Growing things for food is a terribly inefficient use of energy.
Eating food," said Bruno with a grin, "is a terribly inefficient and messy way of acquiring energy.
"Despite the fact that it looks really chaotic, the way we build is not terribly inefficient."
"The market was terribly inefficient, but the more inefficient, the better it was for us."
You can send information as images, but it's terribly inefficient.
"Nibbling around the edges of the leaf market," he said, "is terribly inefficient."
In practice, this is not terribly inefficient, simply because the number of levels of recursion tends to be relatively modest for most classes.
It would be a terribly inefficient use of his time and abilities for him to stay where he was not needed.
They had to be big because they were terribly inefficient.
Selling properties one by one, he said, is "terribly inefficient."