Sentence examples similar to is fairly arduous from inspiring English sources

Long-distance travel was fairly arduous and expensive in 1920, and perhaps these were birds not everyone could hear where she lived.

In the early days, getting to Nice was fairly arduous, requiring a trip either on the back of a mule or in a litter carried by six or eight men -- or in a "kind of Roman galley" rowed by a dozen oarsmen.

"It was pretty arduous," she said.

AOL certainly doesn't put the top Netscape stories on its front page – there's a fairly arduous editorial process required just to get stories from the sprawling Weblogs Inc. network onto AOL proper.

In rare cases, veteran freelancers might pocket a little bit of money while pre-reporting a story -- an agreement New York calls a "step deal" -- but those kind of arrangements are rare and remain fairly arduous.

Even for a British act, her unstarriness goes against trend, with fellow Brit school alumnus Jessie J adopting a very American habit of over-emoting, talking about a "journey" and making the idea of being a pop star seem fairly arduous.

Being driven around in a somewhat clapped-out Vauxhall Corsa was decidedly less than she was used to, but she took on a fairly arduous schedule nonetheless.

It is an arduous journey.

The work is, indeed, arduous.

Our task is less arduous.

Treating peanut allergy is an arduous process.