wasted effort

He spent wasted effort trying to get a hold of Young.

And a lot of it was going to be wasted effort.

No point to it, all wasted effort; he knew the thing by heart.

"This is another example of wasted efforts in our system," she said.

It could save you a lot of wasted effort and money.

The environment systems workers moved quickly, without wasted effort or much talking.

She decided it would have been a wasted effort anyway.

He tried not to struggle, for at the moment it was wasted effort.

It could all be wasted effort, or they might have a foundation to work on when the word came down.

You can see there's a lot of wasted effort and repeated work here.

She considered calling after them but decided that it was a wasted effort.

"But it turned out to be a wasted effort on my part.

The moment and person are gone, never to return; whatever regret you feel is no more than wasted effort.

At this late date anything he tried to pull together would be a complete wasted effort.

This will result in a faster passage with less wasted effort.

It's eight billion hours a year of wasted effort because the water is often contaminated when it gets there.

I suspect that most of these descriptions are wasted effort.

Still, a boycott is not necessarily a wasted effort, he added.

I put up a brisk resistance, but it was all wasted effort.

It was the thought of the wasted effort that really upset Miller.

Not being familiar with the river could cost you much time and wasted effort."

Although, he told himself, that would be wasted effort.

Though he knew it was a wasted effort, he tried to reason with her.

It would just be a wasted effort, I decided.

Chasing after her would be a wasted effort, and hard on his mount in this heat.