Sentence examples for wasteful space from inspiring English sources

(For once, that wasteful space comes in handy).

If there was ever an opportunity to seize to redesign cities to be greener with more public parks, promenades and tree-lined walkways, and to reclaim wasteful space for housing construction, this is it.

Your ratio of 1/3 first class, 1/3 standard and 1/3 guard's van is rather wasteful of space.

This was wasteful of space and made the transition from one bit to another noisy, as the peak of one was closely followed by the peak of the next.

It was an elaborate ornamental type probably easier to write than to cut into metal molds and it was difficult to read and wasteful of space (hence of expensive paper).

And soon the fashion shifted towards the building of high-rise flats rather than houses, since it was quicker, easier and less wasteful of space to stack barracks vertically rather than on the ground.

Boris Johnson said the old junctions were "relics of the Sixties" were "atrociously designed and wasteful of space".

Upon publishing a map, which identifies the 33 intersections to undergo improvements, London mayor Boris Johnson said the old junctions were "relics of the '60s" and were "atrociously designed and wasteful of space".

In this city of more than 13 million, famed for its diminutive living spaces and coffin-like hotel rooms, Mr. Jennings began to think of the situation as what the Japanese call "mottainai" or a wasteful use of space.

Some satellite designs were very successful for example, at Orlando and Tampa in Florida, U.S. but to some degree the concept has fallen out of favour, having been found difficult to adapt to the changing size of aircraft and wasteful of apron space.

A plan that included a little bit of everything, and then some: say, raising the retirement age; reducing the huge deductions for mortgage interest and health insurance; closing corporate tax loopholes; cutting pensions of some public workers, as Republican governors favor; scrapping wasteful military and space projects; doing more to hold down Medicare spending growth.