21.  Baskin said the decision to close the stores was a difficult one, but he considers watching out for the employees to be a top priority.

22.  Begin with easy images and work your way up to the more difficult ones.

23.  Both genders find the road to re-employment a difficult one, which further complicates blending back into the families they left.

24.  ----- The last few years have been difficult ones for The New Republic.

25.  A long sentence, but not a difficult one.

26.  A very small gesture, but a very difficult one for him to make.

27.  Bush and McCain did not discuss when the reform should be debated in Congress, an issue that has become an increasingly difficult one.

28.  But a variety of practical and cultural barriers has made the task a difficult one.

29.  But for both Leacock and Larson, the season was a difficult one.

30.  But over and over again, the most common explanation for why people become clerics is the one most difficult to articulate.