Sentence examples for painstaking length from inspiring English sources

He reads them carefully and writes back at painstaking length.

Habana was actually in front of the kicker, which is illegal as Brian Moore explains at painstaking length.

His Lorrimer is deliciously slow-simmering as he goes to painstaking lengths to remain decorous as long as possible.

With so much at stake, they go to painstaking lengths to complete their portion of the race.

Most importantly, what happened to the "painstaking lengths" to which you'll go to perfect every dish?

But both have gone to painstaking lengths to stress that they weren't predicting that the worst of the sell-off was over.

Tate Liverpool, Fri to 8 Feb RC An artist who artfully intercuts fiction with fact, Stan Douglas goes to painstaking lengths to take us in and introduce us to his stock cast of ghosts.

As if to illustrate the point, he embarks on a rapid and astonishingly detailed explanation of the painstaking lengths he'll go to perfect every single dish, that culminates in the assertion that 72C (161F) is the only temperature at which to cook a lemon tart.

Geelong coach Chris Scott has gone to painstaking lengths this year to repeatedly assure the footy world that he's not interested in what the triple-premiership Cats team used to be, but rather what the next great Cats side will look like.

"Boardwalk Empire" is set in Atlantic City in 1920, during the first year of Prohibition, and the big outdoor set, the vintage clothing and the kind of historical research that delights in Houdini's sibling are all evidence of the unusual, painstaking lengths the show's creators have gone to recreate an era that barely registers in the American historical consciousness.

Companies go to painstaking lengths to signal that they trust their employees – to show that this is your company.