Apple's competitors in the cloud space, notably Amazon and Google, had cruised along with few difficulties during those three years — essentially, sticking to the main road — but Apple was able to learn from its bad experience and recover. (thestar.com.my)
This is in line with recent Swedish findings that children living with both parents have fewer everyday difficulties than children in single care or living in joint physical custody arrangements; furthermore, children of parents with higher life satisfaction were found to experience fewer difficulties [33]. (journals.plos.org)
In matters relating to process, notably prompt access to sites, we have faced relatively few difficulties, and certainly much less than those that were faced by UNSCOM [U.N. Special Commission] in the period 1991 to 1998. (politics.stackexchange.com)