While shaping describes a mechanism which could theoretically account for numerous changes in a child's language, Skinner acknowledges that it is a somewhat laborious and inefficient way of learning.

But it was a somewhat laborious process to carry out even so simple a plan as to walk to one of the smaller pastures beyond the royal barns.

Regular handpicking and crushing of eggs, larvae and adults is effective if somewhat laborious (adults can be drowned in soapy water if crushing is considered too violent).

The pandanus abounded everywhere; its nuts, though somewhat laborious to extract, were rich, tasty, and nourishing.

However, we discovered that channels that require connecting to an online account require the somewhat laborious process (described below) to be repeated for each device separately.

The kana are converted to kanji later, a somewhat laborious process.

It is not difficult, though somewhat laborious, to prove that these three definitions are equivalent.

The Committee on the Environment agreed on that unanimously, after the vote had, indeed, been deferred twice by reason of the somewhat laborious discussion.

Finally, I hope that we will also be able to improve transparency and the integration of Parliament's role in the future project, because it has been somewhat laborious to arrive at our position in this debate.

Her somewhat laborious sentences too-obviously learned off by heart for the occasion-detracted if anything from the interest of what she had to convey.