Sentence examples for an unproductive task from inspiring English sources

The high inter-individual variability in urinary profiles and their complexity make any attempt at visual comparison of these spectra an unproductive task.

An audit of 20 years of data, he said, could be a colossal and unproductive task.

Due to the size and complexity of 3D models, rendering process becomes a tedious, time-consuming and unproductive task on a single machine.

According to the Court, review of legal issues under a de novo standard would require the courts of appeals to invest time and energy in the unproductive task of determining "not what the law now is, but what the Government was substantially justified in believing it to have been". Id., at 561, 108 S.Ct.

In the results of the workload challenge, 56% of respondents in the sample analysis said that recording, inputting, monitoring and analysing data was the most unnecessary and unproductive task added to their to-do list, while 53% cited excessive detail and frequency required when marking.

Because most technological mediums serve as a gateway to both productive and unproductive tasks, students are likely to engage in both over the course of a class period and struggle to resist temptation.

Too much of a salesperson's day-to-day activities are focused on repetitive and unproductive tasks.

Australian workers waste 18 percent of the week doing unproductive tasks.

As numerous studies have shown, it is not workload but what teachers perceive as the increase in unnecessary and unproductive tasks that is the main problem.

Part of the return from the efficiency gain comes from the fact that it frees workers from relatively unproductive tasks—haggling with consumers over rust protection to do something else.

The time spent with unproductive tasks will, however, consequently limit the time available for productive tasks.