difficult journey
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifficultandjourney
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difficult
adjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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journey
noun[C]
uk/ˈdʒɜː.ni/us/ˈdʒɝː.ni/
the act of travelling from one place to another, especially in ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandjourneyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Respondents also expressed the feeling that after adifficultjourneythey were not relaxed and could not enjoy themselves.
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Any self-respecting donkey would demand a map, compass, and full belly when undertaking a long anddifficultjourney.
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We have made a decision: now we have to be prepared to keep to it, even though we know it will be adifficultjourney.
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It has had a long anddifficultjourney.
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I want to travel a rather long anddifficultjourney, a journey of the imagination, rather than a journey into strange territory.
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It would also have entailed an extremelydifficultjourneyfor a blind person to undertake.
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We are witnessing no less than the hesitant setting out on thedifficultjourneytowards environmental sustainability.
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Of course, there had been adifficultjourney.
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We knew that he was having a ratherdifficultjourneygetting to this sitting.
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We have reached the end of a long and - we should not conceal this fact - sometimesdifficultjourney.
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They could have been forgiven for being a trifle disappointed about the result and it could have been adifficultjourney.
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It can be a long anddifficultjourneylasting, perhaps, two or three hours.
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We have only to consider the appallinglydifficultjourneywhich took us there.
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It was a very dark and verydifficultjourney.
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It is a mostdifficultjourneyand a somewhat uncomfortable place in which to stay.
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It will be adifficultjourneyfor a number of my constituents, for a number of reasons.
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I know from my visits to it that it rightly calls itself a place of rest on a long anddifficultjourney.
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It is a precarious anddifficultjourneythat requires learning and training opportunities as well as advocacy and professional support.
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But it was adifficultjourney.
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A number of the employees were asked to travel 10 miles on adifficultjourneyto work at another factory owned by the same company.
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