Sentence examples for it was once difficult from inspiring English sources

But it was once difficult to imagine city centres without the unifying presence of department stores.

Ms. Taylor said that it was once difficult to reconcile her commitment to yoga with her love of good food.

Sadly, if it was once difficult to conceive of people capable of such unfathomable cruelty, it is no longer.

Indeed, it was once difficult to imagine a state more hospitable to Mr. Bradley's campaign than New York.

SEEING Afghanistan from the air helps to explain why it was once difficult to conquer, and is today difficult to govern.

How much easier has technology made your more difficult relationships? From in-laws to hair stylists, when those with whom it was once difficult to communicate shift online, the shift in the ease of your relationship can be palpable.

And those tasks that were once difficult now seemed impossible.

That work, heard on Wednesday, was given a reading so fluid you would hardly have guessed that it was once considered brutally difficult.

Since this organism carries three functional oriCs whereas a single one is found in Thermoccocales, it is once again difficult to transpose replication features across archaeal phyla.

"It was difficult, but once I plunged in local student life, it was easier to cope with the distance".

We started out with a system we had to change and it was difficult, but once we could talk it through at half-time we thought it was better".