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The phrase "a waste of effort" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea that an endeavor has not been worthwhile or is of no use. For example, "Buying a new car instead of repairing the one we had turned out to be a waste of effort."
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To do so would be a waste of effort and send the wrong message.
In Babbage's case, it would all be a waste of effort anyway.
He said Mr. Moerdler's "blubbering" was "just a waste of time and a waste of effort".
An assembly reduced to electoral machinations would be a waste of effort.
"There is no point going in there and being aggressive, that's a waste of effort".
First, what some single women imagine may not be feasible and may actually be a waste of effort.
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Lots of valuable academic software development projects fail because of one or more of these reasons, resulting in a waste of efforts.
Conclusions While some independent replication of meta-analyses by different teams is possibly useful, the overall picture suggests that there is a waste of efforts with many topics covered by multiple overlapping meta-analyses.
The Bonds verdict was almost the perfect conclusion to this story, incomplete, a bit baffling and entirely unsatisfying, no matter which side of the this-is-a-waste-of-government-effort fence you sat on.
"It's a waste of time, effort and money to ban something like this".
It would be equally wrong to write off the summit as a waste of time, effort and money as some commentators have very narrowly done.
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