The whole exercise, from beginning to end, should take about two hours, with plenty of time at the start just for thinking.

Q: Then what was the point of the whole exercise?

The whole exercise, they said, would take 7,475 man hours, 934 working days.

Each point was making me more wary of the whole exercise.

The staff found the whole exercise to be a useful one.

The whole exercise only last about a second and a half.

In which case, what was the point of this whole exercise?

Actually, that was exactly the point of the whole exercise.

The whole exercise was based on money matters, rather than reality.

That is the point of the whole exercise, I guess.