time-consuming process
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftime-consumingandprocess
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time-consuming
adjective
uk/ˈtaɪm.kənˌsjuː.mɪŋ/us/ˈtaɪm.kənˌsuː.mɪŋ/
A time-consuming task takes a lot of time ...
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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition oftime-consumingandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It is widely recognised that this is an enormously complex andtime-consumingprocess.
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This process of investigation—and a verytime-consumingprocessit is—is something on which we are constantly engaged.
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This solicitor, who is a friend of mine, assures me that conveyancing is a long andtime-consumingprocess.
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It is atime-consumingprocess, but it is proving to be very productive.
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We must consider that carefully, as police, probation and housing officers must go through the time-consumingprocessof preparing and supporting witnesses for court appearances.
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This approach avoids the difficult andtime-consumingprocessof getting the domain expert to define why a particular rule is interesting.
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However, syntactic annotation is a labor intensive andtime-consumingprocess, and it is difficult to find linguistically annotated text in sufficient quantities.
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This level allows sufficient room for local variation while at the same time avoiding thetime-consumingprocessof collecting nominal data.
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Although learning the work method was valuable for improving participants' qualification and would be useful for future work, it was atime-consumingprocess.
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Instead of having to wait for the extensive,time-consumingprocessof generating evidence, early introduction is combined with obligatory participation in registration and research.
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In most institutions, this process proved to be a bureaucratically lengthy,time-consumingprocess.
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A technical sketch can then be generated automatically; this is usually atime-consumingprocess.
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At this point, we begin atime-consumingprocessthat is acceptable for learning in a compiler but would not be reasonable at run time.
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Founding a journal is a lengthy andtime-consumingprocess, involving the input of many people.
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However, even this was inadequate, and to begin with we went through thetime-consumingprocessof observing classes and giving as much help as we could.
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It is a tedious andtime-consumingprocess.
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This can be determined by conducting comprehension experiments on representative users, which can be atime-consumingprocess, but unfortunately we do not know of any reliable shortcuts.
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At present, there exists no alternative to the laborious andtime-consumingprocessof shelling the sunflower seeds individually by hand before loading them into the press.
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I fully understand that this must have been a very difficult andtime-consumingprocess.
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That is atime-consumingprocessand often time is of great importance with projects of this kind.
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