difficult task
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifficultandtask
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difficult
adjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdifficult task
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As displaced persons, this was a particularlydifficulttask.
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Categorizing crime is always adifficulttask, but violent crimes are usually separated from those related to property or disorder.
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The creation of standards for a technology still in development could be adifficulttask.
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Measuring meaningfully the real exchange rate and the fundamental equilibrium exchange rate is always adifficulttask.
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This is however adifficulttaskgiven that the bilingual education programmes are no longer statesanctioned.
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Note, however, that proving lower bounds for graphs may be an even moredifficulttaskthan for boolean functions.
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This also implies that finding these stable configurations is adifficulttaskthat cannot be solved intuitively.
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Though this is adifficulttask, requiring proper institutional arrangements, it may not be an impossible task, given the benefits from such a programme.
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The reviewer faces adifficulttaskin assessing the author's conclusions because the book has no conclusions as such.
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This is adifficulttask, given that the history of prices is itself under-studied.
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Balancing budgets is adifficulttaskfor any government but existing political institutions may facilitate or hinder this process, producing variations in policy outcomes.
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Doing so proves to be particularly straightforward in studies relying on process-tracing, while for quantitative analyses data requirements make it a verydifficulttask.
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Applying these principles to better recommendations for grassland management is adifficulttask.
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Sadly, there were too many to include here, and it was adifficulttaskto select the few that are published in the following pages.
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The integration of available data to formulate a concrete aetiological base remains adifficulttask.
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The exact calculation of v (c) seems to be adifficulttask.
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Even the best of them have found it adifficulttask.
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Characterizing the notion of a moral virtue seems to me to be an exceptionallydifficulttask.
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The mostdifficulttaskof all is to eliminate daytshmerish from the colloquial language.
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There was a qualitatively similar accuracy profile across groups for all tasks except the mostdifficulttask, form completion.
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