11.   For me, it meant to step on the flag, then to think long and hard about it.

12.   I quieted my queasy stomach and thought long and hard about a new strategy.

13.   I would have to think long and hard about it.

14.   It eases the debt burden, it encourages them to think hard about it in a way that makes it feel prestigious.

15.   Just last week, she asked them what was hard about first grade.

16.   Keith Askins fouled Paul Pierce hard at about the same time Terry Porter began jawing with Vitaly Potapenko.

17.   Jerry Colangelo should be thinking long and hard about the next five years in the life of Riley.

18.   Q. My husband and I have just begun thinking hard about retirement.

19.   So what was hard about the pop quiz?

20.   Steven Syverson, dean of admissions at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wis., said he found out the hard way about the scope of the disabilities law.