Sentence examples for painstaking development from inspiring English sources

As computers were rare and extremely expensive, inefficient programs were a greater financial problem than the lengthy and painstaking development of machine-language programs.

"Its approval underlines the importance of a new generation of cancer drugs targeted at specific molecular features of tumours – drugs which after years of painstaking development are now making their way to patients.

After ten years of painstaking development, an industry-backed outfit called Ibiquity Digital is about to begin enabling CD-quality digital broadcasts alongside today's analog transmissions (see graphic).

The billion-year time lag between the earliest, "proto-subduction" and the full onset of plate tectonics can be explained by the slow, painstaking development of weak zones within the plates, he proposes.

His extraordinary vision and passion for dance and painstaking development of the company he founded in 1967, with the late Karel Shook, is recognized and applauded by audiences around the globe.

Codex documents have important roles as templates for national regulations, or as the basis for international trade agreements, and they have a distinctive authority and credibility that is derived from their painstaking development of a consensus in a multistep procedure that may take many years.

The share of their annual income that rich countries devote to aid year-in, yeaid year-inort for the slow, painstaking business of development—has stagnated.

"This machine", he says, pointing to a champagne-coloured lion cub that is the fruit of six years of costly and painstaking research and development, "is completely useless".As it happens, uselessness is selling well this Christmas.

Gina Bianchini's second attempt at social networking for small communities, Mightybell, has fully joined the niche communication fray today, opening its "social for small groups" product up to all after two years of painstaking and iterative development.

Likewise, painstaking studies over development demonstrate that a single gene (e.g., RC3) is regulated by thyroid hormone in some – but not all – regions of the brain, and at some – but not all – times during development [ 28].

The new drug in question, Fevipiprant – developed by Novartis – will be the end result of many years of painstaking and costly research and development, yet Novartis is not credited for this innovation until 582 words into a 942-word article, and, yes, that's off the front page.