The encounter with art is precious, and so it costs us in terms of time, effort, and focus.
These "search-and-destroy" operations were costly in terms of time, effort, and matériel, but often disappointing in terms of results.
Features such as this – and the "retweet" button in Twitter – are examples of something that networked technology does well: it reduces the "transaction costs" (in terms of time, effort, hassle and expense) involved in doing something.
"The country, the government, the prime minister have invested far too much in terms of time, effort, imagination, political initiative for them to give up on the deal," said Prof. Amitabh Mattoo, vice chancellor of Jammu University, who served on a committee that advised the prime minister on the nuclear package.
This may cost a little more, in the round, in terms of time, effort, salaries, bonuses etc.
The costs to the person who can't see reason, in terms of time, effort, and lost opportunities for happiness, can be enormous.
Rather, I mean that the procurement of food has become too "cheap" in terms of time and effort.
The design of a clock distribution network requires tremendous resources in terms of time and effort to achieve optimized results.
And both of these requirements have high demands in terms of time and effort.
Manually generating and labeling the training data is naturally an expensive solution in terms of time and effort.
Moreover, errors can be costly in terms of time and effort and this could have dramatic effects on a study with vulnerable subjects as participants.
