waste of time

Ordinary citizens feel like street protests are a waste of time and energy.

"The retrofit is a waste of time," he said.

Williams seemed consumed with how to ensure this wasn’t all a self-destructive, highly dangerous waste of time.

I now realise it was such a waste of time.

If the proposals "comply" with these plans, the government said, they could "bypass planning committees entirely to tackle chronic uncertainty, unacceptable delays and unnecessary waste of time and resources".