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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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The Le Mans 24 hour race is the most gruelling event in the motor-racing calendar.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A chance for a last flourish and a bit of fun at the end of a gruelling league campaign.
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Events include Hang Tough - a gruelling game of aerial chess - and Atlaspheres, a battle fought in giant globes.
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He has a serious nature and his powers of concentration are a boon when it comes to his gruelling training schedule.
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In his gruelling work schedule, sixty-year old Garrett continues at a rate that would tax many men half his age.
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It could take fourteen weeks to complete the gruelling journey on foot from London to Rome in the Middle Ages.
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McAllister should be on his knees after a gruelling month at Elland Road.
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Middlesbrough face a gruelling ten-match programme in April.
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Or see them through an abortion, a divorce, a gruelling court-case?