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It's slow and arduous and takes great concentration under the best of circumstances.

Bailey, who is also dating the director, said working on a Leigh production was incredibly arduous.

Even more striking are the courteous and collegial manners displayed, even during the arduous filibuster in the Senate.

Once the budget has been creatively handled, a director still faces the arduous task of casting.

The road to the Olympics is already long and arduous enough.

Indeed, 'we have laid upon him various arduous tasks touching the state of the country, and especially its tranquillity.'

But Samuel Adams, who thought "nothing should be despaired of," took upon himself the performance of this arduous task.

Sir Edward Bruce, after an arduous struggle, had taken a firm grip of Galloway by the end of 1308.

Nature seems still to wish to keep the young and blushing girl apart from that connection which entails grave and arduous duties.

Though Weston was more or less accustomed to the work, he found the first few hours sufficiently arduous.