Sentences with phrase «of hard graft»

Burnley drew their final home game of the season against Stoke City, perhaps summing up their campaign with lots of hard graft but little cutting edge.

Tonight we had out Executive and I remember why I love M & M. All I promise them is months and months of hard graft but we all sense that this is our time and that we will gain council seats and that the parliamentary seat is within our grasp.

A well - liked industry workhorse whose decades of hard graft had hitherto met with little reward — give or take an Emmy for ropey psychic drama series Medium — Arquette now finds herself taking every gong in sight for her deft, disarming and finally heart - crushing work as a similarly long - suffering, taken - for - granted mother of two in Boyhood, Richard Linklater's critically beloved time - lapse experiment and perceived Best Picture frontrunner.

After five years of hard graft earning her MD and another five years working all of God's hours as a Pediatrician, she decided it was time for a change and returned to her first love, writing.

BS, Ozil has never shown a glimmer of hard graft.

The million - dollar question, though, is which method provides the biggest pay - off from those hours of hard graft.

The reason I did this was that Smashwords paid me nothing in 2 years of hard graft on my part... sold so little, Smashwords haven't paid what they owe me.

But it is a costly process and a lot of hard graft, so never sign up for one because you can't think of anything else to do with your life.

WHEN David Leadbeater won last year's inaugural Kindle UK Storyteller Award, with his Indiana Jones - inspired romp The Relic Hunters, it was the culmination of three decades of hard graft.