Sentence examples for really difficult year from inspiring English sources

"It has been a really difficult year and yes I apologise to shareholders," said Livingston, who took over from Ben Verwaayen less than a year ago.

The Force are down towards the bottom of the Super 15 log, the win-loss ratio is staring at Michael from the office wall and he has a game this weekend against the Waratahs, the side he left at the end of last season after a really difficult year.

"It has been a really difficult year for us.

Last year was a really difficult year, there's no hiding from it, but it's the amount you learn from it.

"I've had a really difficult year, but I've comeback, won in Poland in two weight categories last week and I'm here now so things are starting to look up".

"This is a really difficult year for families and we don't believe that adding any further to the council tax bill is going to be a good idea," she said following Thursday's meeting of the full council.

"If I look at some of the really difficult years I have had, it really puts it into perspective.

"They were really difficult years for me," Daley said.

The climate issue on the American scene has been really difficult for years and in many ways it is worse now than three or four years ago.

"It's been a really, really hard year – the most difficult year of my life – but at the same time I always try to take a positive from a negative and it's given me the kind of life experience that you can't buy, that it takes some people 10 years to gain.

Jens Larssen, who runs 8a, points out that when he set up the site 14 years ago, the top climbers would do perhaps ten really difficult climbs a year.