difficult time
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdifficultandtime
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difficult
adjective
uk/ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəlt/us/ˈdɪf.ə.kəlt/
needing skill ...
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time
noun
uk/taɪm/us/taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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(Definition ofdifficultandtimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdifficult time
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In the remaining cases, the gentlemen described having adifficulttimewith the transplant.
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Episcopalian feminists had a moredifficulttimegetting their voice heard.
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Has adifficulttimetuning out background noise and concentrating when trying to study.
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Nevertheless, at a verydifficulttimeit had shown some initiative.
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However, the revolutionary period was also a perplexing anddifficulttimefor citizens.
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Some families have a moredifficulttimewith this developmental transition than others.
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They also show the detail with which these women recall their actions during thisdifficulttime.
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Unfortunately, gateway research has had adifficulttimeexplicitly addressing causality.
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Struggling through adifficulttimefor unemployed persons.
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However, the learners who participated in this study had adifficulttimedetecting noun countability properly.
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Endusers and graphic arts services are both having adifficulttimesorting out the options and which ones make sense.
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Because these noises are likely to be quite common in some classrooms, children may have adifficulttimeunderstanding a teacher's instructions.
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It also seems to respect their status as vital individuals in the patient's life and may provide comfort at adifficulttime.
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It is critical to work through and work up a material embedded in adifficulttime, a difficult sequence of disruption, and deep sacred dimension.
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Thus, countries that started from a higher base of price increases had a moredifficulttimekeeping inflation low than those who started out low.
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Anything that can therefore be done to help the patient through thisdifficulttimemust be seen as a positive step.
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While attempting to respond to the weekly student journal writing entries, the author discovered that she sometimes had adifficulttimewriting meaningful responses.
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The existence of such cases might refute our claim that children who do not produce many subjects have adifficulttimelearning verb agreement morphemes.
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