Sentence examples for took up time from inspiring English sources

What is more, he said, it took up time "that they really needed to spend making sure their suppliers were going to get things here on time".

It wasn't just that pestering their friends and family for money was awkward, or that the constant reminders and updates they sent out via e-mail and Facebook took up time they could have spent in the studio.

When his role expanded and he took on greater responsibility, his intense scrutiny of subordinates became an even bigger obstacle because it took up time he should have been devoting to more-strategic pursuits.

The leisure of this family is nothing like the idle hunting and jousting that took up time at court ("Hunt, sing and dance/My heart is set/All goodly sport," goes a song written by Henry VIII).

Forty or fifty years ago, parents either tolerated their children reading comic books or outright discouraged it because they "took up time that could be used reading real literature".

Despite promises of a paycheck, I worked there for a long time without any compensation, the work was not challenging enough for me and took up time that I could have been dedicating to honing my skills or bettering myself in some way.

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.

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

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