"All that effort and expense wasted," Pei repeated.

Oh, the effort they've wasted on breeding those 'tropes!

So much effort wasted.

Why waste the effort to build a new one?

All that effort wasted, he swore at the darkness.

"All that time and effort, all those tests, the isolation they went through, wasted."

You know, of course, mat sooner or later it will be robbed, and all your husband's efforts wasted.

"So much mental effort wasted on my eye color," Lily said with a shake of her head, making it obvious she was reading Jackie's mind.

All that effort wasted.

All that time and effort wasted on nothing.