The phrase "a
lot of staff time" means that a significant amount of effort and resources have been dedicated to completing a task or project by members of an organization.
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This type of program
takes lots of staff time, special supplies, thoughtful training and support, and willing volunteers.
And the extensive application would take up
a lot of staff time to complete before the July 1 deadline.
This reporting takes
a lot of staff time — they have to make requests, follow up with schools, collect the data, combine it into single data files so they can analyze it... But we found that much of the data that the central office was requesting was information that they had provided to the schools in the first place.
«We were paying experts to run computers and taking
a lot of staff time to talk to the press about computers, not real estate,» Williams says.