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They were less likely to report symptoms of depression than those in the other facilities, for instance, and less likely to be bored or lonely.

Not only is this a boring and awful way to treat children, it makes no sense educationally.

Chefs such as Delia Smith, Nigel Slater, Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay made the public realise that cooking - and eating - didn't have to be a boring thing.

She tried several jobs, but they seemed very boring to her.

Many of them consider it boring and old-fashioned.

Consumers are becoming increasingly bored with what companies have to offer: A survey of 28,000 consumers in 28 countries released by Accenture found consumers are not as excited about technology as they once were.

The boring classroom activities.

They grew bored of each other.

Another 15 minutes passed and I grew bored.

But soon after retirement, the golfing, the fishing, the reading and all of the other pastimes become as boring as the jobs they left.

Executives feel bored with too many specific elements of Shakespeare's plays.

I have not tried reading my newspaper out loud on a train, but, several years ago, I read some chapters from Harry porter to my bored and noisy children.

If you're tired of wandering around the gym wasting time and becoming bored, you can attend an upbeat group fitness class that'll keep your workout on track.

In department stores, the women's shoe section is generally next to the cosmetics sections：while the shop assistant is going back to find the right size shoe, bored customers are likely to wander over cosmetics they might want to try later.

In the former case, we keep putting off a task because it has either too boring or too difficult.

No matter how boring it is now, education will help you be a productive member in society.

On a summer evening in beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit.

She became a really boring person.

Since his regular job was boring, I asked him why he just didn't do his sideline full-time.

Working in a restaurant was just too boring.

Likewise,automation should eventually boost productivity, stimulate demand by driving down prices, and free workers from hard, boring work.