This has been a hard winter for them, and a harder spring, so far.
And it's going to be the hardest winter, these men have ever seen.
Looks like it will be a hard winter over there.
In September 2003 she told me we were going to have a hard winter.
It's going to be a long, hard winter without him.
It had been a long, hard winter for all of them.
Spring came late to the mountains and this had been a hard winter, but it wouldn't be long now.
It's a good thing I don't need to know how hard winter is on a ship.
Then the warm summer was followed by a hard winter.
"If we have another long, hard winter then insurance companies will soon start to increase premiums."