It was too heavy a burden to bear alone.

That would be too great a burden to bear.

"It means the burden too great to bear."

Here, as elsewhere, burden bears no necessary relation to cost.

He does not have the burden of ill health to bear, as did Raistlin.

The constraint of maintaining constant popularity is simply too large a burden to bear.

The guardsmen grunted as they saw the burden borne between the men.

Unbearable burdens that the world somehow does bear with a certain grace.

And they worry that the knowledge of future illness could be too great a burden for some children and parents to bear.

But there it is, your burden to bear, given to you because you are one of only a few who can shoulder it.