He expected to have a dreadful time but would suffer through it for the good of the cause.

I have ever so many inside my head but the pictures take such a dreadful long time to draw!

"But they're having a dreadful time convincing the national governments."

I know; so many of the boys and girls are having a dreadful time getting started, nowadays.

They are having a dreadful enough time just trying to maintain the standards that their own members now enjoy.

It was a dreadful time in your life, in both our lives.

They had a dreadful time of it with her.

"It was a dreadful time for our profession," he said.

You must have a dreadful time keeping the girls out of it.

This idea of building something for us both, leaving all that dreadful time behind.