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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a rather difficult time" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a challenging or tough period someone is experiencing.
Example: "After losing his job, he had a rather difficult time adjusting to his new circumstances."
Alternatives: "a quite challenging time" or "a somewhat tough time."
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"My parents had a rather difficult time with it, especially my mother, which is strange if you think about it because it's not her name," Ms. Flink said.
A Bindmans lawyer sympathised with him for having "a rather difficult time" at the station as he had been held in custody for more than six hours.
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But we have to make an effort in the United States; we have to make an effort to understand, to go beyond these rather difficult times.
According to Staten, among the elements that did not make it to the finished game was a "horrible scene of betrayal" where Miranda Keyes straps a bomb to the Master Chief's back and throws him into a hole; "Jason was going through a rather difficult breakup at the time and I think that had something to do with it," he said.
In addition, several valuable benefits are expected including reduction of the process time, suppression of a rather difficult sampling and tedious off-line analyses.
This is a rather difficult theory.
Confirmation theory has proven a rather difficult endeavour.
This mix makes for a rather difficult text.
"The whole of this book has been dictated at the American Hospital at Neuilly, where I am still having rather a difficult time," he wrote in the introduction, a year after the journey.
Because it would have been rather difficult and time consuming to extract data from hundreds of hospitals that did not have the same software for data collection, we had to develop specific software to extract the primary data.
There was a school of thought that, simply by entering into government at a difficult time, rather than sitting back and relishing the luxury — and the untested ideals — of perpetual opposition, the Lib Dems had shown an unwonted strain of courage.
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