31.   The lower prices and weakening demand could mean a hard winter for Houstonians in the natural gas business.

32.   There is ample food to carry geese through hard winters, meaning more adults returning to the breeding grounds each spring.

33.   The wheat affected was the hard red winter variety, used to make bread and the leading U.S. wheat export.

34.   These were bock beers, stronger brews served as the hard winter of Northern Europe was yielding reluctantly to spring.

35.   They know the terrain best, but they are poorly clothed for hard winter and generally unenthusiastic about their mission.

36.   This has been a hard winter for them, and a harder spring, so far.

37.   Those that overwinter in plant material do just fine in hard winters, he said.

38.   Think of your set as an electronic version of a woolly caterpillar, portending a hard winter.

39.   This hard line on reckless skiing comes after a hard winter in Colorado.

40.   A variety called Meadowlark is described as a boon to Northern gardeners to combat hard winters that sometimes reduce flowering.