It has been a pretty strenuous day, and there is another one coming.

Things were pretty strenuous there for a while, and I needed you dreadfully.

I'm afraid it will be pretty strenuous for you, Constance.

As I am not very young this seems to me a pretty strenuous time!

So I would say that life was a pretty strenuous proposition here, while it lasted.

Over our coffee I asked him if he didn't find the country in pretty strenuous times.

We live with pretty strenuous political campaigns in Britain, but these were downright lies, he told the Guardian.

The troops having undergone pretty strenuous training, we were inspected by Sir Ian Hamilton, who was to command us in the forthcoming campaign.

I have been intending to call you up, but," he paused, and added, "you know we are having a pretty strenuous time down here."

"Well, he did mount a pretty strenuous case against it," Karen admitted.

"Well, you had a pretty strenuous time, if you ask me," declared Frank.

" Pretty strenuous time," Sir Charles remarked.