"It's always going to be hard at first because you're diverting away from something you've always done, " Smith said.
"It did take a bit of time to settle in, it was the first time I'd started to play regularly, at Chester I'd only ever played around 20 games a season so it was hard at first, " Rutherford added.
One familiar explanation is that young women push hard at first to forge a career, but then bump up against a glass ceiling kept in place by a combination of antique male attitudes and the complication of organising child care.
He's hard to spot at first among the jumble of multicolored fabric.
It made it a bit hard to read at first, but further along I think it really makes for great reading.
"There are cultural differences to work out, and it was hard for me at first (living in Guangzhou), very different, " she said.
Juggling the interests of so wide a range of groups within the ruling coalition is bound to be hard, especially at first.
The interior has been so sympathetically redecorated it's hard to believe at first that Max bought the house after it had been stripped of its contents.
Wilson is now hard at work on her first American television pilot, Super Fun Night, which she wrote, produces and is starring in.
Yarn Yoshi: The team that created Kirby's Epic Yarn is hard at work on the first console game to feature Yoshi as the main character since 1998's Yoshi's Story for Nintendo 64.
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More than 1, 500 names have been added to the wait list to purchase the Bia watch and the women are hard at work building the first ten prototypes with hopes of a Q1 2013 launch.
The private-sector soap companies and the government officials and health workers found it hard to understand each other at first.
The overall economic effects of the coming cuts will be hard to discern, at least at first.
Nadal won his first hard court title at the Montreal Masters earlier this month and hopes to improve on his two previous US Open appearances, when he lost in the second round.
At first it seems hard to believe.
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Mel Gibson's controversial new film, "The Passion of Christ, " which at first had a hard time finding a distributor, will be independently released on about 2, 000 screens in the United States next month, a Gibson spokesman said on Wednesday.
While earning a master's in computer science at the University of Portland she taught undergrad Saudi men, who at first had a hard time taking her seriously, but eventually succumbed to her intellect and the fear of her red pen.
By taking a good hard look at itself and going back to first principles, "Skyfall" pulls off something quite special.
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Nadal was hoping for his first victory at the hard court tournament and looking to improve his 13-5 winning record over Murray.
Parents expect that united front, she says, even though it may be a little hard for them to get used to at first.
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At first glance it is hard to argue with Volcker's solution.
But when we looked at the actual data (which are opaque at first sight and pretty hard to get), the price differences appeared huge: some paid 6 euros for a kilogram, others 8, and yet other 10 or even 12.
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Wales earned this Slam the hard way - by winning at Twickenham for the first time in 20 years and in Dublin for the first time in eight years.
And even though Aston Villa striker Emile Heskey rejected the chance to temporarily end his retirement from international football, the Bolton captain said it was hard to take the call-up seriously at first.
When I think of a handwritten edition of The Hobbit, my first thought is of dwarves hard at work at their desks, the sound of their pens scratching on paper echoing through the halls of Moria.
"At first she found it a bit hard, " Siefkes says of a dog-phobic colleague.
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