Sentence examples for took valuable from inspiring English sources

In that emergency, robots were sent to the plant but its technical experts had to be trained to use them, which took valuable time.

Iraqi women, often fed up with the violence in their neighborhoods, could be persuaded to provide information, but first we had to bridge the gender gap, build rapport and earn their trust, all of which took valuable time".

The burglars only took valuable handmade instruments, with some worth as much as £9,000.

The $224 million project, which took valuable agricultural land offline, evicting 366 farmers, was to generate 60,000 jobs.

A qualitative study of Lady Health Workers in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan illustrated that the addition of responsibilities not in their job descriptions, such as involvement in polio eradication campaigns, loading and unloading of medicines, and transportation of stocks, took valuable time away from their regular work [ 20].

Further, some control patients recruited from outpatient departments refused to complete the whole assessment as it was time-consuming and they had to return a long way to their homes, they did not benefit from the study and the examination took valuable time from work and family.

She said the building's staff did not stop the woman even as she took valuables from his apartment.

"The Korean partners complain the Americans are going to take valuable assets at far below equity".

"But they also take valuable properties off the city tax roll.

Yet fund-raising takes valuable time away from running the business.

"Big Yellow Taxi" took on an extra edge of exasperation at the way we blithely take valuable things for granted.