laborious task
collocation in Englishmeaningsoflaboriousandtask
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laborious
adjective
uk/ləˈbɔː.ri.əs/us/ləˈbɔːr.i.əs/
needing a lot of time ...
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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition oflaboriousandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Breeding for perennial species is a time-consuming,laborioustask, and the release of suitable cultivars is still perhaps 25 years away.
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In the old days researchers had to do a manual search of a corpus to find instances of clefts, a verylaborioustask.
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That is alaborioustaskin which perhaps some false starts may be made.
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It would be alaborioustaskto extract this information from the original records.
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Clearly it would be an extremelylaborioustaskto amend the convention.
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It has been an extremely hard, long andlaborioustask.
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This would do away with the somewhatlaborioustaskof moving each individually at this late hour.
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I cannot undertake such a lengthy andlaborioustask.
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I certainly do not desire to take such alaborioustaskupon myself.
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We met them in the colony and saw them working at every kind oflaborioustask.
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It is a very long andlaborioustask.
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It is now engaged on the verylaborioustaskof answering the various technical questions we have put.
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The greatest care has been taken in the extremelylaborioustaskof co-ordinating and arranging the different sections.
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The collection and the analysis proved alaborioustask, as also was the careful and correct presentation of the report.
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However, it will be a long, difficult andlaborioustask, which will have to be done locally in response to local circumstances.
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That revaluation, with the revaluation of all other property, would be a difficult andlaborioustaskand would involve considerable delay.
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This is a verylaborioustask.
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It is a verylaborioustask.
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I do not mean to be abrasive about the people who had thelaborioustaskof drafting the notes on clauses, at what must have been astonishingly high speed.
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