The phrase "outlay of time" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe the amount of time or energy that you have spent or will spend on a task or project. For example, "I've invested an outlay of time in this project that I don't want to waste."
But it is the biggest single outlay of time and energy for me in a week and if I had a job with long hours, or children to look after alone, I couldn't do it all the time.
SETTING out on the primary route, for whatever reasons a candidate and his staff sit down and figure out how they can make the best showing at the least risk for the most economic outlay of time and money.
What you're going to get back from that huge outlay of time and effort may not look like it was worth the investment.
The Manchester Guardian felt that the film's one serious drawback was that the story lacked the epic quality to justify the outlay of time, and found the second half which focuses on Scarlett's "irrelevant marriages" and "domestic squabbles" mostly superfluous, and the sole reason for their inclusion had been "simply because Margaret Mitchell wrote it that way".
Trapp notes that the fact that "100 grandiose history paintings [were included] in itself proclaimed a munificent government patronage", for aside from a few affluent competitors like Géricault, only those favoured by a major commission could afford the outlay of time, energy and money necessary for undertakings of this kind.
The outlay of time and labor to validate the disease association concerning a variant of uncertain significance (VUS) within the coding portion of a gene can be daunting and cost prohibitive [3], [4].
We are often asked for main-course recipes that can be served on what might be called "Champagne occasions," dishes with class that do not demand tedious outlays of time in the kitchen.
Then you can truly answer the question of whether you are committed enough to provide steep outlays of time and money to give your business the care it needs.
With each defensive campaign comes huge outlays of time and energy -- two vital resources that are hard to quantify in a campaign's bottom line.
There is no other feat of kitchen alchemy that achieves more praise and pleasure in exchange for the outlay of less time and effort than the simple baking of a cake!
These demographic differences could be explained by the fact that NWAHCS participants knew they were being recruited into a bio-medical cohort study with an outlay of personal time and effort required.
