The season had been a hard slog and he felt a break was in the player's interests.

But he adds that truly building the country up will be a hard slog over 10 or 20 years.

It will be a whole year of hard slog before you see their like again.if you're lucky!

I liked the ending; but it was a long hard slog to get there.

But the process turned into a long, hard slog.

If, however, you need outside support to get near 1550, meaningful academic work could be a hard slog.

It has been a hard slog to get the course into condition.

But that last fifteen per cent is going to be a hard slog.

The casual reader will find it all a pretty hard slog.

The next few days are going to be a long, hard slog.