"It's a very time-consuming effort to get the required state paperwork done, and a lot of people just don't want to bother."

City officials said the program has been a success, but they doubt they can expand such a time-consuming and labor-intensive effort citywide.

But how is this possible, since most television and movie viewers are familiar with dramatic, time-consuming and usually unsuccessful efforts by police authorities to trace calls?

That time-consuming effort made the pledge on the covert-action records impossible to keep, the agency says.

Then came the time-consuming effort to learn what they had in common.

The old system emphasized time-consuming and often unsuccessful efforts at speech, and the newer system stresses mastery of sign language.

"More difficult and time-consuming efforts, like those discussed in the Blaze paper are very unlikely to be employed."

Like shelling and peeling a pound of fava beans for a dip, it is time-consuming but worth the effort.

"That meant rebuilding them from scratch" - a time-consuming effort.

It is an expensive and time-consuming effort because asbestos is often found in materials that are difficult to remove, like wall covering and joint casings.