Taking long to do

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This device you see then is merely a contrivance for producing these charges and microstates without the necessity for the time-consuming external stimulation.

An extremely time-consuming conflict is produced when what parents say is true does not seem to be true to the Adult.

The DSS argues that it can no longer afford such costly and time-consuming procedures.

This was far less time-consuming than attempting to break the codes at NSA using computers, a method known as brute force.

In a country like England, with its mines and stockyards and shipbuilding, its cotton mills and factories, canals would inevitably have given way to faster, more adaptable railways that could cut through mountains, climb hills, and cross valleys without the time-consuming and expensive business of locks filling and emptying, and the moving of tons of water.

After I finished bending the backs of the next two with my too-few clamps and they were setting, I could go back to the time-consuming work of the spokes and the diamond backplates with the inlaid initial H.

There was no way to predict which table Kiddie and Fahd would sit at, bugging every table would be expensive and time-consuming, and the sound from the fountain was just the sort of gentle white noise which is excellent for swamping microphones tuned to pick up distant conversations.

In between times, for a break, if harder work were really a break, I went back to the time-consuming chiseling of the insets for the diamond-shaped back-plate with the inlaid initial H.

With the tedious, time-consuming care of the most conservative of chemists, she had spent the past several days tenderly baking the water out of half a dozen of the corings drilled out of the Martian ground.

We are being deminiaturized now and that will be more time-consuming than the miniaturization, which took no more than three or four minutes.

Now he found himself faced with an enigma and a time-consuming search for the Japanese car carrier's boats.

Flying straight was time-consuming, but Zaranth could fly high enough-once they'd helped move the herd-to be cool and escape the insects.

But exploring appropriate premises was time-consuming, and with Thread continuing to fall, any outbound journeys had to be carefully timed and safe layover shelters built along the way.

She was sure Janey only wore a bikini because she was pregnantHelen worried too about the children well, mostly Marcus, and insisted on telephoning home every day from the local post office, which was extremely time-consuming and irritated the hell out of Rupert.

He knew he had a long weekend ahead, two and a half days of monotonous and time-consuming poring over cards, each bearing the basic details of one of the forty-five hundred public companies registered at Companies House in the City of London.