laboriously

laborious | American Dictionary

laborious
adjective
us/ləˈbɔr·i·əs, -ˈboʊr-/
needing a lot of time and effort:
a laborious task

Examples of laborious

laborious
Direct measurements are laborious and costly, and are usually only possible over a limited time span and number of sites.
Furthermore, scoring similarity rating questionnaires is less laborious for experimenters than is the compilation of correct and incorrect responses given by participants in translation elicitation.
Prosperity came from careful and laborious husbandry and was a sign of virtue: poverty was its opposite.
Manually adding best-fit curves to data plots can be laborious and prone to error.
Owing to the complex configurations of these chromosomes, this was a laborious procedure, and is subject to error.
Breeding for perennial species is a time-consuming, laborious task, and the release of suitable cultivars is still perhaps 25 years away.
Reasons for this include the long generation time, the large space requirements and the laborious handling required to maintain and breed the mice.
In the other localities no bands were used, and the collections were made by a laborious searching of the trunks.
However, the maintenance of this animal model is laborious, expensive and requires special equipment.
Current methods for screening for hantavirus antibodies in rodent populations are laborious, combining sampling in the field and subsequent analyses in the laboratory.
The bibliographic information on the majority of primary texts is hidden away in footnotes, which makes locating it somewhat laborious.
We were threatening to take the bread away, and so, we felt that we had to give a "laborious" proof to persuade them.
Their work has been manual and laborious, but arguably represents the most comprehensive example of ontology mapping today.
These procedures can be relatively effective, but also laborious and expensive, and are therefore usually conducted once a year.
These conflicts proved to be stumbling blocks in the laborious road to a cross-border tariffication system compatible with the internal market concept.
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