Fashioning an anastomosis is typically a complex and time-consuming step in a surgical operation, but almost always crucial to the outcome of the procedure.

There were other, even more time-consuming steps to the CBC.

Of course, there's no avoiding this time-consuming step of writing a budget.

This is a time-consuming step, especially when large numbers of samples are processed.

Next, it is set aside to ripen, a time-consuming step known as culturing, which has a profound effect on the flavor.

Had they compared their recordings, they would have been on to the ruse much earlier, but there was no reason to take that time-consuming step.

For years, I believed this time-consuming step aided in browning.

But the Green Card application was an expensive, time-consuming step to take.

Such a feature could increase Internet sales substantially, since customers often bail out of transactions rather than go through several time-consuming steps to complete a purchase.

Red mercury was speculated to eliminate this costly and time-consuming step.