daunting prospect

collocation in English

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daunting
adjective
uk
/ˈdɔːn.tɪŋ/us
/ˈdɑːn.t̬ɪŋ/
making you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to ...
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prospect
noun
uk
/ˈprɒs.pekt/us
/ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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(Definition ofdauntingandprospectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Both its length and its subject matter will make cover-to-cover reading adauntingprospectfor most readers.
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Entering into training in this area of research is therefore adauntingprospectfor most prospective young investigators.
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This is adauntingprospect, not only because of the immense research programme implied but the complex, disparate nature of the non-agricultural countryside.
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To act as the voice of manufacturing in an agrarian society deeply suspicious of the city and hostile to the goals of industrialism was adauntingprospect.
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That is adauntingprospectfor their treasurers.
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The fact that it is on average launching one new nuclear-powered submarine a month is adauntingprospectby any standard.
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I suppose the farmer can take the local authority to court, but what adauntingprospect, and what a lengthy and expensive procedure!
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He recognised that that is adauntingprospect, but he did not refer to pay and conditions.
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It is adauntingprospectfor myself as his successor.
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Even at an average cost of £2,500 per place, it is not surprising that employers, however well-intentioned, find it adauntingprospect.
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Unless one is a professional person with access to typewriters, office equipment and so on, it is adauntingprospect.
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She is faced with thedauntingprospectof taking on an employer without the benefit of legal aid.
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Given her track record, that was bound to be adauntingprospect.
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That is adauntingprospectand has financial implications.
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In light of her remark about secure supplies, that is adauntingprospect.
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Late at night it presents adauntingprospectfor me, but for many women and more slightly-built people it must seem considerably more daunting.
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The householder knows that if he loses he will have to pay tremendous costs, which is adauntingprospect.
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That is perhaps a ratherdauntingprospectsince all five previous speakers have been luminaries of the medical profession.
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That is adauntingprospect, which emphasises the need for measures to restrain that level of growth.
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I agree that that is a dismaying conclusion and adauntingprospect.
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