difficult task
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Since his release, he has sometimes found himself standing in his bedroom waiting for a prison officer to do a roll-call - a difficult habit to shake after nearly 40 years.
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2025
It seems to be a difficult habit to break.
From Salon • May 24, 2015
Secrecy is a difficult habit to shake off.
From Economist • Jan. 8, 2015
It’s a difficult habit to break since at every turn advertisements advocate “happiness from without” rather than the less profitable “happiness from within” approach.
From Time • Jul. 18, 2014
Thoroughness is the most difficult habit to acquire, but it is the pearl of great price, worth all the worry and trouble of the search.
From Modern Essays by Ayres, Harry Morgan
