We're about to encounter the most strenuous month of our lives so far and no one knows exactly what to expect.
The NHS as a whole has made strenuous efforts to improve quality and safety of care since Robert Francis QC's report in 2013 into the Mid Staffs scandal, such as hiring many thousands more nurses.
"You may perhaps find some compensation for living in Cambridge in the excellent opportunities it affords for a strenuous intellectual life; it is a great advantage too that there should be so many young men from who to choose suitable and worthy companions".
We have made strenuous efforts to help him with his memory – including taking him back to where he was found – but nothing has been successful so far.
In the Nicaraguan sugar fields they found rates of CKD in cane cutters and seed cutters – the most strenuous jobs – to be higher than in pesticide applicators, who have greater exposure to agrochemicals.
He then made a strenuous effort for critical acclaim with his role as the serial killer Albert DeSalvo in The Boston Strangler (1968), flashily directed with use of a split screen.
Chasing deadlines and running late to lectures are the most strenuous forms of exercise many students engage in.
Ballantyne had made strenuous efforts to disassociate himself from the financial mismanagement that had seen Airdrieonians disappear under a mountain of debt.
For the more leisurely inclined, Antigua remains a place where there is no pressure on anyone to do anything more strenuous than count the sandpipers scampering along your balcony or feel the palm trees filter the heat of an early-evening breeze.
In life a few fine souls come along to make a strenuous case for how a person should be.
Nicaragua Sugar Estates, one of Central America's largest plantations, has conducted internal studies, and one in 2001 pointed to "strenuous labour with exposure to high environmental temperatures without an adequate hydration programme" as an important factor.
