labour-intensive

Conventional wisdom is that such interventions on a large scale are high cost, labour-intensive, bureaucratic nightmares.

The limits of 'big government' 2011

The demise of cheap energy is going to bring the collapse of late-capitalist bourgeois civilisation, and with it great hardship associated with the transition to a more austere and labour-intensive way of life.

Matthew Yglesias » The Limits to Growth 2010

Because the assessment day format calls for several different exercises and interviews and is very labour-intensive.

This will never be a fair country while middle-class children get all the perks | Heather McGregor 2011

Conventional wisdom is that such interventions on a large scale are high cost, labour-intensive, bureaucratic nightmares.

The limits of government 2011

We knew that in general terms, psychotherapy had been downgraded as a treatment in British and American mental hospitals over the previous twenty years and displaced by greater reliance on medication because the utility of such therapy was difficult to prove, and it was both labour-intensive and highly expensive.

Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011

Studies of how quickly ancient Greek children developed robust bones also seem to show that they began working at labour-intensive, adult tasks from the age of three onwards.

Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011

Studies of how quickly ancient Greek children developed robust bones also seem to show that they began working at labour-intensive, adult tasks from the age of three onwards.

Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011

Studies of how quickly ancient Greek children developed robust bones also seem to show that they began working at labour-intensive, adult tasks from the age of three onwards.

Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011

Studies of how quickly ancient Greek children developed robust bones also seem to show that they began working at labour-intensive, adult tasks from the age of three onwards.

Peter McAllister: Manthropology: The Science Of The Inadequate Modern Male Peter McAllister 2011

"Artists were suddenly able to sketch an outline in space and rapidly build up a three-dimensional form of substantial scale from scrap or cheaper materials without the labour-intensive and time-consuming process of carving or casting."

Spotting the State of Art Paul Levy 2012