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And I thought it must be hard for an old lady living by herself.

And it is hard to separate lip-service by companies from true commitment for the moment.

"For something this complicated, it's really hard to design products by focus groups," he once said.

At £1,800, it's hard to understand why so many people commute by car, train or bus.

It was exacting work, made all the harder by the shaking of her hands.

"Right now, it's hard, all by hand, basically what a person can pick up," he said of the clearing process.

All the more, since Dunaut is hard by his other flank.

The fort and dam were hard by the city walls.

"They've been hard by the volcano up there on the ridge."

I am a very poor warlock, who can but hear others' thoughts, and that only when they're hard by me.