Sometimes this meant working in a part-time job, taking on major chores at home or being intensely involved with a school club or team.

And still it had been a major chore getting it down five courses of stairs.

"Putting up" fruits and vegetables was once a major chore.

Opening the door was a major chore, compounded by the fact that I wanted to do it quietly.

But creating a detailed inventory of everything you own need not be a major chore when technology comes to the rescue.

Mundane activities like pulling on pants are still a major chore.

Gardening was another one of the major chores of frontier women, because the families relied on these gardens to get them through the winter.

"They see it as a major chore, and this makes it easier," he said.

Climbing from last place to fifth in the Big East could be a major chore.

To find and get to her were hardly major chores, but few people wandered in accidentally.