That is a laborious, quarrelsome business.

He kicked off his sandals and floated over to the navigation panel to begin the laborious business of setting a new course.

All this must have been in train for some time, since getting even a jolly-boat over the side was a laborious business.

Tracking and destroying computer viruses is a laborious and exacting business, antivirus engineers say.

Then he could sleep through the drive and the laborious business of make-up.

This was a laborious business and while they were about it the dhow wallowed helplessly.

That is a laborious business and far less appealing that the work on the forthcoming Budget year.

Writing, for him, was a slow, laborious business that left the pages blotted, sweat-stained, and crumpled, and the writer himself in no better case.

To walk at all was a laborious business; the foot sank and slid, the boots were cut to pieces, among sharp, uneven, rolling stones.

So they got down to the laborious business of asking questions, of cross- checking the answers they could not trust, against pre- vious results.