacturing is inseveredifficulty—some believe, in recession?
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