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Although exact numbers are hard to come by, Worrall is one of a growing number of pet owners who pose as their animals on social networks.

Other opportunities to see the total phase of this eclipse of the Sun were also hard to come by.

This type of money is hard to come by and can be very fickle in its affections.

The Save: Clean slates are hard to come by, but with a little professional help Gibbo could get a bit of a leg-up.

The two wingers would switch sides halfway through the first period but possession in and around the penalty area was hard to come by.

More than 20 ventures are currently in existence and although financial information is hard to come by, they seem to be doing well.

But now consumer budgets are being squeezed at a time when unemployment is still high and wage rises are hard to come by.

Luck is hard to come by but easy to sell in poverty-stricken Tongxin, in northwestern China.

"Financing is extremely hard to come by and many businesses can't get help through the banks, " she said.

With confidence shattered and credit hard to come by, deals have dried up in most industries. But not in pharmaceuticals.

Justin: I just hope you know which side your bread is buttered on. Nowadays, good jobs are hard to come by.

Good friends are really hard to come by, if you have this friendship should not easy to damage it.

This was the golden age for pitchers, and home runs were hard to come by against throwers like Cy Young and Walter Johnson.

Compromise is always hard to come by in Washington, but the Tea Party representatives' arrival in town made things worse.

With unsold goods piling up and finance hard to come by, firms around the world have slashed production even faster than demand has fallen.

Whilst precise numbers are hard to come by, the ECFR says it estimates up to 25 percent of China's reserves may now be euro denominated.

This new conservatism is not solely motivated by the fact that cash is hard to come by; demand is also falling for most firms' products.

Ladies Market is in a condition few other tourist attractions are in. It is hard to come by and should be cherished.

Many former users of synthetic sweeteners have turned to natural methods, but have found that information is still hard to come by.

But with rational explanations hard to come by, investors should stop short of making big moves out of equities, Mr. Stovall says.

THE BOOZE - Alcohol is very hard to come by. Fans will have to work hard for a pre-match pint. Hardly a relaxing environment.

This is often around 8%, and reflects the performance of the past 20-30 years. However, such returns will be hard to come by in future.

Violet light is hard to come by though, especially at night, when glowing leaves would be useful to drivers and pedestrians.

In Latin America many young entrepreneurs operate in an informal economy where innovation is rare and capital hard to come by.

Envelopes were very hard to come by during the war, so people folded their letters up instead.

Hundreds are now thought to have died in the post-election violence, though authoritative figures are hard to come by.

"That kind of growth, in a fiercely competitive market, is hard to come by, " says Tim Dunne at Automotive Resources Asia.

But financing for mega-deals worth $30 billion-40 billion will be hard to come by, at least for leveraged buyers, he predicts.

Visas for foreign journalists are hard to come by; entering Deraa, except in rare cases with an official minder, has been impossible.

The dictionary was then out of print and was hard to come by.

Liang played steady golf today but birdies were hard to come by as he only made three.

But there's a problem: scientific research on race is hard to come by, and it's not difficult to see why.

With finance hard to come by, how the US uses the $2bn of stimulus money set aside for advanced battery makers could shape the industry.

In his creations, be they mediocre or weird, concrete notions and styles are very hard to come by.

But in the dusty, dry areas of a rocky south African desert, bogs and lakes are hard to come by.

For small businesses in particular, data on R& D spending is hard to come by, partly because different countries track it differently.

That's hard to come by in a world where bank loans are scarce and cash savings are at risk from inflation and theft.

Firm numbers are hard to come by; as European Union (EU) citizens, the French can move to Britain without registering with any authority.

The middle has been hollowed out, on-the-job training is rare and good posts hard to come by.

Consumer internet traffic: Data guzzlers | The Economist RELIABLE data about internet traffic is hard to come by.

And with financing hard to come by, fewer deals are getting done.

Such a universal genius is hard to come by.

When their usual diet of nuts, seeds, fruits and fungi is hard to come by, grey squirrels strip the bark off beech and sycamore trees.

There are a fair number of former servicemen in prison, too, though accurate figures are hard to come by.

Aside from some fast-food joints and wallet-straining restaurants at five-star hotels, foreign cuisine was hard to come by.

With global exchange consolidation well advanced, juicy opportunities are hard to come by these days.

Slot machines were also hard to come by, and the two large video roulette theaters were overflowing with gamblers.

For those seeking a mortgage, credit is still hard to come by.

Practice were strict self-discipline, can not afford a little evil thoughts, could this be said to have been hard to come by.

Statistics about the incidence of real criminal activity against and among children are hard to come by and hard to interpret.

I often hanker after a little peace and respite from confusion, but it is really hard to come by.

Real-time search is still new, and information about it is hard to come by.

are hard to come by on the internet since lighting is less glamorous than other areas of home decorating.

Specific on the H. 263 codec introduced here on the fact the bar, here are hard to come by testing program source code!

But the realities of regulatory restriction and rampant piracy mean profits remain hard to come by.

Statistics are hard to come by since bans are issued by the country's opaque security agencies.

The darkness confers measures of privacy and freedom as hard to come by in North Korea as electricity.

and leveraging the school's resources, Mr. Laurino found interviews were hard to come by during the on- campus recruiting season.

I don't know if you're aware of this, but these honorary degrees are apparently pretty hard to come by.

Yet success in the world's biggest telecom market, the U. S. , has been hard to come by.

Unfortunately , alternatives to bombing the North Vietnam were hard to come by.

However, policy prescriptions for dealing with the impact of bad jobs are hard to come by.

Detroit is broke, and federal funds are hard to come by too these days, so where will the funds come from?

But exact numbers are hard to come by, not least because of the continued rapid growth in the global number of subscribers.

Solid information on this subject's history is, regrettably, still hard to come by.

The town remains largely blue-collar, but manufacturing jobs are hard to come by.

In a lot of places in Asia, ATM machines are hard to come by and may not accept all ATM cards.

"The numbers are hard to come by, " he says. "But we think domestic abuse has gone down. "

We didn't know then that the restaurant, La Toque, was pretty famous and reservations were hard to come by.

Building materials are hard to come by since no paved roads reach Juba and there are few original buildings.

We've had our ups and downs , but friends are hard to come by, so we'll be best friends forever .

For obvious reasons, statistics on the informal economy are hard to come by.

"Buying interest is huge, there is little resistance to the rise and sellers are hard to come by, " said one broker.

We want to be happy, but we think it should be earned or deserved or hard to come by.

Elephants are hard to come by in New York. Large motor vehicles are not.

And, on Afghanistan's heroin highway to Europe, guns are never hard to come by.

Tao children, this opportunity is hard to come by, why should we abandon it?

But even menial temp jobs-such as working in the basement of Sports Illustrated, bar-coding old photo negatives-have been hard to come by.

Figures are hard to come by, but in rich countries women typically hold 30-40% of senior managerial posts in central government.

Given all the hype, one might think that such a definition wouldn't be hard to come by.

Though accurate figures are hard to come by, Liberia's unemployment rate is believed to top 80 percent.

September 1511 - Detail about the conflict is hard to come by after September, as many of the records were either lost, stolen or destroyed.

With rents high and jobs hard to come by, it's no surprise that people are doubling up.

Luke settled quickly, scoring on his debut, but playing time in recent weeks has been hard to come by.

A good job that you enjoy doing is hard to come by.

Since arriving in north London in 2007 Merida has found first-team opportunities hard to come by.

Since it is largely unregulated, reliable statistics are hard to come by.

But scientists and engineers in the discipline are hard to come by.

B. During World War II nylon stockings were very dear and hard to come by .

But they need a special quota to buy Chinese stocks in Shanghai or Shenzhen, and that quota is hard to come by.

Start stockpiling tampons as they are hard to come by.

However, criticism is not hard to come by.

Raises are hard to come by and new hires may feel they have less negotiating power.

Data on loans in the informal financial sector are hard to come by.

Volunteers have been hard to come by.

RELIABLE data about internet traffic is hard to come by.

It's good to be here so hard to come by.

The department store lost out because loans were very hard to come by and it could not start business on time.

And in the crowded market for midrange smartphones, into which the Chinese vendors are moving rapidly, differentiation is hard to come by.

The answers are hard to come by because the behavior emanates from somewhere deep inside The Big Shaggy.

Precise figures on the economy are hard to come by.

Now your type are very hard to come by.

The best things are hard to come by.

Things that are hard to come by are rare.

Solid data about the blogosphere are hard to come by.

There are roughly 4, 000 of them (precise numbers are hard to come by) working everywhere from giant multinationals to tiny family firms.

Statistics on how many women have traded boyfriends and husbands for girlfriends are hard to come by.

Slot machines were also hard to come by.

Full marks are hard to come by ; you must make painstaking efforts .

A friend from Washington, D. C. just told me he is thinking of moving back to Beijing, because jobs are hard to come by.

Good jobs are hard to come by in small towns.

If you find it too hard to come by, create one.

Good spaces are hard to come by and it could take years to get them.

But good jobs are hard to come by in the Delta.

A good assistant is hard to come by.

Money is hard to come by nowadays.

However, proof is hard to come by.

Another worry is that outside funding is hard to come by for all banks, including Bankia.

Statistics on this are hard to come by, but the best guess is that between 1955 and 1971 some 9m Italians migrated within their own country.

But this is pure speculation and concert information is hard to come by.

Deals are still hard to come by.

General (free) support is very hard to come by.

Statistics on postnups are hard to come by.

In 1955, it's a little hard to come by.

This stamp is hard to come by .

They're really hard to come by.

Love and trust is very hard to come by in this day and time.

It means hard to come by or rare.

That book is hard to come by.

The idiom "bu ke duo de" means that some one or something is very rare and hard to come by.

The petrolem is hard to come by it and the last.

Accurate information about the spill is hard to come by, but what we know of the picture is pretty grim.

Salary comparatives are hard to come by in China.

Unfortunately, in China, husbands are hard to come by for such women in their late 20s and early 30s.

A good job like that is hard to come by.

Buddy: A friend like that is hard to come by. Are you still close?

compassion and forgiveness are hard to come by

Agreement between countries is hard to come by

When good love is so hard to come by

happiness is hard to come by

bad b-tches like me, is hard to come by