tremendous strain

collocation in English

meaningsoftremendousandstrain

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tremendous
adjective
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/trɪˈmen.dəs/us
/trɪˈmen.dəs/
very great in amount or level, or ...
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strain
noun
uk
/streɪn/us
/streɪn/
a force or influence that stretches, pulls, or puts pressure on something, sometimes ...
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(Definition oftremendousandstrainfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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This demonstrates the power that bonds of kinship and community could hold, even undertremendousstrain.
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It is a remarkable tribute to their sense of public service; but it is atremendousstrainand cannot go on permanently.
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At the moment it is standing up undertremendousstrainfrom entirely external influences bearing upon it.
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It may be the problem of population increases, which pose such atremendousstrainon the planet's resources and on economic policies.
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The prison service is under atremendousstrain.
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It is imposing atremendousstrainon every class of taxpayer.
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This places atremendousstrainon the education service.
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That will puttremendousstrainon our already overburdened infrastructure.
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It will be a 24-hour job, and will impose atremendousstrainon the officials doing the work.
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Is he not very well aware of thetremendousstrainbeing put on the local authority by the school building programme?
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Despite all that, there will be atremendousstrainon the social services.
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This may not altogether be a bad thing, but it puts atremendousstrainon those having to do the work.
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The work of these industries is placing atremendousstrainon coal production.
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This is link control with a vengeance, a drastic project which may place atremendousstrainupon the headquarters structure.
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There is atremendousstrainon our shipping, and there is the virtual certainty that next winter will see us short of supplies.
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There istremendousstrainand it is very hard to speak unemotionally about it.
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In particular, there have been many occasions where senior executives were working undertremendousstrain.
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We are told that it is atremendousstrainon boys to have to go one and a half miles to school on a bicycle.
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Those of us who worked closely with him know thetremendousstrainthat he has been under.
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