The phrase "a time consuming method" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a method or process that requires a significant amount of time to complete.
Example: "While the results were impressive, I found that it was a time consuming method that required careful planning."
Alternatives: "a lengthy process" or "a time-intensive approach".
However, this is a time consuming method of validation, and it leaves place for untested inputs that would fail.
DDH is technically challenging, labor intensive and a time consuming method [ 5, 6].
Direct visualization is a time consuming method, especially in early stages or in periods of severe leukopenia that follow A. phagocytophilum infection.
Tools lacking this capability would require one to manually perform the task one file at a time, resulting in a more time consuming method which is cumbersome for the user and more prone to errors.
Usually an iterative time consuming method is employed to solve the thermodynamic models.
Telomere erosion is a very peculiar (and time consuming) method to achieve cell cycle arrest.
The assay of these agents can be obtained by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) [ 39], which is unfortunately a very expensive and time consuming method [ 40– 40].
This is an indirect, expensive and time consuming method as the assessment can be made only after completion of weld and its subsequent inspection or testing.
It was also a very slow, unstable, and time consuming method, requiring two operators (Milburn and Ranasinghe 1996).
However, citations can also be investigated using the more time consuming method of a Cited Reference Search.
This was because 76% of the monographs in the WoS had at least one cited reference variant unlinked to their full record (this was 2.6 times more frequent than for the related journal articles), and this resulted in 26% of monograph citations being missed unless the much more time consuming method of a Cited Reference Search was used.
