| very | 8 | degree |
| increasingly | 4 | degree |
| to remove like many oe shields | 4 | other |
| hardware → be → hard | 32 |
| hardware → be → difficult | 23 |
| hardware → be → tough | 13 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.354 | 0.452 | 0.194 |
| Raw frequency | 68 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.723 |
| Modifier score | 1.000 |
| Perplexity | 45.307 |