Translation of "Schwer zu beschaffen" in English

As you know, some of this information is extremely difficult to obtain.

The Rhine gravel is also used for paving, but is hard to come by.

Information about national standards is difficult to obtain.

Mortgages in other Member States are difficult to obtain due to different concepts and languages;

Such materials are costly and may be hard to obtain.

There was disagreement as to whether information on rights and licensing agreements was difficult to obtain.

Exact or meaningful figures about Member States' expenditure on TEN are hard to come by.

I'm sorry they're rather hard to find, you know.

These offer specific, topic-related books that would otherwise be difficult to access for students.

Small amounts of this material are hard to procure, and it is thus rarely used.

Today it is very difficult to procure spare parts for the devices fitted originally, which are now decrepit.

Ammo is priceless in this new-look world and weapons can be hard to come by.

There is treasure in the alcove which may be difficult to get under these conditions.

These jobs are hard to come by without experience and the best qualifications.

Natural food is hardly to be supplied in the needed amount (mosquito larvae and hackled shrimps) .

Consideration was given to building "Oregon" of steel after the fisaco of the "City of Rome", but the new metal was still expensive and hard to obtain.

Although exact statistics are hard to come by, in 2003 approximately 35% of Baghdad’s population was Sunni.

Exact or meaningful figures for TSOs' total investments on trans-European energy networks projects are difficult to obtain, especially for projects for which no TEN-E funding has been requested.

According to the Portuguese authorities, it is difficult to obtain statistics on temporary work because of its triangular nature and because it is regarded as a new form of employment.

Statistical information on the progress of the fulfilment of the four Nice objectives is, by its nature, hard to acquire on a timely basis.

In most Member States start-ups have difficulty obtaining finance, especially during recessions.

This will be difficult without investment from outside, which will be hard to secure when the government wants to retain all land rights.

The possibility of creating a new database enabling the identification of 'rights' or 'licensing' agreements across the European Union was put forward. There was disagreement as to whether information on rights and licensing agreements was difficult to obtain.