Laws are a tedious business and counting coppers is worse.

It was a slow and tedious business, certainly, but the first signs were there.

His arrival gave me a perfect excuse to cut short the tedious business of farewells.

So we began the long and tedious business of a parallel search.

A good idea, but it made it difficult to judge what might have gone wrong without the tedious business of taking off the bottom plate.

That morning I took my guns to the police range and began the tedious business of sighting in the rifle.

Then came the tedious business of working through the small airlock, one at a time.

The editor's primary responsibility would be the tedious business of bringing the paper out every week.

The critical enquiry after truth can be a tedious business.

It proved a tedious business, when he was longing for swift action.