backbreaking in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Many walked off the land after years of backbreaking work.
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Before that, books about cooking largely admitted what every homemaker knew to be true: that feeding people was backbreaking work, and then you died.
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It was backbreaking labour that went on day and night.
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Then, with another click of a button, the gear moves back to the rooftop, eliminating any backbreaking labour.
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In the long run, getting water proves a problem, and dragging it all the way from the distant spring becomes a backbreaking experience.
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They travel across barren rocky ground in sweltering heat to perform this backbreaking task.
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But life was more than just the backbreaking work of picking cotton and tilling the vegetable patch.
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Working conditions varied from backbreaking work for young local children, ages 13 and up, to backbreaking exploitation of migrants.
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This makes harvesting clams a backbreaking task.
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Three weeks following germination, the 6-8 inch stalks are picked and replanted at greater separation, in a backbreaking manual procedure.
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