‘I've only been grindingly poor for a couple years, and now I have what would, I guess, be called a ‘good job.’’
‘York, such a pleasant place to live now, was a grim, impoverished city of slums and open sewers where - for the poor who had few job opportunities - life was grindingly hard, says Keith.’
‘The reality of the life so glamorised in the Hollywood Western was one of grindingly hard work and constantly struggling against the natural elements.’
‘But the years have passed and, while the landscape remains harsh, it is not as grindingly poor as it once was.’
‘When I have accidentally fallen into work of this sort, I've found it grindingly difficult and often baffling.’
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