Each year this time, scores of penultimate year undergraduates put in great amounts of effort preparing for their Master's degree application — taking their GMAT, GRE, TOEFL, IELTS; updating and perfecting their resume; looking for referees for reference letters; writing personal statements and application essays. (careerdigital.com)
There are several meanings of pain, one being the obvious, but another being putting in a great amount of effort... that is the definition I chose. (hypnobabies.com)
With variable - effort steering doing its job, this really transforms the coupe into something that takes very little effort to drive, not to imply that it takes a great amount of effort to drive a Cadillac along the empty roads you see in car commercials. (autoweek.com)