1.   Before long, high school seniors will start the agonizing process of thinking about whether to apply to college.

2.   After such an agonizing process, most authors would take a long break.

3.   If so, couples would have more time for the agonizing process of weighing their options for continuing the pregnancy or terminating it.

4.   It is hard to avoid the conclusion that the country is a long way from an end to this agonizing process.

5.   It was an agonizing process.

6.   The whole agonizing process took several weeks, but it was worth it to increase public confidence in the outcome.

7.   This agonizing process has done two things to Lewis.

8.   Waters whisks Ruth away to a halfway hut in the middle of nowhere, and the agonizing deprogramming process begins.

9.   When the retired landlord decided to convert his rental properties to cash, I began the agonizing process of accumulating packing materials.