1.   Asked if he was nervous, he held out his left hand and wobbled it back and forth, then indicated frustration with the tedious hours of practice.

2.   In hour after tedious hour of interrogation, the two lawyers picked over every aspect of the evidence collection by criminalist Mazzola and her supervisor, Dennis Fung.

3.   Just what does Gov. Fife Symington scribble so copiously during the tedious hours at the defense table of his criminal trial?

4.   President Bush has a disdain for making treaties, especially spending the tedious hours of negotiations required to work out all the details.

5.   She spends tedious hours peering through a microscope at the speck-sized cells.

6.   There are many tedious hours, Goff said, spent counting eyes, wing veins, and hairs or bristles on various parts of the insects bodies.

7.   Disruption entails tedious hours poring over lists of names and photographs of suspects.

8.   The results also could render moot many tedious hours of testimony by Matheson over whether the less-sophisticated conventional serology tests conducted on the blood were accurately interpreted.