Being your own four men team with no others to keep you going when it gets hard.

"It's good to know you have a family trade to fall back on if times get hard."

It gets hard to tell exactly how far she is from the surface.

Yet for those at the low end, just buying enough food is getting hard.

And when that happens, I get hard to live with.

It gets hard to sleep because there's nothing to hear.

How the hell could he get hard again, this fast?

Every moment she sat here the walk got longer and the job harder.

The problems get harder from the first question to the last.

If times got hard, he would help you - with money, medicine, a word in the right place.