time-consuming task
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftime-consumingandtask
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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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task
noun
uk/tɑːsk/us/tæsk/
a piece of work to be done, especially one done regularly, unwillingly, or ...
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(Definition oftime-consumingandtaskfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This might be expected because the teacher had to write to each student each week, and writing is a moretime-consumingtask.
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Defining an appropriate geometric mesh model that ensures low approximation errors and avoids unnecessary computational overhead is a very difficult andtime-consumingtaskbased mainly on the user's experience.
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As the building of an expert system for fault diagnosis is generally a complicated and time-consumingtask, an expert shell is very useful and efficient.
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The assessment of all probabilities required tends to be, if not the hardest, then certainly the mosttime-consumingtaskin building a belief network.
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Thistime-consumingtaskis not always recognized fully, and the editors deserve credit for ensuring that the text is grammatically correct.
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Finally, polishing and restructuring the final development to get an honourable-looking piece of mathematics is also atime-consumingtask, but a conceptually interesting one.
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Inevitably this is a difficult andtime-consumingtask.
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But in the great majority of cases that is unlikely to be a verytime-consumingtask.
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Production of the revised traffic forecasts is a complex andtime-consumingtask.
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It is a difficult andtime-consumingtask, as we have been reminded.
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This must be proving an immenselytime-consumingtask.
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It will be a difficult andtime-consumingtask.
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That is atime-consumingtaskand it will demand staff.
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However, it would be a huge andtime-consumingtask.
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To find the exact orientation for these boundary points is a verytime-consumingtask.
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As a result, adjudicating these disagreements is a laborious andtime-consumingtask.
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The manual excision of all the concatenative units was the mosttime-consumingtask.
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Though this is a tedious andtime-consumingtask, there is no conceptual difficulty in doing that.
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This is a tedious andtime-consumingtask.
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