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Discover LudwigThe phrase "once difficult" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to something that was difficult in the past, but is now easier or much less difficult. For example, "English was once difficult for me to learn, but now I speak it fluently."
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Then would come another mighty rip, and what was once difficult would now be impossible.
But it was once difficult to imagine city centres without the unifying presence of department stores.
Both games have streamlined the once difficult and often confusing process of playing online.
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.
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Accessibility is fine; but, in making once-difficult art available to a wider audience, we also need to honour its integrity and respect its uncompromising values.
"Forms that were once extremely difficult or even impossible to make are now easily realized".
(The Daily Express, 2009) The truth: It is, for once, proving difficult to disagree with the Express.
Doing all of this at once is difficult with current technology or any foreseeable technology.
They mastered things, too, that once appeared difficult, like the subway.
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