Making this transformation... requires painstaking work and it takes time, he said.

So it is painstaking work, Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi told CBC radio.

You always astonish me with your painstaking work; is it a coquetry?

Attributing specific weather events is painstaking work that requires time significant computing power.

Years of painstaking work investigating abuses of MSPs' second-homes' allowances down the drain.

He is delighted with the discovery after years of painstaking work.

Five years of painstaking work by the two sovereign governments was coming to fruition.

Behind every successful project is a lot of painstaking work.

There were weeks of delicate, painstaking work awaiting them here.

After the Windsor fire, it took years of painstaking work to restore the historic building.

Figuring out an alien language is painstaking work, but Louise takes to it with aplomb.

It's the slowest, most painstaking work I ever saw.

I had shattered my parents' trust, and piecing it back together would be slow, painstaking work.

The slow, painstaking work on the transmitter continued while the suns moved farther south each year.

Prying the pages apart was slow, painstaking work.

It's often the culmination of years of painstaking work, building networks, researching companies and meeting senior management.