Sentences with phrase «as hours spent»

Prepared by Michael Molnar, curriculum director of the Amherst schools, it shows an increased number of testing days, as well as hours spent.

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It seems like I spend twice as long in the car every day idling my way through rush hour and staring at the rusted bumper of the car in front of me, when I could be writing and connecting with clients at work.

This doesn't come as a shock to someone who just spent the better part of an hour trying to convince Comcast (CMSA)-RRB- that $ 180 is way too much to pay for too many bad TV channels; often - unreliable broadband; and downright terrible phone service.

Looking at funerals as an event to celebrate an individual's life, Earp said customers want an «area where they can spend two or three hours sort of having champagne and canapes as opposed to having a cup of tea and a rich tea biscuit.»

Since August 1966, as the Washington Post outlines in a gut - stirring data visualization that truly every American should spend an hour with, there have been 150 mass shootings in which at least four people were murdered, nearly always by a lone gunman.

As someone who spends thousands of hours in the air each year, I know how isolating traveling can be, especially when first starting out.

As I draw up spreadsheets of likely investors and put meetings on the calendar, I'm reminded of the many things I dread about fundraising, beginning with spending hours on traffic - choked 101 from San Francisco to Silicon Valley.

It's also a good choice for people who care about the company they support, as Tom's of Maine funnels much of its profits to charities and encourages employees to spend a percentage of their working hours doing volunteer activities.

While I for one am absolutely thrilled about a reduction in time spent doing laundry (as it continues to feel like a treadmill of tedium today, I can only imagine the hours our grandparents wasted on the task), you could be excused for asking, who really cares?

The differences were considerable: Teens who spent more than five hours a day online were twice as likely to be unhappy as those who spent less than an hour a day.

What you see as a couple lines on your resume is actually thousands of hours spent with a group of people with values, stories and institutional memories.

Currently, the couple lives off of cash flow from investments — rental income, dividends, and interest — as well as advertising and book sales on their travel blog, which they spend just two hours a day maintaining.

As he puts it in the video above: «We spend more waking hours with our friends and family.

True or not (and many advocates for women in tech spending their lives battling these stereotypes), in our unpolitically correct moments most of us would admit that we hold an image of programmers as shy but brilliant types who don't mind being holed away with their computers for hours or days on end.

In other words, women in Louisiana earn 70 cents for every dollar men in Louisiana make, or they spend 10.5 hours of each 35 - hour work week «working for free,» as Expert Market's research team puts it.

In K. Anders Ericsson's famous study of violinists, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the «10,000 hour rule,» Anders found that the best violinists spent more time practicing than the merely good students.

As chief executive of Roblox — a San Mateo, California, user - generated gaming platform on which more than 4.5 million people a month spend more than 70 million hours playing cloud - based 3D multiplayer games — he mostly hires through referrals.

A recent study showed teens are spending as much as nine hours a day, and the average person is spending roughly two hours.

«Because we don't get to spend as much time as the founders and devolve our conversations into hour - long epitaphs about cream cheese and whatever.»

Instead, employers should encourage workers to spend the initial hour of the day focused on other things, such as strategic work or important meetings and conversations.

If you're going to do something like intentionally ignore your email for a few hours, you need to be just as intentional about planning how you're going to spend that time.

Forget business school or years as a consultant, Cooke spent most of his 20s competing in memory championships, winning competitions by performing heroic mental feats like memorizing the order of 16 decks of playing cards in under an hour.

Changes to Facebook's news feed as part of an initiative to crack down on the share of low - quality viral videos reduced the amount of time users spend on the network by 50 million hours a day in the fourth quarter, the company reports.

But as I told my editor, Stacy Jones, after spending a few hours watching videos and learning more about the people who believe in the school, I feel like I have new friends in Jerusalem.

Cut to 24 hours later, as she was entering expenses into the 60 or so designated categories in Google Sheets and bemoaning the fact that she had already spent more than planned this month, thanks to an annual renter's insurance payment.

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I've spent dozens of hours with the console during the past week, both at home on my TV and out in the world as a portable system.

I remember visiting RadioShack as a kid to pick up some batteries and spending hours checking out the remote - control cars, radio kits and eventually my first cellphone.

Jay's received a lot of recognition in different ways as an influencer, but this time, he was being recognized for all the hours he's spent on planes and speaking to people and the positive reviews he's received for putting the time in.

As a species we've spent countless hours worrying about the health of our home ecosystem.

Livingston made a lot of money, but she also used a variety of strategies to save big over the years, such as tracking her spending and automating her savings, but it was one mental trick that made the biggest difference: Think about purchases in terms of cost per hour.

The average time spent on private activities, such as online shopping, checking social media and emails, personal phone calls, and chatting with colleagues sucks up an estimated 1.5 to 3 hours per day, according to studies cited by The Atlantic.

It found when women worked more than 34 hours per week and men spent over 47 hours a week working, they were more likely to experience mental illness and symptoms of distress such as nervousness or feeling low.

Most of us spend a majority of our waking hours at work, so it's only natural that we want to enjoy our time in the office as much as we can.

Yet to qualify as a real estate professional, you must meet the IRS definition, which includes spending at least 750 hours a year working on that rental business.

«You must also have synergy with your first franchisees, as you will spend numerous hours together to train them well,» she adds.

They spent hours every week discussing Facebook's future as it prepared to scale, and found that while they agreed on some fundamental issues, their visions were not identical.

Now, in the third year of running my own business, the hundreds of hours I spent with Mr. Clarke continue to shape my daily decisions, something I had never anticipated as a child.

Simply put, lifting heavy isn't fun... but neither is spending an hour or so in the gym every day and not feeling like I'm making as much headway as I should.

«Yo, what are we going to do with this stuff,» Jake asks as we're all attempting to deflate the props we just spent an hour inflating.

Elon Musk has as many hours in the day as the rest of us do, and right now it sounds like his car company needs him to spend more of those hours focused on making sure it achieves its goal of revolutionizing the automotive industry.

Michael Phelps spent countless hours in the pool as he geared up for his fifth appearance in the Olympic Games this summer in Rio.

As he was going through the immigration screening process at the airport that afternoon, he was pulled aside, put in a small adjoining room and spent the next ten hours being questioned by U.S. immigration officials and was threatened with deportation.

Page Six later identified the woman seen with Thompson as 28 - year - old model Lani Blair and reported that the two spent four hours together at the Cleveland Cavaliers» hotel (who were in the city to play the New York Knicks).

You don't have to spend an exact amount of hours each week, such as 40 hours.

«I said, «You want to pay me for something I'm spending 30 hours a week on as a volunteer?

For businesses using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, it's easy to get lost in cyberspace and spend hours on the computer.

But it's hard to deny that there is something, sometimes, that happens when we travel, even as part of the regular hour - and - a-half the average North American spends doing it each day — a sense of dislocation, even in familiar places, that helps us notice new details about our surroundings or that gives a new cast to those we've internalized.

As a social media manager I used to spend countless hours working with clients to try and maximize organic Facebook reach.

Working long hours in a job you need, but don't want, feeling as if each hour is time you should have spent pursuing what you love — time you'll never get back.