"gruelling work" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to describe a task or job that is extremely physically or mentally demanding and exhausting. Example: "After weeks of gruelling work, the team was finally able to complete the project ahead of schedule."
After a gruelling period of work (or what passes for gruelling work in our soft-handed world), you will crave some kind of reward.
They each bought as many Louis Vuitton handbags as they could carry and then returned to the van, in order to be transferred to the next store.It was gruelling work, complains a girl from the van.
If she hasn't got it, he hits her". Drivers and labourers have long relied on methamphetamine tablets – known here as yaba or "crazy drug" – to sustain them through gruelling work sessions.
The official story was that years of gruelling work in the 49C (120F) heat of the Baghdad summer had proved too much for "her slender stock of physical energy".
"I and my team would come up with a concept like turning R2D2 into a slide projector and the marketing guys would pitch it to the client – so it was gruelling work with long hours and last-minute revisions". His work was spotted by a sportswear recruiter and in 2001 he moved to Portland, Oregon, to work in Nike's soccer department then, five years later, the running section.
Robson insists that putting in the gruelling work off court is not a problem for her.
Those employees describe gruelling working conditions and punishing targets which must be met to keep packages flying out of the warehouse doors.
Spain's idiosyncratic and gruelling working day, an 11-hour stretch punctuated by coffee breaks, yawns and long lunches, could be abandoned as the government seeks to bring the country into line with the rest of Europe.
This was gruelling mental work, and after three or four hours he was very tired.
Ask someone to describe a typical farmer and they might imagine a burly, weather-beaten man putting in unforgivingly long days of gruelling physical work.
More than two years of gruelling technical work laid the ground for the wartime conference of officials and finance ministers (prime ministers and presidents had other things to deal with).
