11.   Maintaining its aging older fleet was costlier and more time consuming than TWA had anticipated and led to canceled flights and poor on-time performance.

12.   Nation-building is more time consuming than winning the war.

13.   Some ecological risks, they say, may be so difficult and time consuming to assess as to be effectively unknowable.

14.   Some schools lack working fire alarms or fire doors, or have other serious violations that are costly and time consuming to correct.

15.   Such information is often difficult and time consuming to gather.

16.   The process is deadly boring, time consuming, tedious and expensive.

17.   When you get older, getting ready for sex is so time consuming.

18.   Prosecutors already abandoned an effort to break the company in two, saying it would be too difficult and time consuming to help competition.