21.   At least, we thought, the hard part was over.

22.   Because lobsters shed the hard parts of their bodies, there is nothing to judge age.

23.   Brokering an agreement, however, is the hard part.

24.   Building a consensus on how to solve that problem is the hard part, because it would most likely require more taxes or fewer benefits or both.

25.   But afterward you sort of forget the hard parts.

26.   But for Frazer himself, the beginning was not the hard part.

27.   But beyond an emotional return to his old, adopted home comes the hard part for Cone.

28.   But Kagan warned that the hard part for WorldCom and Ebbers is still ahead.

29.   But McNair and Patterson only thought the hard part was over when they had the stadium deal in hand.

30.   But now comes the hard part because all of these friends are not friends on the field.