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Meanings of backbreaking in inglês
Sinônimos
Examples for "hard"
Examples for "hard"
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First year was fine, he says, but second year was very hard.
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But there's also a lot of hard work involved, often physical work.
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It has been a year of hard work, focus, and great success.
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Result: Stylish and yet hard to use and packed with proprietary technology.
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Crew members don't just work hard -they often work every day.
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China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on heavy government subsidies.
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Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
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Twenty years of freedom have seen heavy investment is Soweto's public transport.
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And Western Australia has particularly heavy penalties under its Public Health Act.
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There is also new evidence that heavy precipitation has increased in Europe.
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Mr Vailea said teachers punishing students physically is clearly against the law.
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The market seems to be punishing companies in that position, he added.
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It was punishing; he had never before done such hard physical work.
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The main end of the punishing affair was to feed their writing.
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We could also start punishing all murderers with public torture and beheading.
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The work was laborious and pointless, as far as Aylaen could see.
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Time went on; things happened; but Ryecroft was still laborious and poor.
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Similarly, advances in science and medicine have been achieved through laborious research.
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In one minute the respiration was laborious, and the pupils were dilated.
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Health and posterity are the portion of the poor- Imeanthe laborious.
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She helped people with the arduous paperwork involved in collecting government aid.
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Revitalizing the New Orleans streetcar system has been a slow, arduous process.
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It is arduous and often painful, but helps provide for their families.
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These arduous examinations, particularly the Leaving, are also a uniquely Irish experience.
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It had been a long, arduous journey through New Crobuzon's vaulted conduits.
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The following year he had a gruelling training period in nine movies.
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Few Irish athletes remain more committed, particularly in such a gruelling event.
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A set of knives and the beginning of a gruelling training regime.
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Yet again we have seen gruelling evidence thirty-two teams are too many.
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Their ascent has been far longer and more gruelling than Veronica expected.
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It was 13 weeks of grueling work chest-deep in water and cold.
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Photo: supplied In the south island another grueling event is also underway.
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A grueling multi-hour training session may call for 90 grams per hour.
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A month of hard travel-aftera month of grueling training and heartache.
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Ferreting him out was going to be a long, grueling, time-consuming process.
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She had before her a toilsome journey in the companionship of men.
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And now commenced their toilsome journey down the side of the cataract.
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Contrast with this toilsome slowness the speed of the junk bound down-stream.
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Two years or more passed away in quiet, toilsome days for Mildred.
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It was the same old smoky, toilsome place, a perceptible bit lower.
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Some of the Xenia are far-fetched and operose, while others sound rather vacuous.
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But what an operose method!
Usage of backbreaking in inglês
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New York then added two backbreaking goals late in the second period.
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The going was harder now; it was backbreaking work pulling the line.
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He'd take a bit of marching over that backbreaking work any time.
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It was a backbreaking job, and the real work hadn't even begun.
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Tommy wondered, too, whether his father's backbreaking work was hurting his golf.
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A day of drama, a day of backbreaking climbs and flat-out racing.
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His hands cover his face as he busts out in backbreaking sobs.
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Much of the work was drudgery; most of it was backbreaking and laborious.
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Farming is backbreaking work, but at least it is honest labor.
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It's easy to forget that all this beauty is built on backbreaking labour.
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It was backbreaking work-loavesweigh more than you'd think when packed tightly together.
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Denton-Hurst describes her periods as heavy and messy with backbreaking cramps.
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Migrants, who do low-paying, backbreaking jobs across the country, face widespread exploitation and discrimination.
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It was still either the mill, the backbreaking uncertainty of the fields, or surrender.
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Everything had to go over the walls, a backbreaking task.
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A son who could help with backbreaking work, a daughter who could keep the house.
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