The country is large and travel is difficult and time consuming.

VOA: standard.2009.11.05

A DNA-based vaccine wouldn't have to be grown in chicken eggs, doing away with the time-consuming and finicky manufacturing process of the current flu vaccine.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The provisional voter list was originally scheduled for publication in late August, but processing registration data for the country's some 6.5 million identified voters proved time-consuming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29