1.   But Bradley, whom the Mavericks are counting on for defensive production, believes reaching the century mark will be a difficult chore in the playoffs.

2.   But IBM and others continued on, developing models that could tackle difficult chores at a price that made sense for businesses to consider trying parallel processing.

3.   None of these is a particularly difficult chore.

4.   Rooting out Taliban fighters or even al-Qaida Arabs from the welter that is Quetta could prove a difficult chore.

5.   The most difficult chore here is deciding where to start picking his theories apart.

6.   The United States also faces a more difficult chore in getting from here to there.

7.   The young player who probably has the most difficult chore is Kidd.

8.   Winning all four is a very, very difficult chore.

9.   Advancing to the second round would be a difficult chore, with the United States facing co-host South Korea and Poland after Portugal.

10.   Clarity of emotion is a difficult chore to perform when the prose revels in mystery and obfuscation.