painstaking

The new book took him more than five years of painstaking work.

They were on the job, doing work that is painstaking but important.

He was a painstaking man, without making any great issue of it.

Until just recently, law students had to learn a painstaking process to look up cases by hand.

The process took four, painstaking years; from 1917 to 1921.

It's a painstaking process and it takes the better part of a day.

It is a painstaking process that will take about three years.

There should have been a painstaking investigation, even after the fact.

He was especially painstaking in his choice of hand weapons.

It is painstaking work but fun of a serious sort.

In the early years this was slow and painstaking work.

There was painstaking work done on our proposed bill for many months.

Getting a project off the ground, however, can prove to be a painstaking process.

But it's a painstaking process, and they must apply by May 4.

But it is still a painstaking process, and must be done well in advance of play.

It was painstaking stuff given the fact that I'd turned up absolutely nothing.

This was no time for a painstaking job of packing.

That will be the longest, most painstaking part of the test.

And what role do the facts play in this painstaking analysis?

But such a painstaking education job, in the view of many Democrats, is unlikely with the public at large.

Later, the Americans wished a more painstaking investigation had been made.

"It's the result of painstaking Soviet work in the area."

Hence, the painstaking research into the reality of the show.

The painstaking process of selecting the jury could take weeks.

And in the end, I would teach him to talk, one slow, painstaking word at a time.