Well, obviously Florida and California are two states where one can ride 12 months a year but for motorcyclists in less temperate climes it can be hard hanging up your helmet until the vernal equinox.

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Science has given us many vital benefits, so many that they would be hard to sum up.

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Leading-edge boomers are also nearing retirement, which means their substantial portfolio losses will be hard to make up.

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It can be hard to pass up a dinner out or a concert when all your friends are going.

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There are certainly many answers to this question, and it will be hard to come up with the best one.

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It would be hard to come up with a symbol to flash around Northern Ireland that was more politically incorrect.

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For a sport that can hardly be described as hard up, this seems unusually generous, says the report's author, Keith Boyfield.

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Aside from being the source of a delightfully distracting kind of strife that would be hard to give up, love triangles can conclude catastrophically.

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Their substantial portfolio losses will be hard to make up.

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This spending pace, too, will be hard to keep up.

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The MCofS's safety adviser said patches of snow that survive into late spring and early summer tended to be hard and high up on sheltered, northern slopes of mountains.

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Any training camps necessary to support terrorists who might deploy here to the United States will be hard to start up under the growing magnifying glass that the world community seems to be interested in developing.

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It would be hard to come up with an event more likely than the current mess in the Gulf to get people to focus on the coming crunch experts are predicting in the availability of oil.

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But if it is simply bolted on to add transactional friction to prevent churn (through recurring billing), it will be hard to lined up the rest of the business model to address the other issues previously mentioned.

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It can be hard to measure up.

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Unless Mr Blix faces new obstructions by Iraq or uncovers more evidence of illegal arms, it may be hard to come up with a form of wording that is acceptable to many of the countries that have spoken out against war.

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Both Amazon and Apple will be hard at work setting up their own music streaming services.

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All of this has been great for a short-term pop, but it will be hard to keep this up.

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In the years ahead, investors will be hard pressed to keep up with inflation in these assets, let alone achieve a positive real return or meet their financial goals.

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It will be very hard to catch up.

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It may be hard to see close up.

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It's said that the hardware will be doled out to staff and volunteers helping to get the Games in order, giving them something to do with their leisure hours (we suppose) as they put the finishing touches on the many event venues spotting the city, and presumably, China will be working hard to play up its technological achievement come game time later this year.

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It can be hard for science to live up to the imaginations of science-fiction writers.

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If Hialeah seceded, he says, it would be hard-pressed to come up with the money to build its own county infrastructure.

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However, both Amazon and Apple are so far ahead that it will be hard for Microsoft to catch up in spite of the purchase.

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I'm not sure how much different my life would be right now without it, but it would be very hard to give it up.

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Moving up can be hard when there is no corporate ladder.

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Politically, however, it will be a hard act to keep up.

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But the assured tall tales being told at dinner parties across Manhattan are fantasies of propaganda that can not be backed up by the hard gritty facts.

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Against such a record, it would be hard for any successor to match up.

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