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The phrase "are difficult to determine" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing something that is challenging to identify or assess, often in contexts like research, analysis, or decision-making.
Example: "The exact causes of the phenomenon are difficult to determine without further investigation."
Alternatives: "are hard to ascertain" or "are challenging to identify."
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The answers are difficult to determine.
The reasons for that are difficult to determine.
The programs are so secret that their spending and effectiveness are difficult to determine.
The motives of the terrorists are difficult to determine at this stage.
These input parameters are difficult to determine experimentally, and their choice may be controversial.
When one looks at the faces of the people in these photographs, their gender and age are difficult to determine.
The nature and extent of other contemporary forms of literate activity are difficult to determine with confidence.
Courts will generally uphold reasonable liquidated damages when actual damages are difficult to determine, as is often the case.
The physical properties of carbonaceous aerosol particles are often of interest but are difficult to determine from a single measurement.
Public policy measures to prevent this, and the clinical significance of this change are difficult to determine; historically scarlet fever is a disease of deprivation, tamed by antibiotics.
Exact numbers are difficult to determine; what is certain is that those who leave often face tremendous emotional and practical difficulties.
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