hard time
Example Sentences
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Suzuki congratulated the pitcher, shared the exclamation and — because this is what friends do — gave him a hard time.
From Los Angeles Times
"The issue is is that we have two nations that are having a hard time coming to a compromise."
From BBC
“There’s been a lot of hard times as of late, a lot of families that are not sure what comes next and I just want to uplift them,” Turner said.
From Los Angeles Times
Its downtown neighborhood has fallen on hard times, as banks and the great mining houses shifted offices to Sandton, the new business district.
It was a very hard time for a lot of us.
From Los Angeles Times
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