Simply finding dependable editors, book designers, cover designers, printers and other suppliers is amazingly time-consuming, especially the first time you do it.
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"That meant rebuilding them from scratch" -- a time-consuming effort.
Supposedly the Storm was set to launch with OS version 4.7.0.82, but due to a last-minute security glitch every last handset had to be downgraded to .65 -- a surely time-consuming task that resulted in many fewer handsets in-store and online for release.
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However, raising grass-fed cattle is time-consuming and requires large open spaces, variables that raise its price.
The business of cranking out casual games--snack-sized alternatives to time-consuming fare like "World of Warcraft"--is mushrooming.
The problem with servers and software, however, is that they are in constant need of upgrading--an expensive and time-consuming process.
Its immediate objective should be to validate and bring to bear automated techniques for addressing in the most cost-effective and least time-consuming manner possible the most daunting challenge: Making the Nation's civilian (government and private sector) and military mainframe computers Year 2000-compliant.
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"Traditionally, there have been a lot of reasons why organizations don't want to monitor -- too expensive, too time-consuming and too difficult to do, " Kugler said.
The immediate consequences of the election is that coalition-building will be difficult and time-consuming, he said.
Some council members are feeling a sense of urgency because its slower-paced summer work calendar and time-consuming budget hearings on the horizon.
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But selling second-hand contracts piecemeal has proved time-consuming and costly.
For example, access no longer has to be negotiated case-by-case, a hugely expensive and time-consuming requirement.
For companies, it offers an efficient way to pre-interview candidates and cuts down on time-consuming in-person meetings and inefficient phone screenings.
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Developing cross-cultural savvy can be difficult and time-consuming.
Many other conversions have been slowed down by environmental clean-ups that have been more expensive and time-consuming than expected.
If barrel-aging is now judged too costly and time-consuming, how long can it be before someone engineers a way to do away with the greater toil and expense of grape-growing altogether?
Land in cities is pricey, competition can be fierce for the best-located spots and the approvals process can be time-consuming.
Law firm websites were underdeveloped and out-of-date, and locating and vetting legal experts was time-consuming and inefficient.
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In fact, there were quite a lot of D-I-Y projects, which surprised us since they seemed time-consuming and we had said we were on a tight schedule.
In finance, standards can take years to define as working groups from banks, securities firms and depositories meet repeatedly to hash out what needs to be in a message and ways to make it machine-readable so the communication can be handled by computers with straight-through processing (STP) and not require any expensive, time-consuming and error-inducing human intervention.
Though both Germany and China have signed the Bern Convention, which in theory extends U.S.-style copyright protections to those countries, suing abroad is a costly and time-consuming process, says Gregory Rutchik, head of the Arts and Technology Law Group.
After the daily dawn-to-dusk fast, comes the feast, and even the most career-minded single women are dragooned back into the kitchen to help prepare the time-consuming harira bean soup and the traditional pancakes and sweets: melaoui, baghira, chebbakia, sfouf.
The project got the attention of the food-service industry, which is looking for testing methods that are less expensive and time-consuming than taste-testing or laboratory work.
West believes both stars and theatre-goers see Sheffield as "a very proper alternative to the mad and fickle, time-consuming and expensive, London theatre".
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Balloons can work but are time-consuming, and they are slaves to wind and pesky guide wires.
He has time for his career, golf and Twitter, but online dating is just too time-consuming.
But a sequence of time-consuming partnerships kept Warwickshire on course for a big total.
It can be difficult, expensive, and time-consuming to break into the elite group of foreclosure investors.
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Marvin Sands skipped crucial, time-consuming steps in production, but spiked the product with 190-proof brandy.
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