The phrase "a labour intensive method" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a process or technique that requires a significant amount of manual work or effort.
Example: "The construction of the building was a labour intensive method, requiring many workers to complete the project on time."
Alternatives: "a laborious method" or "a work-intensive method".
Developed by Govert van Dam at Leiden University, the urine test device is lightweight and more user-friendly than the laboratory equipment used for the previously common Kato-Katz technique, which was a labour intensive method that relied on having trained technicians, reagents, microscopes and waste-management procedures.
These advances transform chemical denaturation from a labour intensive method into a mainstream tool likely to have widespread impact on multiple applications in academic and commercial arenas.
It was a labour-intensive method of land management, but the controlled flooding of the meadows, with the deposition of silt from the water, enabled the land to produce two crops of hay per year, as well as grazing for sheep and cattle.
Thus, we have also used a simpler, but more labour intensive method, of carrying out the entire analysis at the probeset level, and relying on visualization and manual curation of the results in order to distinguish splicing and expression differences between samples.
However, due to the inherent difficulty of measuring SGD accurately, its quantification at any particular location is a relatively slow process often involving multiple labour intensive methods.
Thus, the key to reducing prophylactic insecticide applications may lie with improved, less labour intensive methods of pollen beetle monitoring.
However culturing seaweed in an European offshore environment will require the development of more mechanised technologies for outplanting and harvest than the labour intensive methods on which the large-scale culture in Asia currently depends.
Pre-warning letters are simple to administer and relatively low cost compared with more labour intensive methods to increase response rates, such as telephone reminders or face-to-face visits.
High risk alloimmunised women are tested with a labour intensive low throughput method, which is unsuitable for mass screening.
Although sensitive and powerful, 2-D PAGE is a labour intensive and low throughput method, has the drawback of selecting against proteins which are extremely acidic or basic, and there is a detection bias toward highly abundant proteins.
Medical chart review is a relatively labour-intensive method.
