1.   Ditching its shareholders is an equally daunting prospect.

2.   Excuses vary from difficulties in obtaining payment to the daunting prospect of completing export documentation.

3.   Five days of close assessment was a very daunting prospect.

4.   It is a daunting prospect and an outcome few people want.

5.   It is a pretty daunting prospect, being on stage for forty minutes.

6.   Starting the time-consuming process of interviewing childminders all over again was a daunting prospect.

7.   The extra cost of upgrading computers alone would be a daunting prospect for already over-stretched education budgets.

8.   Although conventional wisdom sees a long royal minority as the most daunting prospect any medieval state might face, in many respects a short minority posed more intractable problems.

9.   MEETING Volkswagen ad girl Paula Hamilton the top model famed for her volatile behaviour as well as her looks is a daunting prospect.