The phrase "a considerable waste of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to express that something is a significant or substantial misuse of resources, time, or effort.
Example: "The project turned out to be a considerable waste of money and manpower."
Alternatives: "a significant waste of" or "a substantial waste of".
The accolades for it from the 1824 salon emboldened him to renounce commissioned portraiture, declaring it "a considerable waste of time".
If the rattled and insecure Iranian leadership is lying when it says it has no intention of developing nuclear weapons, or if it undergoes a conversion from that position (triggered perhaps by an Israeli air strike), it will find, like all other nuclear-armed states, that the bombs are essentially useless and a considerable waste of time, effort, money and scientific talent.
This solution, of course, is very detrimental to the economy of the production system because of the high hydraulic losses across the choke that cause a considerable waste of energy.
Novices make two errors that quickly reveal their lack of life experience and their lack of understanding, and lead to a considerable waste of time.
This study identified a considerable waste of resources in interventional trials related to patients undergoing surgery.
Often clinical trials with participants diagnosed with schizophrenia are terminated prematurely because of recruitment challenges resulting in a considerable waste of resources in the form of time, funding, and the participants' efforts.
Since it needs to be removed at the post processing stage of fabrication, it is a considerable waste in terms of material, energy and time employed for their construction.
Our findings demonstrate that optimization of this reaction, particularly in terms of reactant ratios, can represent a significant increase in the conjugation efficiency and prevent considerable waste of resources.
This does not happen at present.Repeated reports from parliamentary watchdogs have highlighted the considerable waste of resources that is endemic in the system.
Under wet tropical climate, leaching results in considerable waste of N. Fertilization management aims at maintaining soil mineral N at the optimal level for banana nutrition throughout the year but it does not take into account variations in crop N demand or N supply through mineralization of crop residues.
