Over the years of hard effort, he was able to accumulate real estates and other small investments.

After long, hard effort, she at last managed to drag the weighty thing onto level ground.

"It's been a long and hard effort - but a productive one," he said.

It is rather difficult to work in a medium that requires both hard effort and ingenuity.

One to give away things, which oneself earned through hard effort might know an easy task.

"I trust that the situation will be much improved following a period of hard efforts," he said.

When you can cope with one minute of hard effort, increase it to two or three minutes.

I wanted to establish this series on my own hard effort.

After a full day of hard effort they rose above the clouds into the cold, crisp atmosphere.

Many things are in fact immensely better, as a result of hard human effort.