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The phrase "at the difficulty of" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing challenges or obstacles, but it would be clearer to rephrase it.
Example: "He faced challenges at the difficulty of completing the project on time."
Alternatives: "in light of the difficulty" or "considering the difficulty".
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Employers' bodies fume at the difficulty of shedding labour.
Code-breakers in the U.S. Army and Navy despaired at the difficulty of cracking it.
Most pros seethed at the difficulty of that course, including Hogan.
Later, I would marvel again: at the difficulty of finding a job amid an economic crisis.
The Times reported the "dismay" of the panel at the difficulty of its job.
A soldier expresses his despair at the difficulty of defining the enemy, when enemy soldiers and civilians seemed indistinguishable.
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REPORTER AT LARGE - the difficulty of finding deckspace on a crowded troop transport.
By Raymond Bonner The New Yorker, September 3 , 1990P. 93 REPORTER AT LARGE about the difficulty of establishing democracy in Kenya.
It gets at both the difficulty of all that and the sexiness of it, for want of a better word".
At hospitals, the difficulty of retrieving medical records and the fear of medical malpractice suits have generally made the institutions reluctant release a patient's record.
It also hints at the difficulties of having a sensible discussion about drugs policy.
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