This was no time for a painstaking job of packing.

Each planned to do a painstaking job, taking a year to establish his case.

We did it a few more times, then began the painstaking job of getting into the pink dress.

A painstaking job, needing a steady hand, especially on such a famous trophy.

Then began the long, painstaking job of deep rummage.

It was going to be a painstaking job; he'd need to be calm and careful.

When the Ecology-Ship left, it had done a very painstaking job.

Designing type fonts used to be a difficult and painstaking job for graphic designers.

The editors did a painstaking job in collating the letters and various bits of correspondences between the two.

It was a painstaking job.

It was a slow, painstaking job, and when it was finished he lay back on the grass, panting heavily.

To create a book in this way is a laborious, painstaking job, and it's no wonder it took Flaubert five years to finish Madame Bovary.

Now, as the weeklong installation here neared its end, Mr. Russell began the painstaking job of tuning the new instrument and testing its lungs.

Clearing those has proved the most difficult and painstaking job the mine removal teams face in Afghanistan, because the smallest movement or vibration can set the bombs off.

It was Mr. Ewing who stripped the paint off the elaborate staircase; a painstaking job encompassing each and every carved and curving baluster.

But tailoring them to fit comfortably and work efficiently, a painstaking job of tinkering, falls to technicians like Ralph Urgolites and Joe Miller.

The sheriff's department's crime scene guys had begun to do their thing: they'd set up portable spotlights to illuminate the alley so they could begin the painstaking job of collecting evidence.

Preparations for the festive event are manifested by special offerings to family shrine deities, painted doors with religious symbols, and other painstaking jobs done to prepare for the event.

The painstaking job of removing the brick from the south wall of the tower at the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 55th Street is expected to start next week and to take weeks to complete.

It's a painstaking job, but the company's work is not flawless, which is why different systems thought a historic inn in Redding Ridge, Conn., was three miles from where it has actually sat for 245 years.

And once you get all this done, you have the painstaking job of reinstalling all your applications and data, either from scratch or from backups that you hope the backup hardware and software can restore.

So Mr. Rustine, with the help of Marcor Remediation, a Maryland cleanup company that helped rid the Hart Senate Office Building of anthrax, has a painstaking job ahead of him.

Working closely with this group was Dr. Julius Wildstosser who had the painstaking job of examining miles of microfilm and translating thousands of German documents for me and my Reader's Digest associates.

That means a painstaking job of rounding up the remnants of the opposition front - led by Ahmed Shah Massoud until his death on Saturday - along with whatever forces the Afghan royalists might recruit and, most important, Taliban defectors.

The painstaking job of transcribing often hard-to-decipher handwritten documents from history's lead players - not to mention a lack of money - has meant that most originals are seen by a just a handful of scholars and kept out of the public's reach altogether.