Sentences with phrase «disproportionate amount of time»

These are companies that spend disproportionate amounts of time and money on people.

I felt, can we do something with an app that will make people who spend disproportionate amounts of time on the smartphone read books?»

Sarah Dryden - Peterson, an assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that refugee children — many of them English - language learners — spend a «disproportionate amount of their time learning languages,» which can contribute to falling behind in age - appropriate academic content.»

Tourists may not understand the process, so they may spend a disproportionate amount of time at a ticket kiosk.

Frances Woolley rightly states that Canadian journalists put a disproportionate amount of our time into following up on Stats Can reports, OECD reports, and think - tank publications.

To some, it must have seemed that he devoted a disproportionate amount of time to the sick.

If «art» in this sense seems to take a disproportionate amount of time in sermon preparation, it can be safely assumed that this time will diminish as the process of unlearning clears away artificialities that obstruct communication.

«You're lucky he didn't actually bump his head or they would have called the social services,» warned a doctor friend who spends a disproportionate amount of her time consoling panic - stricken mothers.

He will have to spend a disproportionate amount of his time fundraising.

Disproportionate amount of time spent looking at close up print / screens / pictures compared to things at a distance

Yet, I still spend a disproportionate amount of time worrying about my teeth.

This is a great little indie game that will absorb a disproportionate amount of your time compared to its price.

Gilroy's script slips some commentary in regarding the sensationalistic nature of network television news broadcasts, which spend a disproportionate amount of time (and, apparently, money) on grisly stories too fear - inducing for the public to ignore.

But a disproportionate amount of time, money, and energy has been devoted to scrutinizing and opining on these plans — as if boilerplate bluster will ultimately make a big difference for what happens in schools.

Secretary Bell, citing surveys by the U.S. Education Department, asserted that «too many school boards spend a disproportionate amount of time on budgets, personnel issues, and salaries, when they need to emphasize their time on education matters.»

For special educational needs coordinators (SENCOs), this is just one aspect of the EHCP administration that continues to take up a disproportionate amount of their time.

We also need to bear in mind that many people, and especially children at school, spend a disproportionate amount of their time each day indoors — in some cases as much as 90 %.

When we consider planning, it isn't about writing a detailed lesson plan that talks a good game, taking a disproportionate amount of time to create and therefore increasing the workload burden, to the contrary, squeezing every last drop of learning out of every lesson should be about planning sequences of learning whereby it challenges all students, relative to their starting points.

If there's one thing we all have in common (apart from the fact that we all spend a disproportionate amount of time in the air) it is that we hate, abhor and detest fuel surcharges.

This is home to a few small resorts the majority of which cater to Thai package tourists travelling on «3 day 2 night» tours which will include a snorkelling trip, an hour canoeing in the bay and a disproportionate amount of time spent eating copious amounts of seafood and uploading photos of themselves doing it to Facebook.

As it turned out I spent a disproportionate amount of time «bug - checking» Ice Shuffle and Aquatic Word Burst.

For many of us who spend a disproportionate amount of time in front of screens, much of our communication has become disembodied.

Therefore, you may have your most tenured and valuable support staff spending a disproportionate amount of time managing work that should be completed by lower - cost employees (who might well be better skilled to execute the task).

And because «death is different,» the justices spend a disproportionate amount of their time on capital cases.

To see that failure in action, consider the disproportionate amount of time spent on the purchasing decision.

The Special Master Program, as it was known, was intended to address the needs of the small percentage of separated couples who found themselves caught up in frequent disputes over often insignificant parenting problems, and demanded a disproportionate amount of time before a judge as a result.

I think the outcome is that we're spending a disproportionate amount of our time and energy on busywork and not enough time on challenging, creative tasks that will give our work real meaning.»

Unsurprisingly, effective communication is vital; when the other half begins to spend a disproportionate amount of time at work, sans explanation, the chances of divorce increases significantly.

Many PC's put a clause in their fee agreements that the fees can be reallocated if one of the parties is not acting in good faith or if one uses a disproportionate amount of time.

The topic of premarital counseling is often prefaced with comments on the disproportionate amount of time couples put into planning...

A parent can win a disproportionate amount of time with their child, but if the relationship is poor, it really just means more time to ruin the relationship and hurt the child.

Like most professions, real estate agents spend a disproportionate amount of time helping a small percentage of «problem» customers.