It had been a hard year, with our girls transitioning to middle school.
"The last year was a hard year and maybe the decision to bring Terry Venables in didn't do me any favours, " Robson recalled.
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Our friendship changed after our first, hard year of business, and, although we tried to rebuild, we never really recovered.
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But even if Mr Cardoso succeeds in making fiscal austerity stick, Brazil is clearly facing a hard year in 1999.
"It's been a long, hard year for me, " Pryce told Wigan's website.
Stryker is also a major provider of medical and surgical supplies, and its MedSurge segment got socked particularly hard last year as hard-pressed hospitals and other health care providers trimmed their spending.
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Candidates who hit the high-tax issue hard next year will reap rich electoral rewards.
The industry is hitting the promotional pedal hard this year in an attempt to jump-start online sales.
The region was hit hard last year by a slumping housing market and a high unemployment rate.
But even this proved too hard last year, when inflation was around four percentage points higher than growth.
London-oriented Thistle was hit hard last year: a Malaysian tycoon seized the chance to bid for it, and won.
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"I worked very hard last year, I was tired and wanted a change of scenery, " he told the BBC's Breakfast with Frost.
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We work hard all year round, we believe in working with others.
Jim Collins ' OTC Insight model portfolios gained an average of 9.8% last month, after getting whacked hard last year--down 39.8%, according to the Hulbert Financial Digest.
Luckily, with the factory came a stack of Trabi spare parts, which Sachsenring sold at a huge mark-up in order to bring in cash during a hard first year.
We've got to push hard this year so that we are once again the leaders in solar and wind and high-efficiency batteries that can lead to the plug-in automobiles of the future.
The holidays are particularly hard every year.
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"We know the first year is going to be hard and the second year will be tough because we've got to see people coming back again, " she said.
Last year, it was hard for her 24-year-old brother, who has worked for Target since high school, to relax knowing he had to be at work, she said in an interview with sister network HLN.
San Antonio's mojo has taken some hard hits this year, what with the Walt Disney Co.
That's why we've worked so hard throughout this year to invite as many people as possible to events here at the White House.
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The economic downturn has hit this year hard, though, with several countries having to pull out of the event because they could not afford to take part.
On Friday, one of the biggest investment banks in the world said that China was not heading for a hard landing this year and would average 8.1% GDP growth in 2012.
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You know, we've got a lot of farmers in the Midwest in the high plains who are really going to have a hard time this year, because in Asia, where the countries have had difficult economic problems, they can't afford to buy our food anymore.
One of the reasons why he fought so hard both last year and this year to have a payroll tax cut for 160 million Americans is so that that extra money could be in the pockets of everyday Americans and enable them to deal with the expense caused by higher gas prices.
If the Durham team's figures are used to adjust grades, the real value of newly minted A-levels has fallen a little compared with their face value every year since 2003, as slightly more students choose easier subjects over hard ones than did the year before.
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