Sentence examples for tortuous time from inspiring English sources

"We also had this tortuous time where we didn't know where the next Somerset wicket was coming from.

Among the most unlikely groups to find shelter in India were an estimated 20,000 Polish people, who had an especially tortuous time getting to India.

But unexpected solace came during her tortuous time in the jungle, when she starred in I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! "I don't live in the celebrity world, my friends are very normal, so when I was in the jungle it actually was useful to speak to other people who had been through it too.

Supporters of the new rules contend that financial markets have overlooked their importance, because reaching agreement has been so tortuous and time-consuming.

The match was tortuous, at times frantic, and Chelsea could count itself fortunate to win, 2-1, with a goal in the final moments, from Lampard.

Dating – especially handing over contact details – is a tortuous business at times, so how much easier would it be to network if the point of contact was made easier to control?

In their behaviour, French locusts had a more tortuous track, spent less time climbing, had a lower track speed, spent more time walking, and jumped more frequently than Malagasy locusts (CF1 of the canonical discriminant analysis of the behavioural data; see Figure 1b and Additional file 1).

Some quick excerpts: "Who would be left to buy General Electric at 30 times next year's expected earnings, Wal-Mart at 40 times and Cisco at 60 times?" "The tortuous verbiage of Internet analysts rings hollow.

The process itself was fairly tortuous and for a time it did nothing but slowly chip away at our belief that we would find the right person.

There was not a statistically significant difference in insertion times for complete colonoscopy when comparing patients with documented tortuous (N = 41, median time 9.4 min, IQR 11.15) or redundant (N = 35, median time 11.0 min, IQR 7.8) colons (P = 0.1).

At the UN, the diplomacy has at times been tortuous.