adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
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On each occasion, though, the upward journey took longer, the years and events making the burden more cumbersome .
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Previously, large drums would have to be lifted and paint poured into the much smaller spray jug - rather cumbersome .
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The end result was a delicious but rather cumbersome sandwich.
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We were surprised to find the saw so easy to control, as it seemed rather cumbersome at first.
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By now I was thinking that our simple request for shelter was turning into a rather cumbersome affair.
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As this model stands it is rather cumbersome even with the simplifying assumption of a constant required rate of return.
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It was too cumbersome to hang on a peg in the hall with the others.
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Although the success rate is high, about 22 percent of apnea sufferers find the mask too cumbersome and discontinue the therapy.
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This meeting could be too cumbersome to achieve anything.
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It would not be too cumbersome to give such machines explicitly, but I shall not bother to do this here.
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The tripod-mounted binoculars are too cumbersome and too powerful for this purpose.
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These administrative units are too cumbersome .
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Seen as potential rivals to his Dalek creations, Terry Nation's Mechonoids proved too cumbersome to move easily around the studios.
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It is a little too cumbersome to be charming, although that bassline becomes increasingly frightening.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I used to have one of those old sewing machines, but it was too cumbersome .
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Leroy bitterly opposed the plan for being cumbersome and costly.
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McMahon wore a cumbersome brace on his right leg.
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The room was dominated by an enormous, cumbersome leather armchair.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A shovel had been too slow and cumbersome .
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And they do away with cumbersome expense claims and time-consuming paperwork.
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The end result was a delicious but rather cumbersome sandwich.
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The engineers said their workplace was confining and their furniture was cumbersome .
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They went back to natural oestrogen, a cumbersome and expensive product, harvested from the urine of pregnant mares.
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Try dowsing without rods: it's much less cumbersome .