Definition of "harder"

For companies such as Trans Pennine Express, it will be even harder. It has the unwelcome claim to being Britain's worst train operator, with recent statistics from the Office of Rail and Road showing it cancelled nearly a quarter of its services in February, with lack of available train crew a real problem.

2023 April 5, Philip Haigh, “Comment: Pay deal a positive result”, in RAIL, number 980, page 3