| Today, tourists would not be visiting Egypt were it not for the hard, backbreaking work of the quarrymen so many thousands of years ago. |
| The new bridge will cut their backbreaking journey to Kandahar by five kilometers. |
| Their equipment is very basic and the backbreaking work in the heavy heat from sunrise to sunset, team or family. |
| For many millions the tools and technology they use are as old as their toil is backbreaking. |
| In sub-Saharan Africa, millions of labour hours are wasted, especially by women, who are often subjected to this backbreaking work. |
| The work I did in the camp was so backbreaking that I lost tissue in my spine. |
