Example sentences of "[art] tough time " in BNC.
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| 1 | What would you say is the toughest time after finishing drama school ? |
| 2 | Current affairs programmes will have a tougher time : if Thames wins back its franchise , it will probably continue to make This Week . |
| 3 | In the final , expecting a tougher time against Norfolk , they ran out 7–0 winners with Old Loughts ' Ian Barker and Krishnan both notching hat-tricks and Chelmsford 's Phil Benton adding the other . |
| 4 | There can hardly ever have been a tougher time to persuade banks to part with their money . |
| 5 | The Agriculture Minister , Mr John Gummer , and the Scottish Secretary , Mr Malcolm Rifkind , celebrated the small gains they had been able to negotiate , but admitted that the industry in Britain faced a tough time in the coming year . |
| 6 | ‘ We had a tough time in those days , ’ recalled Mrs Jones , ‘ the post war years were no party for anyone , and we were no exception . |
| 7 | Even Disney , the most successful studio of the late 1980s , has had a tough time launching Hollywood Pictures , the baby sister of its Touchstone studio . |
| 8 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 9 | ‘ Rainey put in some fast laps during the final stages of qualifying , so I was expecting him to give me a tough time , ’ said Doohan . |
| 10 | The problem seems to be that many women are having a tough time making their mark higher up the career ladder . |
| 11 | David 's been a really good friend to me , and he 's had a tough time because of it . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a tough time to launch something new . ’ |
| 13 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 14 | Similarly , an only child may have a tough time leaving home without the support of brothers and sisters . |
| 15 | Troops face a tough time from bandits and war lords . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , there is no word for hinge in Sesotho and Father George had a tough time trying to translate . |
| 17 | We are in for a tough time . ’ |
| 18 | Despite his having given her a tough time on set , Lysette is still very fond of Woody Allen : ‘ He gave me the courage to be brave . |
| 19 | ‘ I agree he 's a tough time ahead of him , yes . ’ |
| 20 | Too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't always see eye to eye , ’ Marler reflected , blowing smoke circles , ‘ Newman and I. But he 's had a tough time , I 'll give him that . ’ |
| 22 | Siemens AG has been having such a tough time in the former Soviet Union with its nuclear safety and telecommunications projects that it has been cutting back and recalling expatriates early ( CI No 2,043 ) , but Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG does have some work . |
| 23 | It had looked as if Robert Palmer was getting Digital Equipment Corp back onto an even keel , but now comes cause for great concern : too many companies decide that if the product is having a tough time in the market , the answer is to change the packaging , and DEC is tarting up its famous lower-case ‘ digital ’ logo , which has stood the company in excellent stead since 1957 ; the updated logo features ‘ a more contemporary typeface and slight modifications to the spacing of the design 's blocks ’ , and the white letters now appear on a burgundy background instead of the traditional blue — and we hope the company gets some very tough questioning at the annual meeting over the cost . |
| 24 | Though the money is being spent , local vendors are having a tough time coping with the increasingly erratic nature of demand and worsening financial instability . |
| 25 | Compaq figures NT will have a tough time on the server , so its server policy will either be in NetWare or SCO , sticking with the latter at least in the short term . |
| 26 | ‘ It looks as though we 're in for a tough time ! ’ |
| 27 | If we four were representatives of our platoon , it was understandable that the staff were having a tough time of it , pretending that we were all the same — physically , socially and morally . |
| 28 | The other dealers then had a tough time explaining his absence to his erstwhile clients , but one or two told the truth . |
| 29 | Paul was having a tough time himself supervising the contouring of the land around the three-tier pool Stephen had eventually commissioned . |
| 30 | In the locker room the steel grilles are pasted with letters that say , Thanks for your kindness for making a tough time much easier to bear , and , If it was n't for all of you there at the hospital I do n't know how we would have survived . |