big challenge

collocation in English

meaningsofbigandchallenge

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big
adjective
uk
/bɪɡ/us
/bɪɡ/
large in size ...
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challenge
noun
uk
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/us
/ˈtʃæl.ɪndʒ/
(the situation of being faced with) something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a ...
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(Definition ofbigandchallengefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, digital image analysis of three-dimensional data sets still represents abigchallenge.
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The problem of the process through which ideas become action represents thebigchallengeto music education history.
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Thebigchallengeto international and domestic monetary policies is to separate the economics from the politics.
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Abigchallengewill be the further miniaturization of the manipulation unit.
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It represents abigchallengefor pediatric cardiologists.
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Most readers will appreciate thebigchallengethat the design of such innovative devices present.
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Such an unusual situation is undoubtedly abigchallengeto the relations that need to be established between state authorities and citizens in rural as well as urban areas.
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Because of this, the problem of how to raise money in order to provide education and employment training for children and grown-up children is abigchallengefacing the director.
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The relation of linguistic change and social reality is one of the most fascinating areas of research in historical pragmatics and abigchallengefrom the methodological point of view.
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Obviously, simplification of such a specialized field as micropalaeontology is abigchallengeas most people have hardly ever been exposed to words like 'foraminifera' or 'thecamoebians'!
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Thebigchallengein applying these regulations will be how to build a bridge from service-based competition to facilities-based competition.
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Thebigchallengeto sheep production is to achieve profitability and when that happens we can move forward with confidence.
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The financial crisis is thebigchallenge, and it has to be met head on.
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We are up against abigchallenge, partly military and partly economic.
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Mixed tenure presents abigchallengefor the commonhold and right-to-manage legislation.
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That is alongside the other funding that we have put in, but more will undoubtedly be required—abigchallengefor the international community.
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That still exists in many countries worldwide and it is abigchallengeto change it.
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Mental health problems are abigchallengeand a growth area for the future.
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We are also taking action on thebigchallengefor us—to try to reduce bureaucracy.
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After all, we are trying experimentally to find a way to encourage good teachers to work in areas where raising standards is abigchallenge.
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