- - Upshot of job needing much travelling, searching etc.
- - Physical phase of research
- - Tiring and tedious gathering of basic information etc
- - Investigator's data gathering
- - Out-of-the-office detective duty
- - Much of a detective's job
- - Tedious detective duty
- - Reporter's routine
- - Tedious time-consuming tasks
- - Long and tedious effort involved in gathering basic information
- - Preparatory effort
- - Old-fashioned investigation
- - Pounding the pavement, say
- - Research that can't be done on-line
- - Preparatory research
- - Preliminary investigation
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