(1) It was a cunning piece of detective work.

(2) It took a lot of detective work to discover the cause of the problem.

(3) We are going to have to do some detective work on this.

(4) After a lot of detective work, I managed to find out where he was living.

(5) Real detective work can be pretty dull.

(6) It takes some detective work to trace the symptom back to its cause.

(7) Brilliant detective work with a little luck tossed in to catch the savvy killer.

(8) It takes a bit of detective work to trace the symptom back to the cause.

(9) Other queries involve a spot of detective work, such as trying to identify a particular type of fibreboard needed for refurbishment work.

(10) So it would take more years of dogged detective work by a handful of investigators to connect the dots.

(11) At the same time(), the medical detective work threw up new uncertainties.

(12) Much slow and painstaking geological detective work is needed to make correlations such as these, but the results can be very valuable.

(13) Detective work is about a lot of things, mostly it's about not giving up.

(14) It took no great detective work to work out where he was, however.

(15) Are you fascinated by criminology, forensics, and detective work?

(16) Here's where the detective work and the fun begins.

(17) Despite careful detective work, many items have never been recovered.

(18) Finding the missing parts has been a lucky blending of good fortune and good detective work.

(19) He had always imagined that the key to good detective work was a close observation of details.

(20) Then we went up to my office to do some serious detective work.

(21) The arrival of numerical grades added new twists to detective work.

(22) In fact tying a pollution to its source can be a tricky piece of detective work.

(23) Then he could do his own bit of private detective work.

(24) Drawn to the subject via a footnote, McKillop did some literary detective work to uncover Deeks's story.

(25) But Kleinwort Benson, an investment bank, has done a spot of detective work.

(26) And if a new admin were to inherit our craftily configured server, it would take quite a bit of detective work in order to even begin to understand how we configured everything.

(27) He made it sound not like war but a humanitarian mission with some strong-arm detective work thrown in.

(28) The clues are too sketchy so it's hard to carry out our detective work.

(29) This morning I got her to do a bit of detective work.