increasing difficulty

collocation in English

meanings of increaseand difficulty

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increase
noun[C or U]
uk /ˈɪn.kriːs/ us /ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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difficulty
noun
uk /ˈdɪf.ɪ.kəl.ti/ us /ˈdɪf.ə.kəl.t̬i/
the fact of not being easy to do ...
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Examples of increasing difficulty

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A total of 60 items with increasingdifficulty is presented; when the child does not respond correctly to five consecutive items, the task is ended.
The sets contain items with increasingdifficulty level.
In this task, children repeated pseudowords of increasingdifficulty that had been read to them by the experimenter.
The gradually increasing ages relating to increasingdifficulty to conceive renders this explanation somewhat unsatisfactory.
For example, the increasingdifficulty of breast-feeding, given the demands made by earlier children, might be a factor.
In this test children are asked to give definitions for words of increasingdifficulty.
This module consists of 27 exercises presented in order of increasingdifficulty.
Patients present with an unsteady gait - usually walking on tiptoe - and with an increasingdifficulty in manipulating small objects.
This suggests that although participants may initially select intransitive verbs as stimuli, they experience increasingdifficulty applying them toward a complete concept.
To some extent, this trend reflects the increasingdifficulty of trade unions to act as guarantors of economic citizenship.
Behaviorally, subjects reported increasingdifficulty in their ability to concentrate during task performance.
In this test of receptive vocabulary, the children were asked to give definitions for words of increasingdifficulty.
This training ranges from monolingual shadowing (repeating the message to which they are listening using several lags and sentences of increasingdifficulty) to simultaneous interpretation.
These different penalty multipliers reflect the increasingdifficulty in attaining the desired performance.
For instance, from each selected book, passages were extracted from the beginning, the middle and the end, aiming at an increasingdifficulty in the contents.
Each test set started with several example problems, and then progressed with problems of increasingdifficulty.
Structures do not exist in an ever-mounting spiral of increasingdifficulty: the old, by now familiar, structures continue to be present at advanced levels.
This word-recognition test consisted of 33 sentences of increasingdifficulty.
The pupils' books contain a series of activities of increasingdifficulty grouped around the theme(s) of the project book.
These are presented in order of increasingdifficulty.
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