How To Use Gruelling In A Sentence
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What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress?
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This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift.
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He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week.
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It's probably the most gruelling race in sport.
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This gruelling sporting discipline came along by chance.
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Wouldn't it be great, then, if there were somewhere handier, without that gruelling extra flight?
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During the day he endured strict discipline and gruelling fitness programmes.
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Paddlers of all ages and abilities are now getting into the last stages of training for the gruelling 125-mile marathon that is the Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race.
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To prepare for the gruelling event, she trained at the gym, using cross trainer machines, which simulate the action of skiing.
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The gruelling regime saw him slim to 16st, but he was left with unsightly flabby skin.
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Plus, after a gruelling few days the creative juices were a little slack.
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But they've got to prove their worth in a series of gruelling trials first.
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His day starts at 7am on the rowing machines found in most gyms for an hour's gruelling work.
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She proved that at last year's Sydney Olympics, winning a gold medal in the heptathlon, the gruelling seven-discipline event that requires athletes to be experts in everything from hurdles to the shot put.
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He was awarded a diploma with distinction at the end of the gruelling course.
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He was awarded a diploma with distinction at the end of the gruelling course.
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Each morning, the luggage, food and equipment needed for the gruelling miles ahead is loaded into a minibus.
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The next day the riders faced a mountain stage that would rank alongside the most gruelling of any road race.
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Mr Stocks can expect a gruelling week on the publicity treadmill.
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She belted out her tune despite fears she would be too frail for the gruelling live schedule.
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They can be glossed over in a speech, but not so in America's gruelling tradition of head-to-head TV debates.
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After a gruelling day of standing staring into space, she returns to her poky apartment to make drawings, which she occasionally sells through an art dealer.
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The gruelling labour all day in the cold was killing them.
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Ruby Juniper needs gruelling dialysis three times a week to stay alive.
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He will spend the next month on crutches before launching into a gruelling rehab programme.
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Despite the gruelling journey she was optimistic and courageous.
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It showed how gruelling the commando training course is and the extent of the determination of the recruits taking part.
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The fitness we worked so hard on, that's when it all comes into play, when the season gets gruelling.
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The commercial tells the tale of the brave Kerryman who undertook a gruelling 35-mile walk in a raging blizzard to summon help for the rest of his expedition.
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The pair grew close over two years while having gruelling hospital treatment for lung disease cystic fibrosis.
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As the hot water sluiced into the sunken tub, easing her aches and pains, she began to think about the gruelling casting.
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If you look at any photograph of the Boddies, they're always smiling; you see Louise working at the stamper – which is a gruelling, nasty job – and she's all aglow.
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It was not unusual for Laurie to drag his swimmers out of bed late at night in a swim camp after a gruelling days work and run them on the beach and sandhills for another hour.
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With nothing but miles of open, bleak desert ahead of her, she battled mind over matter to reach the end of a gruelling 160 km trip.
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Construction projects in Kenya can be long and gruelling: foundations are dug with pickaxes and even cement must mixed by hand.
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He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert.
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They finished their gruelling trip on Thursday after battling blizzard conditions and freezing temperatures along the way.
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Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby.
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It's a curious East/West schism that Japanese horror somehow becomes more delicate, more epicurean, when it is most gruellingly sadistic, whereas Western horror almost always forfeits its sophistication when crossing these lines, too blunt to be effectively cruel.
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He will spend the next month on crutches before launching into a gruelling rehab programme.
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Anyone who has completed a triathlon will understand the importance of preparing physically and mentally to finish the gruelling race.
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I felt really mopey this morning after a particularly gruelling session with my advice guidance tutor.
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The event is unusual because boats from cruisers to small dinghies compete and on the first day gruelling conditions in Force 4 to 5, with stronger gusts, tested every boat and many of the safety crews to the limit.
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A gruelling 4 year exam testing their analogue skills
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February 8, 1922, BOSTON HERALD: A "gruelling" examination, as the police employ the term, is one expected to put its recipient in the soup.
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Being a single mother brings a whole other set of gruelling challenges.
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Junior doctors often have to work a gruelling 100-hour week.
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It involves academic study as well as a gruelling daily round of training and matches across the States.
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Instead of contending with a gruelling journey to work, the 31-year-old borough resident now enjoys hopping on her bike to do a job she finds worthwhile.
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If that's the case, it wouldn't be entirely unexpected, considering the director is Blood Diamond's Ed Zwick, a filmmaker whose work can be as well-crafted as it is gruellingly earnest.
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Since then his life couldn't have been any more bumpy or gruelling had he set off down a mogul run on a tea tray.
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Multiple call-backs are rare and long "gruelling" auditions even rarer.
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Annie Evett has just spent a gruelling (for her) few days sorting out and chucking patchwork scraps and oddments of materials from garments she made more than 20 years ago.
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With voice is faltering after a gruelling campaign, he called on an old rival for help.
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As with any new venture, those first 12 months have been crucial - and gruelling.
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The cola giant, Thums Up, is challenging youth all over the country to undertake gruelling tests of strength and stamina.
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There's inter-band boisterousness, earlobe-biting, plenty of "gruelling" press interviews, and some genuinely touching footage of the band trying to cover up Dougie's post-break-up Priory stint.
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It was Havies' better knowhow that helped them to be in front in this gruelling contest played in miry conditions.
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Armstrong recovered from testicular cancer to compete in one of sport's most gruelling tests a year later.
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The next day the riders faced a mountain stage that would rank alongside the most gruelling of any road race.
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Lightweight recreational mallets are not up to the task of this gruelling version of the game.
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Hundreds of refugees were herded into cattle trucks for the gruelling ten-hour journey.
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But the Hull boss must beware the gruelling demands of competing at both home and abroad.
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The filming lasted two months and all the actors were subjected to a gruelling schedule.
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It was only his second appearance during a gruelling campaign.
Times, Sunday Times
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Chances are that you or someone you know is faced with the gruelling task of excluding it from his or her diet - wheat.
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However, it was a triumphant night for Rovers, despite the rain which made for gruelling conditions at Villa Park.
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Solicitor Paul Cowper and his family endured a gruelling seven hours trapped on a balcony, surrounded by torrents of raging water in Sri Lanka.
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I can multitask and perform the gruelling art of time management to perfection.
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I had never studied international law before the gruelling four months of my life that the moot eventually consumed.
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All in all a gruelling event which was well attended for a new event on the calendar, 106 riders putting their toes to the line, most never having raced over this distance before.
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Since then he has run the London marathon and the gruelling 150-mile Great Sahara Run.
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So he put an incorrect date of birth on the application form and completed the gruelling 26 mile route.
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Junior doctors often have to work a gruelling 100-hour week.
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The two leaders want to draft in new blood to re-energise their parties for the gruelling fight ahead.
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Beckett's enthusiasm is undimmed by the gruelling schedule his two jobs enforce.
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Indeed the last two in 2003 and 2007 were such gruellingly tedious one-sided affairs, littered with meaningless "Super" stage matches and spineless collapses by the few teams who could potentially test Australia, that this year's event has to have only three close games to make it seem like a classic by comparison.
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One gruelling set of photographs showed a man seeking medical help for his wheelchair-bound wife as he pushed her through streets strewn with rubble.
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A gruelling 4 year exam testing their analogue skills
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After weeks of gruelling auditions and nail-biting tension, millions of fans tuned in on Saturday night as the final 10 boys and 10 girls were announced.
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Gruelling training timetables included drills with javelins, slings, shields and 18-ft spears.
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This flight was more gruelling than I had expected.
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As with any new venture, those first 12 months have been crucial - and gruelling.
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Sprinkled with gruelling technical climbs, crazy downhill flings, and easy-rolling side hills, this trail is excellent for all levels of riders.
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Michael Brodie's heroic win over Maurin has earned him special praise from referee Richie Davies, who handled the gruelling World Boxing Federation featherweight title fight last month.
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But in his spare time the fitness fan endures a gruelling exercise and diet regime to ensure he is a top-class body-builder and he is now in the process of flexing his pecs to take on Europe and the World.
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Riders must complete four to five laps in one day, each of which can easily be a gruelling 25 miles long.
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The gruelling race is held over five days, over rough terrain in scorching heat.
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The entertainment correspondent is one of 12 climbers setting their sights on conquering the summit as a dramatic coda to a gruelling expedition.
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Only 14 of the 40 horses finished the gruelling four-and-a-half mile course in Liverpool.
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The gruelling regime saw him slim to 16st, but he was left with unsightly flabby skin.
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The documentary filmed them preparing for the latter, and their gruelling training regime was something to behold.
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Most have travelled a long road to get to San Roque, and the pressure of trying to hold it all together over six gruelling rounds cannot be underestimated.
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He had complained of exhaustion after his gruelling schedule over the past week.
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She had the painful accident earlier this week while following her gruelling fitness regime which includes cycling.
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Although the panto is a lot of fun, Joanna, now also a model having been announced as "the new face of Superdrug" earlier this year, says the schedule of two shows a day for the six-week stretch is a little gruelling.
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He's had a gruelling tour and it's been a grind.
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He passed the gruelling selection procedure for the SAS at the first try and became a troop commander in 22 SAS, specialising in intelligence and counter-terrorism.
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It was only his second appearance during a gruelling campaign.
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The gruelling recruitment process takes up to nine months and is in itself a measure of commitment.
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That made the gruelling trudge back towards base camp all the harder to bear.
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The following three years as a PoW ended with a gruelling forced march westwards across Germany.
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He eventually won the match after five gruelling sets.
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Now they are about to embark on a gruelling world tour.
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After a gruelling six months singing on a world tour, it is hardly surprising that her voice is starting to go.
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The gruelling race is held over five days, over rough terrain in scorching heat.
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These were based mainly in Scotland, where the courses were as gruelling as the terrain.
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Every day was full of challenges, some gruelling, others just plain grubby.
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That means gruelling daily gym sessions and regular ice time at Altrincham, where he is a junior coach.
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Yet sleep is likely to be the clincher when it comes to the show's future - can Parker and Nixon sustain gruelling filming schedules while raising families?
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The overall effect is hallucinogenic, paranoid and almost gruellingly clever.
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I get to spend some time with my cousin and her fam before the gruelling workshop schedule kicks in.
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So he put an incorrect date of birth on the application form and completed the gruelling 26 mile route.
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That made the gruelling trudge back towards base camp all the harder to bear.
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The new game show will pit families against each other in a series of gruelling challenges.
The Sun
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Each faces five gruelling challenges designed to test their mental and physical abilities to the maximum.
The Sun
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They will chip away at any self-deception during the gruelling group sessions, which are at the heart of the programme - though psychodrama and art therapy are also used.
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But in a strange way, it added a level of realism that we wouldn't have got, gruelling though it was.
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During none of this-gruelling, outr6 and bodeful though most of it was-did he hear any suggestion
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The final was closer than the scoreline suggested, with both players adopting a defensive style in a gruelling final.
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The races proved as gruelling as the competitors feared; the heat taking its toll.
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Ultra runners attempt the loop in a single gruelling day.
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Each faces five gruelling challenges designed to test their mental and physical abilities to the maximum.
The Sun
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This could take up to an hour and must be completed by the end of a gruelling nine-hour shift.
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Thirty civilians try to complete a series of gruelling challenges in this endurance show.
The Sun
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Hundreds of refugees were herded into cattle trucks for the gruelling ten-hour journey.
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She wrote on Twitter that the past 24 hours had been gruelling.
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The president and his vice hosted the prime minister and his vice at State House, a move towards uniting the nation after a gruelling campaign.
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He learned last night's routine in a fortnight of gruelling training after doctors gave him the go-ahead to compete.
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The walking party stopped at bed and breakfasts overnight during their gruelling hike.
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A Swindon man who used to be a couch potato is now preparing to take on eight of the UK's most gruelling endurance races to raise money for charity.
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The documentary filmed them preparing for the latter, and their gruelling training regime was something to behold.
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Teams of between two and eight dogs will run at speeds of over 20 miles per hour around the gruelling four-mile course.
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It's gruelling and unblinking - like many of the best and most profound films about boozing and the grittier side of life.
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With voice is faltering after a gruelling campaign, he called on an old rival for help.
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The scenery was breathtaking and it was a very enjoyable walk if a little gruelling at times.
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Athletes would love to win races without spending ten gruelling hours a day in training beforehand.
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With a gruelling fitness regime to get through, the pressure is on as the eight stretch their physical and mental endurance levels to the limit.
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Only 14 of the 40 horses finished the gruelling four-and-a-half mile course in Liverpool.
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Looking at the 20 to 30 lads in here, smacking the punch bags, battling through gruelling rounds of sit-ups and press-ups, and sparring in the ring, provides convincing evidence of commitment.
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She let out an unearthly scream of joy as she won by a wheel after 78 gruelling miles.
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Junior doctors often have to work a gruelling 100-hour week.
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It was an 18-month, gruelling journey for the elephant which was rechristened Sultan Suleyman by the king after the great enemy of Europe in those days.
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If you look at any photograph of the Boddies, they're always smiling; you see Louise working at the stamper – which is a gruelling, nasty job – and she's all aglow.
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Instead of giving their chapters proper titles, these worthy gentlemen simply slap a character’s name at the top of a fresh page, followed by his or her inmost thoughts and experiences in gruelling detail.
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They'll have to endure five gruelling rehearsals to learn how to sing, wave and dance in exactly the correct way.
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Specialist officers face a more gruelling task.
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After the gruelling test, he felt totally spent.
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The cast took a break from their gruelling schedule.
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He will also be able to compete on an equal footing with some of the professionals on the circuit, who have already found themselves trailing in his wake on some of the sport's most gruelling courses.
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Searching on the net is a totally gruelling experience.
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It commemorates a trek more gruelling than the tourists who gawp at it can imagine.
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Oliver Hirschbiegel's film Downfall is a deeply important contribution to the canon of Second World War cinema - a gruellingly in-depth depiction of the final days of Adolf Hitler's reign as Führer of the Third Reich.
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He went out on a gruelling early-morning run as soon as he arrived in England yesterday.
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With my other half back from a gruelling tour of South Africa, not unlike Victoria's husband a few weeks earlier, we were ready for the beach, although there was a tempting offer to open a school fête in West London which almost held us back.
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The actress had to endure months of gruelling training to get in shape for the role.
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He worked gruelling ten-hour days - and often through the night.
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If you reached the age of 35 in those gruelling years you were reckoned to have an unusually robust constitution.
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If you can't face the steep walk, three funicular trams ply the gruelling route.
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It is a gruelling life with a diary full of engagements and precious little purpose.
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The only way in was by a gruelling road journey from India.
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He has a serious nature and his powers of concentration are a boon when it comes to his gruelling training schedule.
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He will be involved in a gruelling schedule of 60 metres hurdles, high jump, long jump, shot and 1,000 metres.
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Like its full-frame sibling, the A850 is ruggedly built for dependable performance in gruelling conditions with a high-tensile aluminium chassis and all-magnesium alloy body shell.
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Teams of between two and eight dogs will run at speeds of over 20 miles per hour around the gruelling four-mile course.
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Prof Abrahams, an English professor and senior vice-president of the Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada, won his rectorship by running a gruellingly public race in which he was interrogated by all "stakeholders" in the university community after a public lecture and televised interview procedure earlier this week.
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Just getting the deal done has been a gruelling journey.
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She would not be able to keep that same gruelling schedule.
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He has had plenty of time to prepare it and has won two races in it, including the Transat, the gruelling 2,800-mile single-handed transatlantic race, during the summer.
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Since then he has run the London marathon and the gruelling 150-mile Great Sahara Run.
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Tony swapped his suit for camouflage when he tackled a gruelling Army challenge.
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David has been a paratrooper for a year after surviving a gruelling six-month training course.
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Then we'd shoulder the saplings in tandem and carry them back to the cottage, a gruelling 40 minutes.
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Things did get a little gruelling at time, but by the time I had done 5K I knew that I was going to finish.
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The gruelling climb will see the participants scale heights of 4000m in very difficult conditions.
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But in a strange way, it added a level of realism that we wouldn't have got, gruelling though it was.
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The pace would be gruelling even for the hungriest banker of half his 65 years.
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Yet he admitted he would know when it was time to reduce his gruelling workload.
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Plus, after a gruelling few days the creative juices were a little slack.
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Intense heat and humidity, coupled with painful swollen feet which was a side effect of surgery, meant I could complete only four of the gruelling seven days walking.
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Instead she works hard for about an hour and a half twice a week knocking seven bells out of punchbags, completing gruelling gym circuits and sparring with men, usually six-footers who tower over her in the ring.
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From what I know of Ellroy's life, I can imagine that "gruelling" understates the case.
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The three-week gap between last weekend's Chinese Grand Prix and the forthcoming Spanish Grand Prix on 9 May should on paper provide teams with the opportunity to refine their cars before the European leg of the season begins - and allow drivers some well-deserved rest following the gruelling schedule of four 'flyaway' races in just five weeks.
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Riders must complete four to five laps in one day, each of which can easily be a gruelling 25 miles long.
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This is not just because they're gruellingly drawn-out affairs, but also because most of those in attendance are not up for awards, and most of those who are in the running finish as losers.
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But the Hull boss must beware the gruelling demands of competing at both home and abroad.
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The gruellingly-steep slopes will go a huge way towards determining the final general classification, and strong performances will be necessary for all who want to target yellow or even a top ten on GC.
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These were based mainly in Scotland, where the courses were as gruelling as the terrain.
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Things did get a little gruelling at time, but by the time I had done 5K I knew that I was going to finish.
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Why the crash diet and gruelling workout regime?
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David has been a paratrooper for a year after surviving a gruelling six-month training course.
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If you reached the age of 35 in those gruelling years you were reckoned to have an unusually robust constitution.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gruelling training timetables included drills with javelins, slings, shields and 18-ft spears.
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What could stop two swashbuckling heroes from venturing in for another gruelling day larking around in fancy dress?
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David endured gruelling chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatment as well as major surgery.
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The scenery was breathtaking and it was a very enjoyable walk if a little gruelling at times.
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Like most top chefs, his lifestyle could already be described as gruelling, starting work at 7am and finishing at 11pm after dinner.
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Having practised the discipline since the age of 15, Rebecca is used to gruelling training routines.
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This flight was more gruelling than I had expected.
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I would never have to attend a gruelling bums and tums ' workout ever again.
