laborious

Infinitive complement

• read: I've read much shorter books which were much more laborious to read.
• write: When there are several factors, it gets laborious to write out all the main and interaction effects required.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• make: This has made the book more laborious to produce, but has made the finished product a better teaching device.
• seem: The application process seemed a bit laborious but was well worth it.

Modifies a noun

• task: More laborious tasks need only have more storage capacity.
• process: Each painting comes at the end of a laborious process.
• calculation: Are laborious time card calculations tying up your staff?
• journey: Might as well keep fit while I'm making laborious journeys, eh?
• effort: Any private wealth accrued by the Imperial Family is therefore recent in origin and the result of laborious efforts.
• procedure: In some cases design tools have been developed to replace laborious calculation procedures used in the design process.

Modifying Another Word

• somewhat: Drawing a map for future attempts is slow and somewhat laborious.
• extremely: To find these using a dictionary would be extremely laborious.
• rather: And our theses are the result of this rather laborious process.
• too: Data Entry: Into any Microsoft format, no job is too laborious.
• very: In practice, however, construction is a very laborious process.
• quite: What is quite laborious is having to learn to be sharper all over again.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: That several minute trek was compulsory, and, at the time, seemed laborious, even unnecessary.
• become: If writing ever became more laborious than that, then I don't think anyone would enjoy reading what I wrote.
• sound: Sounds very laborious, but once you have done it a couple of times it really isn't.
• prove: The Social Services Department insisted she hang out her own washing; however, this took a very long time and proved very laborious.