Any recovery will be slow and protracted, a long grind.

For a match that before kick- off had the look of a long grind amid a swirling wind, things got lively quickly.

Over the long grind of a title race, should you trust the team whose goalscorer can't miss, or the one whose finisher keeps leaving big chances out there?

I miss the boring bits, the long grind, the days when nothing much happens.

The fervor of the early days in the reorganized militias wore off in the long grind of an eight-year war.