continuing difficulty

collocation in English

meaningsofcontinueanddifficulty

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continue
verb
uk
/kənˈtɪn.juː/us
/kənˈtɪn.juː/
to keep happening, existing, or doing something, or to cause something or someone to ...
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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 ofcontinueanddifficultyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Delays in the examination of patterns are occurring because ofcontinuingdifficultyin recruiting and retaining specialist staff.
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It is acontinuingdifficultyto find the appropriate people.
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Unless that assurance can be given, there will becontinuingdifficulty.
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Delays in the examination of patterns are occurring because ofcontinuingdifficultyin recruiting and retaining specialist staff.
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We come now to the nub of the currentcontinuingdifficulty.
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This will be acontinuingdifficultyin this area.
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It is not just a source of immediate difficulty: it will be a source ofcontinuingdifficultyfor them.
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The traffic problem there is bad enough without having thiscontinuingdifficulty.
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Until we can move to that, we shall havecontinuingdifficulty.
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I am aware that many maintenance payments are not being paid and that that creates acontinuingdifficulty.
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It would almost be possible to impose a solution, and then be saddled withcontinuingdifficultyand very dangerous situations in the future.
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There seems to me to be acontinuingdifficultyfor people in defining exactly what we view our agricultural industry as fulfilling.
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This will be acontinuingdifficulty.
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Nevertheless, there remain some areas ofcontinuingdifficultywhere our objective must be to assist the necessary process of adjustment to the realities of today's world markets.
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Mycontinuingdifficultyis: consent to what?
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An important point is that in cases ofcontinuingdifficultythere is an existing power, similar to the power suggested in the amendment, to make other things county matters.
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This is instanced by thecontinuingdifficultyin dealing as expeditiously as parties have the right to expect with civil work after the close of the record in such cases.
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