Airwash also does away with the expensive, time-consuming task of going to the dry cleaner.

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When rifling through your inventory, picking a lock, or doing any other small time-consuming task, you basically lose temporary control over your character.

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Search has also replaced the time and energy we once used to find resources with the time-consuming task of evaluating all the sources that are out there.

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"The significant drain on time and resources companies face when scheduling and carrying out interviews means for many, it can be an expensive and time-consuming task, " says Matson.

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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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Since the regime made no appreciable effort to distinguish which contained high explosives and which were loaded with chemical or biological agents, establishing exactly what is in such facilities is a time-consuming and dangerous task.

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When asked why, he replied that he had once tried to evaluate one of these exotic securities but found the task immensely time-consuming and horrifically complicated.

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And while it probably goes without saying that at least a few still fetch coffee for the higher-ups, a fair number of administrative and executive assistants would probably look askance at a boss who asked them to stop answering phones, planning for meetings and dealing with the time-consuming minutiae of keeping an office functioning to do a personal task like that.

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