1. Nursing was ill-paid and grindingly hard work.

2. So grindingly horrible it could clear any room anywhere any time.

3. Woolley's training programme was grindingly hard, tent-life cold, wet and colourless, and the news from the front depressing.

4. "This is becoming a grindingly familiar pattern with strength in wireless and weakness in wireline," said Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Craig Moffett.

5. February 2008 As someone with two mortgages, it is deeply, grindingly, continually worrying.

6. Basal readers are provided and everyone begins with Reader No.1 and grindingly slowly, ignoring any interests the children might have, each child progresses step by step to Reader No. 157.