He retained enough eyesight to read with difficulty, and he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1916.
Literacy status was categorized in three categories (read easily, read with difficulty and cannot read) based on respondent capacity to read a sentence given during the interview.
At the same time, they were reading with great difficulty or not at all and most of them had not written a single word in Russian in their lives.
He is, in the best English tradition, a master of eloquent distemper -- "there are people reviewing books, even reviewing poetry, who can read only with difficulty, and begrudge the effort" -- and also of the kind of epigrammatic summary that gains in complexity the more you think about it: "[Robert] Lowell thinks he is chipping away the marble to get at the statue.
I read with surprise of the difficulty that the New York City Fire Department is having in getting applicants to take its upcoming exam.
He still reads and writes with difficulty.
He can read, but writes with difficulty.
The room was packed with reporters, and Ziegler read the statement with difficulty.
Proust did not speak English, and read it only with difficulty (though he translated Ruskin, with much help from others).
He was born blind, in 1870, though he was eventually able to read large type with difficulty.
Literacy (ability to read easily or with difficulty) and wealth (two wealthiest quintiles) were significantly associated with use of institutional delivery; however, neither literacy nor wealth was associated with ANC attendance or with care-seeking for complications.
