hard time
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhardandtime
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hard
adjective
uk/hɑːd/us/hɑːrd/
not easy to bend, cut, ...
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time
noun
uk/taɪm/us/taɪm/
the part of existence that is measured in minutes, days, years, etc., or this process considered as ...
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(Definition ofhardandtimefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofhard time
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The defensive mind has ahardtimerecognizing this inspiration as its own.
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They may have ahardtimekeeping their mind on any one thing at a time.
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That generation had ahardtimefor quite other reasons.
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Citizens whose livelihood depends on hard work generally have ahardtimein maintaining their self-respect.
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Industry gets an especiallyhardtimeof it, particularly if it is dirty industry.
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I had ahardtimefinding any referees.
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That is why they have ahardtimechoosing which world to create.
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I think it's also fair to say that most people would have ahardtimeexplaining exactly what the precise meaning is.
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Consequently, this theory will have ahardtimeaccounting for the sometimes diametrically opposed syntactic conditions that both types of foci can impose.
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An account of forgiveness that attempts to locate reasons for forgiving in the character of the wrongdoer51 will have a veryhardtimeapproving of anyone who forgives a torturer.
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This raises a very difficult question that egalitarians have ahardtimetackling, which is how to balance various aspects of fairness and efficiency.
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I have ahardtimeseeing how this account will do the requisite moral heavy lifting by itself.
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We should learn from their experience that the courts have had ahardtimein stretching that concept.
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It appears that the production system makes reliable use of a structure that the comprehension system views as ungrammatical and has ahardtimeunderstanding.
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The respondent was asked if his/her family ever had ahardtimemaking ends meet while growing up, approximating financial strain or childhood socio-economic status.
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Sharing of equipment appears to be a strategy used by producers who have ahardtimefinding monetary resources to buy their own.
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As previously mentioned, the model has ahardtimereproducing the dynamics of the nominal interest rate.
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These transcriptions often leave the readers confused, because they have ahardtimediscovering the original music.
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Some children may also have had ahardtimeunderstanding why, or believing that, the man with the clock ringing in his face did not wake up.
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