Sentence examples for a small difficult from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a small difficult" is not correct in written English.
It seems to be an attempt to describe something that is both small and difficult, but the construction is awkward and unclear.
Example: "I encountered a small difficulty while trying to solve the puzzle."
Alternatives: "a minor challenge" or "a slight difficulty."

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Walt Disney took a small, difficult book – not yet a classic in the way that Winnie-the-Pooh or Peter Pan were when he got his hands on them – and he stripped it down to its component parts and reimagined.

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Is there still an audience for small, difficult films?

For instance, one study examined the time taken to reach for an object when it was to be subsequently placed on a large (easy condition) or small (difficult condition) target (Fabbri-Destro et al., 2009).

Like many women, Ms. Moynihan found the emotional tug of leaving a small child difficult, even though she knew that her husband was home.

Fidesz officials are hiding behind Hungarian, which is a small and difficult (yet beautiful) language, so that outsiders are at a disadvantage in responding to their assertions of "fact".

I feel more positive about this project and my work than I've felt in a long time," one programmer wrote after she'd completed a small but difficult task.

But search isn't as appropriate a tool on a small screen, difficult input device.

Site-level best practices tend to be clustered, making separation of these characteristics on a small sample difficult.

Duckpins, a smaller, more difficult game than conventional tenpin bowling, was invented in this delightfully eccentric city 96 years ago, most authorities say, and it spread like the Charleston or canasta as blue-collar recreation along the East Coast.

Precisely orienting such a small specimen is difficult, and therefore, a standard 1-in.

Simple operations provide a small energy boost; difficult operations give a larger boost.

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