This is not caused by any natural defect, but first for want of election, when you, having a large and fruitful mind, should not so much labour what to speak as to find what to leave unspoken.
Give me in exchange for this land as much labour as it has received from me.
In these cases the labour and the results of the labour are obvious, but no cultivated land exists anywhere that is not the product of much labour--certainly much more labour than Mr. George seems to have any idea of.
Value is thus resolved into so much labour, or what is the same thing, so much time consumed in labour, mental and manual, upon the commodity.
Envy, trouble, anxiety, as much labour to maintain their place with credit, as to get it at first.
It cost me much labour, and many days, before all these things were brought to perfection, and therefore I must go back to some other things which took up some of my thoughts.
Watt was very averse to giving up the tables which had cost him so much labour to prepare; but Boulton more wisely urged the adoption of the plan that would work most smoothly, and get rid of the heartburnings on both sides.
Boulton began to fear that the coining presses which he had erected with so much labour, contrivance, and expenditure of money, in anticipation of the expected Government contract, would remain comparatively idle after all.
You ask: 'Would you really say that cloth and muslin were not dear in India where they cost four or five times as much labour as in England?
Did you ever believe that I thought fifty oak trees would cost as much labour as the stone wall?
If a quarter of corn could be produced a century ago with half as much labour as is necessary at present, Mr. Ricardo said that the value of a quarter of corn had doubled.
The greater part of readers, instead of blaming us for passing trifles, will wonder that on mere trifles so much labour is expended, with such importance of debate, and such solemnity of diction.
But I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to be right.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "much labour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
