(1) As my husband points out, teaching is a grueling , challenging job and takes an enormous amount of energy.

(2) The work week was six days, and each work day was a grueling 12 hours.

(3) Years later, as an Army wife herself, she remembers a grueling 15-day trip to Europe on a ship.

(4) This wasn't the most pleasant way to begin a grueling , accusatory interview, but Jacobs' unease made sense for the obvious reasons.

(5) Things did get a little gruelling at time, but by the time I had done 5K I knew that I was going to finish.

(6) The scenery was breathtaking and it was a very enjoyable walk if a little gruelling at times.

(7) But in a strange way, it added a level of realism that we wouldn't have got, gruelling though it was.

(8) Plus, after a gruelling few days the creative juices were a little slack.

(9) Instead, I was gifted with the opportunity to endure the latest gruelingly stupid motion picture aimed at children who have been raised from infancy by a television set.

(10) This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift.

(11) As with any new venture, those first 12 months have been crucial - and gruelling .

(12) The documentary filmed them preparing for the latter, and their gruelling training regime was something to behold.

(13) Riders must complete four to five laps in one day, each of which can easily be a gruelling 25 miles long.

(14) David has been a paratrooper for a year after surviving a gruelling six-month training course.

(15) A gruelingly effective movement, performing it requires a unique combination of strength, balance and aerobic ability.

(16) Did he, as his father, have the right to stand in his son's way to reach the happiness he earned so gruelingly over the past years?

(17) These were based mainly in Scotland, where the courses were as gruelling as the terrain.

(18) Teams of between two and eight dogs will run at speeds of over 20 miles per hour around the gruelling four-mile course.

(19) So he put an incorrect date of birth on the application form and completed the gruelling 26 mile route.

(20) Then we'd shoulder the saplings in tandem and carry them back to the cottage, a gruelling 40 minutes.