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Margaret's first speech, in a hectic and gruelling three-week campaign, took place in her own constituency of Finchley and Friern Barnet.

He said: 'It was a gruelling night with a total shooting time was 15 hours in freezing conditions, sunset to sunrise. '

With the help of a personal trainer and gruelling fitness regime, the pounds continued to slip off, losing a further 16 stone.

The recruits were put through a week of gruelling endurance tests.

In 1995, she became the youngest female athlete to complete the gruelling Hawaii Ironman Triathlon, and she was only 18 when she did so.

But the end to gruelling daylight abstinence and excessive night-time revelry is not the only relief.

America's first free municipal university, founded in 1847, offered its services to everyone bright enough to meet its gruelling standards.

He was plagued by self-doubt, and a gruelling schedule of touring and recording only exacerbated his increasing dependency on drugs.

But could a daily dose of rib-tickling comedy reap some of the benefits of a gruelling workout?

Life in space has glamorous, adventure-filled connotations, but the reality is a gruelling psychological challenge. . .

An assault fought amongst the rubble-strewn and treacherous environs of a ruined city is the most gruelling kind of battle.

It was a gruelling childhood and, later in life, Astaire would just say that he didn't want to talk about it.

The technique would save elderly patients from having to undergo gruelling operations to replace joints that have worn away.

This feature saves administrators from the gruelling task of finding the right configuration parameters that best suit a database.

It commemorates a trek more gruelling than the tourists who gawp at it can imagine.

The irony is that Arsenal are presently viable contenders as they enter a set of gruelling matches.

Even though they finished their gruelling world tour just two months ago, the group are working harder than ever on their "new direction" .

The gruelling hour- long A Main event is the ultimate test of both driver and machine .

Studying interactions is gruelling and time-consuming work.

Last week, in the biggest surprise of all, Brazil retreated in its gruelling fight to limit the real's appreciation.

Another level was a gruelling coin dash, which has already muscled its way to my top moments of 2010 before the game is even out.

leads to a gruelling process.

Millions of poor township residents also currently face long, gruelling journeys to work in big cities.

THE future of air travel does not have to bring yet more queues, gruelling delays and growing pollution.

That was in the midst of Lebanon's gruelling civil war, from 1975 to 1990.

THE 97th Tour de France finishes on Sunday July 25th in Paris after 3, 642km (2, 263 miles) of cycling over 21 gruelling days.

More than two years of gruelling technical work laid the ground for the wartime conference of officials and finance ministers

the race became physically and mentally gruelling , strikingly beautiful and spectacular