The phrase "attention it takes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the amount of focus or concentration required for a particular task or activity.
Example: "The attention it takes to complete this puzzle is quite significant, as every piece must fit perfectly."
Alternatives: "the focus it requires" or "the concentration it demands".
People are starting to figure out that a premiere alone is not enough to get attention: it takes co-productions between companies, repeated performances, recordings.
An unfortunate aspect of the thirty or so modern-day screen adaptations of "Romeo and Juliet" is that they minimize the attention it takes to listen to the play; filmmakers tend to amp up the characters' knowing youthfulness, while jettisoning much of the script's literariness.
When I sense a phantom message buzzing in my leg, I find it hard not to think of Lanier's warning against how technology is eroding our better natures – or, at least, of the time and attention it takes to treat each other as more than a means to constant diversion and aggregation.
And the energy and the attention it takes away from any one relationship.
With a large head of unmanageable hair that requires constant attention, it takes Daphna less than a minute to signal to the audience that she is an emotionally damaged, dangerously manipulative young woman who has probably acquired every disgustingly dysfunctional habit she picked up from her mother's toxic personality.
It may not seem this way, but when you take care of your basic needs, you are telling yourself you deserve the time and attention it takes to practice self care.
This exhibition offers a crash course, although it is the kind of course that requires studious attention; it took me two hours to make my way through the more than 500 exhibits crammed into two barnlike spaces on the lower level of the museum.
The pain of being associated with one of English football's darkest nights rankles with Luton fans, but possibly not as much as the attention it took away from their feats later that decade.
"Attractive objects draw attention, and it takes mental energy to keep your attention focused when a desirable distractor is nearby," Oppenheimer told me in an email.
"I don't really have the time or attention span it takes to live aboard or sail long distances.
"This case has brought such worldwide attention that it takes that option off the table for the Nigerian government". Boko Haram has a propaganda arm, known as the "public enlightenment department".
