| a lot | 17 | degree |
| much | 9 | degree |
| in an area | 8 | location |
| life → be → tougher | 56 |
| life → get → tougher | 44 |
| life → become → tougher | 12 |
| life → be getting → tougher | 4 |
| life → seem → tougher | 3 |
| negative | neutral | positive |
| 0.504 | 0.332 | 0.164 |
| Raw frequency | 119 |
| Normalized frequency | 0.461 |
| Modifier score | 1.000 |
| Perplexity | 179.874 |