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Once a tree felling permit is obtained, it will be next to impossible to control how much timber will be cut, he said.

Of course, it's next to impossible to make it through the summer without a bite or two.

A good man might be hard to find, but a good hairdresser is next to impossible .

It was next to impossible that in a month the grass would be green and flower would be blooming.

To come close to understanding the intricacies of the disaster without diagrams is next to impossible.

I've thought about the last one and decided the learning-how-to-ask part is next to impossible.

Barring a legislative miracle, it looks next to impossible for him to push these bills to the finishing line.

That would have been next to impossible to animate with a traditional Aardman puppet.

"It turns out to be next to impossible to debug software, " Calo says.

Now, when the Web is so densely populated with sites, it is next to impossible to achieve constant top ratings for a one-word search string.

Getting out of the cycle of dependency is next to impossible for many Filipinos.

For that reason, Americans would find it next to impossible to live without an oven.

It is next to impossible to read in a place like this.

Despite having published a book and written for national magazines, finding full-time work as a writer has been next to impossible.

Government-backed hacking efforts are a different story -- they have much more funding, but can still be next to impossible to trace.

It is next to impossible that he should keep his marriage a secret from his parents.

That makes it next to impossible for security agencies to spy on those messages without RIM's cooperation.

Even silencing the muzzle blast to a mere "fut" is next to impossible.

Doing this proved next to impossible without a ladder.

It is next to impossible to see Tom today.

These relationships can be next to impossible to mend after the trust is broken, even when both parties want to reconcile.

New user agent strings come out almost daily, so keeping the UA list current is next to impossible.

But Joy Chilson Foy had not been to Africa and her chances of getting the disease at home are next to impossible.

Finding molasses, they learned, is next to impossible.

Readers now have more sites than ever to keep up with, and visiting all of them on a regular basis is next to impossible.

In stocks like these, it is next to impossible for an outsider to find an edge.

However, it's next to impossible to write out a word with abstract meaning pictorially .

If this is the case, then you will find that you find it next to impossible to be happy in your life.

But if he doesn't know what he's doing, that may seem next to impossible. . .

It was thought next to impossible.

This 105% increase in the error rate is statistically next to impossible to happen.

No, sorry, most utensils and tools are still next to impossible to use.

It was next to impossible to drive in the rush hour in this area.

It is next to impossible to find anyone who knows the real teaching of the Buddha among contemporary Buddhist monks.

It's next to impossible with the given time frame.

Getting them to buy into the system is next to impossible.

It can be done, but in this political atmosphere, I fear that it is next to impossible to be achieved.

But our eyes locked. We connected, which is next to impossible in this world.

In Markov's case, the umbrella contained a ricin pellet, which is next to impossible to trace.

"To get land, say 10, 000 hectares of land at one place, whichever be the state, is next to impossible, it's not available, " noted Kapoor.

It's next to impossible to drive in this traffic.

It is next to impossible to cure her illness.

Didn't he know that it was next to impossible to find that particular antique?