Collocations withdifficulty

These are words often used in combination withdifficulty.

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added difficulty
The added difficulty for the researchers in this research project is the problematic definitions of rural that exist within the academic literature.
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conceptual difficulty
On the other hand, introduction of logical (or equivalently set-theoretic) operations also leads to a conceptual difficulty.
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considerable difficulty
For example, the basic learning module described in section 4.1 would seem to have considerable difficulty simulating common prototype effects.
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continuing difficulty
It is a continuing difficulty to find the appropriate people.
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degree of difficulty
The experiment also recorded a ' user burden ' for each analysis, measuring the degree of difficulty of case assignment of a clause.
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difficulty accessing
Similarly, there is current concern about the extent to which older people from immigrant populations have difficulty accessing services.
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difficulty breathing
She had difficulty breathing and reported generalized pain.
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difficulty communicating
These were chosen after discussions with the user advisory group about situations in which they found difficulty communicating.
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difficulty of recruiting
In this study, we also identified the difficulty of recruiting family dyads into palliative care research.
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difficulty sleeping
By 1958, he was virtually paralyzed, and had difficulty sleeping.
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difficulty understanding
There is good evidence that humans have difficulty understanding random processes as part of causative accounts.
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difficulty walking
She fully recovered her cognitive abilities but was left with difficulty walking, which limited her activities.
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economic difficulty
Unmarried or widowed women also enjoy much greater freedom; however, unless they have some independent source of income, they face constant economic difficulty.
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enormous difficulty
Perhaps the seemingly wobbly structure of this collection reflects the enormous difficulty of describing the history of a movement in waves.
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extreme difficulty
A major research problem, recognised by the authors, is the extreme difficulty involved in gathering any precise and reasonably ' hard ' data on these processes.
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financial difficulty
This suggests that non-elderly adults can have relatively high incomes, while incurring debt and still report material and even financial difficulty.
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formidable difficulty
A materialist who believes that persons are bodies faces a formidable difficulty : if a person is a material object, it cannot be another one at a different time.
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grave difficulty
I find the judicial review a matter of very grave difficulty.
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great difficulty
There is a dogged durability to street-level practices and great difficulty in orchestrating change in whatever direction, whether fundamentally misguided or definitively correct.
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greatest difficulty
A seven-point scale (1=words arousing images with the greatest difficulty and 7=words arousing images most readily) was used.
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immense difficulty
Already in the nineteenth century, ecologically sensitive narratives clashed explicitly with anthropocentric ones, while also faced with the immense difficulty of implementing relations equally conducive to cultural and biotic health.
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increasing difficulty
A total of 60 items with increasing difficulty is presented; when the child does not respond correctly to five consecutive items, the task is ended.
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insuperable difficulty
And there is no insuperable difficulty for the hearer to figure out the semantic relations.
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intrinsic difficulty
However, it is clearly a matter of intrinsic difficulty and not lack of interest that little is known concerning the quantitative nature of recurrence.
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obvious difficulty
An obvious difficulty of this procedure is that often those extraneous estimates were prepared with an econometric specification that contradicts your model.
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perceived difficulty
In part, this bias stems from the perceived difficulty of regulating numerous small firms.
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potential difficulty
Another potential difficulty is negative real yields for certain inflation baskets.
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practical difficulty
A more practical difficulty with the application of seasonal long-memory models or seasonal fractional models is caused by estimating several d parameters.
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psychological difficulty
We realise that we are faced here with a very great psychological difficulty.
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relative difficulty
Both variables reflect aspects of the relative difficulty of crafting districts of equivalent size.
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serious difficulty
Again, there is no serious difficulty if it combines with an eventive situation.
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severe difficulty
I have today announced a personal initiative for single or other homeless people with special or severe difficulty.
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sheer difficulty
Indeed, part of the reason some authors have doubted that people store frequentistic information is the sheer difficulty of learning it by these other means.
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technical difficulty
However, this is a technical difficulty that does not require us to discard connectionist modeling altogether.
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tremendous difficulty
In the monkey, on the other hand, we are able to examine individual cells and resolve single spikes, but have tremendous difficulty in examining entire circuits.
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varying difficulty
Within the standardized tasks, varying difficulty levels may be offered to permit a degree of adaptation to different degrees of severity of cognitive impairment.
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