"She has painstakingly built a track record while staying true to herself and her instincts."

Edwards, cycling over 6000 miles a year around Norfolk, painstakingly built the membership up to 3000 within two years.

By daybreak all that remained of the small businesses they had painstakingly built was ashes.

Each display has been painstakingly built and rebuilt.

More than once, she had seen men step forward and arrogantly assume command of cases she herself had painstakingly built from scratch.

The engineering marvels that are Formula One cars are painstakingly built and can cost in the millions.

It seemed to him to be real madness to take away any of the safeties he had painstakingly built, and he had quit the sessions.

These yuan lin, which were in fact villas surrounded by gardens, were carefully tended, painstakingly built.

Gerald Hawkes uses matchsticks like bricks as he painstakingly builds small monuments with references to tribal and folk art.

Rather, they say, they are simply trying to hold onto what they have painstakingly built over many years and what their communities have come to expect of them.