The phrase "a difficult business and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the challenges or complexities associated with a particular business or industry.
Example: "Starting a new company can be a difficult business and requires careful planning and execution."
Alternatives: "a challenging endeavor" or "a tough undertaking".
"It's a difficult business, and it's a difficult position.
Publishers are in a difficult business and, like any business, are accountable to their financial masters.
Maintaining their fiery hue is a difficult business, and it turns out that flamingos use cosmetic enhancements.
But certification of the origins of a diamond is a difficult business, and for that reason De Beers has not sold diamonds from Angola since October last year.
Investing is a difficult business and that's why most people under-perform the market.
Though Snell warns that it is a difficult business and not many companies do it well, she has both companies as a "buy".
"We are in a difficult business situation, and we know the only way to initiate change effectively is by working together," said Dieter Zetsche, a longtime Mercedes executive who became Chrysler's president last month.
"Expecting challenges in 2016 to maintain earnings due to a difficult business environment and slowing IT demand, the company will strive to improve performance in the second half, by capitalizing on strong seasonal demand for set business products and enhancing the product mix in components business," Samsung said in a statement.
But this is a painful, difficult business, and then Randy is offered a mouthwatering purse for a big rematch with his old enemy from the 80s glory days: the "Ayatollah".
KAUFMAN -- Forecasting is a very difficult business and is constrained by a whole series of aspects.
It's a very difficult business, and to build the clientele to allow you to provide the quality that Jiro does is not so easy.
