Lace machinery made lace at a fraction of the cost of the old, laborious methods.

But he was captivated by the idea of avoiding the laborious method of making the corn dough then universally used in Mexico.

As a liquid, iron can be cast into molds, a method far less laborious than individually forging each piece of iron from a bloom.

A company wants to install a computer system in one of its departments which has previously had to use slow, laborious (but reliable) manual methods.

The abacist had to solve the problem by a more laborious algorithmic method, and lost the competition to Feynman.

The search was begun by a laborious method on 29 July.

Other laborious and expensive methods made small amounts of steel from special ores.

It is certain, however, that some of these primitive insects did develop a much swifter and less laborious method of getting down.

One of the most laborious methods is that advocated by James Beard, who favored free-range birds.