Sentence examples for an expensive amount of time from inspiring English sources

The phrase "an expensive amount of time" is not commonly used in written English and may sound awkward.
It could be used when discussing the high cost associated with time spent on a particular task or project, but it may be clearer to use different phrasing.
Example: "Investing in this project requires an expensive amount of time, which could impact our budget."
Alternatives: "a costly amount of time" or "a significant investment of time".

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Ninety seconds is an expensive amount of time on television, though, so more marketers are eyeing quick hits.

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We spend expensive amounts of time evaluating the fundamentals of the companies we own.

"Because the things that matter most for infant and child health in rural Colombia aren't expensive, but require a substantial amount of time — such as breast-feeding, bringing clean water from far away, taking your child to a distant health clinic for free vaccinations — infant and child mortality rates rise".

Despite that the recent development of next generation sequencing (NGS) techniques has facilitated the de novo development of SSRs, this task is still quite expensive and requires a substantial amount of time [ 5].

This is expensive and it takes a significant amount of time to get the fab up and running.

Keeping it small was important, because shooting in VR, with rigs like the upcoming Lucid kit, is not only expensive but takes up a ridiculous amount of time.

3D-based face recognition techniques can be subdivided into two categories: firstly, methods based on 3D scans of the face [22, 23] that perform well regardless the pose variation but require very specific and expensive devices together with a large amount of time to generate the 3D model of the face.

The Model 3 quickly outsold other big players like the Nissan Leaf and Renault Zoe, despite being more expensive and only available for a short amount of time.

On the other hand, a dedicated module for semantic processing would require an evolutionarily expensive process unlikely to occur in such a short amount of time.

A field survey would take a similar amount of time to OBIA but was more than twice as expensive due to the safety requirement of having two people working in the field.

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