no easy/simple matter
noun
: something that is not easy to do
It's no easy/simple matter to find a decent place to live in this city.
Examples of no easy/simple matter in a Sentence
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Reviving the enforcement capability at the IRS was no simple matter.
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Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Being a Cro-Magnon Was Tough Cro-Magnons were early H. sapiens, and their survival was no easy matter.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
But achieving a high refresh rate is no simple matter.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2023
Of course, succeeding in Japan is itself no easy matter.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
Throwing the events was no simple matter and took almost three years to plan.
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2023
But rebuilding in Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11 was no simple matter, given the jigsaw puzzle of projects that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which had owned the World Trade Center, sought to piece together there.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
But rebuilding in lower Manhattan after Sept. 11 was no simple matter, given the jigsaw puzzle of projects that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which had owned the World Trade Center, sought to piece together there.
—Jane Margolies, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
This is no simple matter of Tua’s health deciding the future of the concussion protocol, or of the Miami Dolphins.
—The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Being a Cro-Magnon Was Tough Cro-Magnons were early H. sapiens, and their survival was no easy matter.
—Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 28 Dec. 2023
But achieving a high refresh rate is no simple matter.
—IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2023
Of course, succeeding in Japan is itself no easy matter.
—Billboard Japan, Billboard, 16 Aug. 2023
Throwing the events was no simple matter and took almost three years to plan.
—Adam Rathe, Town & Country, 23 Mar. 2023
But rebuilding in Lower Manhattan after Sept. 11 was no simple matter, given the jigsaw puzzle of projects that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which had owned the World Trade Center, sought to piece together there.
—Jane Margolies, New York Times, 24 Dec. 2022
But rebuilding in lower Manhattan after Sept. 11 was no simple matter, given the jigsaw puzzle of projects that the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which had owned the World Trade Center, sought to piece together there.
—Jane Margolies, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Dec. 2022
This is no simple matter of Tua’s health deciding the future of the concussion protocol, or of the Miami Dolphins.
—The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
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