Scarcely was our long task completed when a guard unlocked our door.

She found that she had a long task which would occupy several evenings.

I have been looking to see it advertised; it has been a long task.

A long task in arithmetic was with difficulty done correctly.

I counted the drafts aloud and had a long task, for they numbered seventy-nine.

He saw nothing, and fell again to his long task.

It was a long task, and the day had gone before the work was ended.

Again, the words seem to contemplate a long task.

To study them all would be a long task.

But this can be a long task with the thousands of packages available in Debian!

It will be a long task, I think.

To break in somewhere proved a long task.

George had a long task in stone picking.

I had hoped my long , long task would have been done before, but it was not.

The prosperous close of the long task (vers.

It is the life- long task of child-rearing, for which she begins at last to realize she is unfit.