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time-consuming
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
time-consuming
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
too
▪ It would be far too time-consuming.
▪ Enquiry methods often seemed too time-consuming ....
very
▪ But it will be very time-consuming for secretarial staff if there are a great many.
▪ It is also a very time-consuming process as it of course doubles the viewing time to select what is to be edited.
▪ Moulding planes are excellent to work with, but the job of producing long lengths of moulding can be very time-consuming.
▪ Needless to say, starting that particular sewer again is very time-consuming, and the whole thing's against the clock!
▪ It can be very time-consuming and stressful.
■ NOUN
process
▪ Starting the time-consuming process of interviewing childminders all over again was a daunting prospect.
▪ It had to petition for enforcement to the U. S. Court of Appeals, which could be a very time-consuming process.
▪ It is also a very time-consuming process as it of course doubles the viewing time to select what is to be edited.
▪ The production of bibliographies and handbooks is a time-consuming process.
▪ It will be a time-consuming process.
▪ The disadvantage is that it is a time-consuming process and you will have a lot more teething problems when first running the system.
▪ Pattern making is a time-consuming process that must be repeated for every design prototype.
task
▪ But finding other, more generalized, illustrations is a time-consuming task.
▪ The first is to increase the ease and reduce the cost of performing previously expensive, time-consuming tasks.
▪ The time-consuming tasks of keeping families clean and fed were for the most part carried out with wholly inadequate equipment in depressing surroundings.
▪ This is a time-consuming task as the information on software is widely distributed between the printed and institutional sources.
▪ In the autumn, a time-consuming task is the raking up of leaves.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Caring for a disabled child is a time-consuming, but ultimately rewarding, job.
▪ Filling out the paperwork is a time-consuming process.
▪ Repairs can be time-consuming and expensive.
▪ We wanted to avoid costly, time-consuming legislation.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All this begging for money was time-consuming and degrading so I decided to concentrate on finding work.
▪ But it will be very time-consuming for secretarial staff if there are a great many.
▪ It is very laborious and time-consuming, involving the researcher full-time for at least a matter of months, and sometimes years.
▪ Starting the time-consuming process of interviewing childminders all over again was a daunting prospect.
▪ Taxi permits are limited and can be time-consuming to obtain.
▪ The reality is that a child is a time-consuming, all-engulfing creature who disrupts any semblance of pleasurable home life.
▪ This time-consuming procedure does not result in coherent programs of study, such as those at Sinclair.
Wiktionary
time-consuming

a. Requiring significant amounts of time.

WordNet
time-consuming

adj. of a task that takes time and patience

Usage examples of "time-consuming".

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.