The phrase "a consuming hour" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a period of time that is intensely engaging or absorbing, often in a way that feels overwhelming.
Example: "The lecture was so fascinating that it turned into a consuming hour, leaving the audience captivated until the very end."
Alternatives: "an engrossing hour" or "a captivating hour".
Participants described an "exponential" increase in administration and bureaucracy, consuming hours of time with limited perceived benefit to patients, leading to work regularly being undertaken outside normal working hours.
You are not the only one who, while consuming hours of the O'Reilly Factor, returns from the No Spin Zone, horrified, wondering about the sort of insane world your child might inherit.
Ms. Meyers said she has wanted to direct for a while but held off because the consuming hours would have taken her away from her and Mr. Shyer's two daughters.
So she made her way home and then returned to the store: three trips consuming one hour before earning her first dime of the day.
Stainless steel is three times harder than bronze, and bringing its surface to a mirror finish is vastly time consuming: 80 hours for finishing a single ram's head, for instance.
According to the site, more than 1 billion unique users visit YouTube every month, consuming 6bn hours of video content, almost an hour for every person on Earth.
Up to 180 samples can be analysed per hour, consuming only minute quantities of reagents.
For second-order marginals,3 however, we used only five replications, because the computation of these residuals for a single data set is very time consuming (several hours).
We need art and creativity in our world and with the average American consuming 4 hours of TV a day, we need it to come by way of our televisions and computers.
In addition, a PCR method detects only a narrow class of phages and is both expensive and time consuming (several hours).
