Sentence examples for taking up time from inspiring English sources

But every day presents a new obstacle, taking up time, eating up momentum.

Each time it moves to a different ledger, the money has a different identity, taking up time and potentially causing confusion.

If the N.H.L. is good for anything — aside from its cottage industry in defining which skull-rattling hits are dangerous and which are just boys being boys — it is good for taking up time.

The party leadership in Congress does not want to be landed with a decision it thinks the president should make, taking up time it would prefer to go to tax cuts.

Instead I've been taking up time talking about all the bits and pieces I have around me, and I haven't even mentioned the magnifying glass or the Post-it notes or the worry beads.

Lister's pitch for more frontline services funding is thus: "If you can invest $10,000 into Zac in a year, if that gets him off the street, into stable accommodation, working and paying taxes – not committing crimes and taking up time and money through the court system – you're saving another $50,000 because he's not the person he was.

So that takes up time too".

So we have something that takes up no time, but takes up time, at the same time.

"I need something to take up time this summer.

Not activities that take up time while you wait for death.

But Dr. Arilotta said the dispute had dampened teacher morale and taken up time.