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The experience was gruelling, far more so than I'd expected.

She knew tomorrow would be much more gruelling, but looked forward to it.

It seemed like a good idea to us, but made for an extremely gruelling day.

It's a gruelling ride that can take up to 20 hours.

Looking after him, and she had always been his nurse, was gruelling work for a woman of her age.

That they did so was the product of their form over the gruelling winter months.

And, a week after her gruelling ordeal, she was allowed home.

Both were panting as though they had run a gruelling race.

The team won the race after a gruelling effort lasting 104 days.

The tour lasted a gruelling three and a half months.

After 7 months of gruelling competition, the finals started in May.

This was an understandable reaction to the gruelling nature of the work.

Well, at least the most gruelling part of the journey is over with, he remarked.

An hour or so of these gruelling exhibits takes its toll.

And despite a sometimes gruelling schedule they would often go out in the evenings.

This was the start of the most gruelling week of my life.

A 114-116, 116-114, 116-112 decision was announced following a gruelling battle.

I visited Angola in 2008 and getting back out was a gruelling experience.

Obviously enough the worst hit in this gruelling situation were the poor of the village community.

She looked for all the world like a small child facing a gruelling visit to the dentist.

"It was a gruelling experience, but one I'll never forget.

The work was hard and gruelling, but everybody was used to it now.

We have been warned that this will be the most gruelling leg of our trip.

Over seven days, the teams covered a gruelling distance of more than 1,000 miles around the four nations.

The sum of all their labours over the last gruelling months.

But during most of the grueling process, the students were very serious.

Both of us know it's a grueling experience being out on the road.

It's great, after a grueling year on the road, to be back in his own bed.

Following up on the personal ads was a grueling job.

"They themselves have not yet come to terms with their grueling experiences," he said.

Williams did not talk about himself, but he played a grueling physical game.

In the meantime, this has been a grueling day for everyone.

After the long grueling day with the president, and then the American, he was ready for a drink or two himself.

People talked to me more easily and seemed to find the experience less grueling than they had at first.

The year's final major tournament may end up being the most grueling.

One of her most grueling matches recently was against an 8-year-old boy.

The 157-mile course was considered to be the most grueling ever at a world championship.

But even more grueling, they say, was the mental labor.

"This has been one of the more grueling weeks," May said.

And just what is the appeal of such a grueling competition?

The Italian league is probably the most grueling in the world.

No man has managed that total over the 10 grueling events.

Anybody involved with them worked under the most grueling of situations.

The first time it happened was two years ago in this same grueling tournament.

And, a grueling hour later, he came over himself, with everyone left aboard.

In the middle of a grueling playoff series, how effective can he be?

The hours are less grueling and more flexible than those of the first generation.

Next, he must be very sound to handle a grueling schedule.

Granted, their recent schedule has not been the most grueling.

What would be perhaps nine or ten minutes of air time had taken three grueling days to tape.