The phrase "a difficult prospect" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing a situation or outcome that is challenging or unlikely to succeed.
Example: "Starting a new business in a saturated market can be a difficult prospect for many entrepreneurs."
Alternatives: "a challenging situation" or "a tough challenge".
"It's a difficult prospect but it's better than no prospect".
Achieving this is obviously a difficult prospect, as Pakistan's history attests.
The numbers raise the possibility of reintroductions if habitats can be found, a difficult prospect because of China's large population.
Undercutting the core business remains a difficult prospect for most companies to contemplate, and that's what made the retailer's move headline-worthy in the first place.
However, doing this at a time of commissioning budget restrictions is a difficult prospect and we need to consider alternative approaches.
It would have to renegotiate with the bank, go to court or drop the case — a difficult prospect given the wide political interest in the case.
For many street vendors, understanding the regulations that govern their trade is "a really difficult prospect," said Rosten Woo, executive director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, a nonprofit design and research organization in Gowanus, Brooklyn.
The two northern islands of Thassos and Samothrace are a more difficult prospect.
"It's primarily their ability to reject the leases and leave the lessors sitting there with fairly expensive airplanes and a fairly difficult prospect of releasing them in the near future".
At the end she is still struggling with what she wants, or the idea of wanting it, and also, perhaps a more difficult prospect, still figuring out how to know when the thing before her, which may resemble what she wants, is really it.
In fact, for those who have been looking for work for 27 weeks or more, finding work appears to have become a more difficult prospect.
