extra effort
collocation in Englishmeaningsofextraandeffort
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extra
adjective
uk/ˈek.strə/us/ˈek.strə/
added to what ...
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effort
noun
uk/ˈef.ət/us/ˈef.ɚt/
physical or mental activity needed to ...
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(Definition ofextraandeffortfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofextra effort
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With a small amount ofextraeffort, students can be asked to extend the example in a variety of ways.
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This indicates anextraeffortthat must be invested to obtain a more sophisticated price forecast.
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These results suggest that the deferral of fines may indeed act as an incentive for firms makingextraeffortto proceed with investment.
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A little luck or someextraeffortshould be enough.
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However, it can be modified with littleextraeffortto handle data from replicated experiments.
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The immediate costs of theextraeffortare straightforward.
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This can be done for many different system variants with littleextraeffort.
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Queries should be satisfied through access to multiple sources, as needed, withoutextraeffortby the user.
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Typically, more ambiguous sentences require more discriminant values to be set, reflecting theextraeffortput into identifying the best parse.
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Users are only willing to spendextraefforton something if there is an immediate significant recognisable benefit; learning must be fast and failsafe.
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As postpurchase counseling is not usual care, it should be regarded as anextraeffort.
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The evaluation results indicate that it is worth theextraeffortto take a prosodically sophisticated approach to phrase concatenation.
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They seem to call for special pleading, anextraeffortto legitimise their existence, to demonstrate their dramatic relevance.
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The costs ofextraefforthave a linear relation with the number of first-time users.
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The costs are the immediate costs ofextraeffortand the fact that the number of fish left to catch in the rest of the year has been reduced.
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Competition, although capable of producing positive, progressive behavior - such as inner resolve,extraeffort, and so forth 4 - creates also the danger of divisiveness, underhandedness, and cruelty.
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If a programming environment does not allow these changes to be easily inserted, the programmer must exert considerableextraeffortdevoted solely to the mechanics of change.
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Just like type theory in general, our module system is biased towards structural equivalence between types, but generative type definitions can also be handled with littleextraeffort.
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The pattern for two-level types is delightfully simple, and although parameterized modules are a little tougher to grasp, theextraeffortspent understanding them is well worth it.
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