Most of the names I knew relatively well: their appointments would be follow-ups on diabetes, mental health problems, heart disease, or any number of the myriad difficulties many of us struggle along with.
In view of the dependence of metaphor on context and extensive knowledge, and the myriad difficulties still confronting all aspects of language understanding, it is not surprising that no general system for processing metaphor in context exists, let alone for using metaphor creatively.
And yet it is hard to pick one single factor topping voters' concerns out of the myriad difficulties Kosovo faces.
"People call us with tales of hunger, home loss, job loss, personal loss, and myriad difficulties," Reams and King wrote on their blog in May 2010.
Of course this contrasts completely with the American qualities of straightforwardness that I still display after many years here and that get me into myriad difficulties.
Most realised the state was faced with myriad difficulties in search and retrieval.
He understands the myriad difficulties facing low-income families.
For one, the stereotype glossed over the myriad difficulties their communities faced: poverty, drugs, suicide, mental illness.
Overheating causes myriad difficulties and the computer bays in most work desks do not provide sufficient air-flow.
Women returning may face a myriad of difficulties after returning including family difficulties, poverty, stigma and social isolation, which pose serious challenges for their recovery.
