Sentences with phrase «hours at a time»

While convincing people to wear a pair of high - end earbuds for hours at a time could sound like a tough sell, Kraft has extreme confidence in Doppler's ability to make waves in the wearable tech market.

While it might sound intimidating (the name itself doesn't exactly scream «user - friendly»), intermittent fasting can be adapted for a variety of eating preferences, from regularly abstaining from food for 12 - 16 hours at a time to not eating once or twice a week.

I've worn them for hours at a time — on long train trips and through streaming binges with a Roku remote — and hardly felt a mark afterwards.

Hiking shoes are designed for use while you're carrying a pack and covering long distances, while trail runners are ideal for the unladen user out for a few hours at a time.

The mentors with whom the companies are paired for an hour at a time — VCs, tech executives, and angel investors — review the statements in advance, and come prepared for an in - depth discussion of how specifically to move the business forward.

«Whether it was planting, weeding, harvesting or something to do with the animals, I found that most chores took about two hours at a time to complete.»

It is a good match for me because it meant I could do a mild workout for several hours at a time.

It's a tough line to walk, especially while testifying for hours at a time, and Stumpf certainly stumbled a few times, saying that the actions weren't «random.»

The technology giant launched «2G Tuesdays», where employees can experience their product as if on a 2G connection for an hour at a time.

That means that most of us are sitting at a desk for hours at a time.

Do so for a chunk of hours at a time.

This is horrible news for cubicle dwellers, who often have no choice but to sit for hours at a time.

She claims the pain worsened from holding the phone in the crook of her neck for hours at a time while typing — because her bosses allegedly denied her request for a headset.

I hated being stuck in one place for eight hours at a time, so we created a bar where upper - class passengers could meet and talk during the flight.

Sitting down at a desk and listening to someone lecture for two or three hours at a time isn't fun.

If you don't want to sink much more into something you'll only use for a couple hours at a time, try the Koss Fitclips.

«You can have a wolf and a gelada within a metre or two of each other and virtually ignoring each other for up to 2 hours at a time,» says [study researche Vivek] Venkataraman.

If you plan to use your baby carrier only around the house for chores and don't envision yourself wearing your baby many hours at a time then you may not be too concerned about weight distribution.

My flexible position allows me to work a few hours at a time in the morning, during the day or evening.

These competitors are on - call for ten social challenges to be completed in less than 48 hours at any time of day or night.

I browse the Internet everyday for hours at a time doing research, completing projects and for a plethora of other reasons.

It happened an hour at a time, an equivocation at a time, a lie at a time, a decision at a time, a decision evaded at a time.

I'm an ABCian and our prayers go for 3 hours at a time minimum.

Pastors, I know many of you are struggling with how to shepherd a politically diverse community through these tumultuous times, but please know those relationships you're navigating one visit, one meal, and one awkward coffee hour at a time matter more than any political speech delivered by a celebrity.

Local passports, valid for ten years, allowed their bearers an unlimited number of entrances into the United States, provided that they remained within 25 miles of the border and stayed for no more than 72 hours at a time.

She falls asleep easily, she is happy and content, she naps beautifully, she is ahead of the curve in her development in every way and she is apparently unable to sleep longer than two hours at a time.

I answer a lot of questions: Joseph is four years old now, and he can question like a CIA interrogator, relentless, for hours at a time, until I'm reduced to saying, «No more!

I prayed fervently for well over a year, hours at a time, for my doubt to be lifted, for my heart to be restored.

Regarding the latter, the stories are depressingly redundant: parents and other relatives who were alcoholics and / or drug addicts, who left the boys to fend for themselves or locked them for hours at a time in a bathroom or the basement, and who took out their own frustrations by beating the boys with belts and boards.

There, with my Bible open before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time, and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart, and He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.»

One of my students reported that she learned to love nature by watching, studying, and photographing one polar bear for hours at a time over several weeks.

I have never forgotten the debt that my family owe you and over the years I have rattled tins, waved banners, written letters and sat in a damp cage for hours at a time — small actions that conveyed my gratitude to Amnesty for standing by my father when he would otherwise have stood alone.

So I suggested that since men don't particularly notice each others clothes anyway, and cuz he only sits in them for a few hours at a time, rarely even sweating on his upper lip, he should hang up his once worn clothes as soon as he gets home in order to preserve their freshness and save him from ironing them so soon again.

She is such a great baby sleeps 4 hours at time at night and so mellow and easy going.

When you're out on the trails for 5 - 6 hours at a time some real food is pretty welcomed, actually.

Go on experiences and trips and intentionally switch off your phone for hours at a time.

Because laying on the kitchen floor and humming the same NoFX song for hours at a time will get to you at a certain point.

It was exhilarating to «break the rules,» to allow myself the power to leave the familiar, if only for a few hours at a time.

It was inspired by a recipe in Nigel Slater's new book Notes from the Larder: A Kitchen Diary with Recipes (I could spend hours at a time reading this book by the way... it's fabulous).

I would look online for hours at a time until I found something that looked easy but appetizing.

In observing Nathan's Famous carts in action, the lines were three to five persons deep for three to four hours at a time.

We're in 52 degree rooms for three or more hours at a time,» he said.

I might have the tiniest hunch what it is actually, because we both food blog so much and I am terrible at doing that talking about myself, blowing my own trumpet thing too, and I've been sitting at my desk for hours at a time trying to do the same thing too, recently!

Making dinner with a slow cooker — Crock - Pot is the go - to brand in the U.S. — is an easy way to get in all those vitamins and minerals without slaving over a hot stove for hours at a time.

There are also some higher - end Cadco models that contain thermostats allowing you to control the heat to keep your foods hot for hours at a time.

Speak to doctors about burnout — having to work twenty hours at a time for five or six days a week — that is burnout.

Since the issue arrived here the snow has melted, the sleet has stopped for as much as an hour at a time and even the ground is beginning to thaw in some places.

«I've seen him spend five hours at a time out there, totally focused,» she says.

Each of the team was required to swim for over an hour at a time for as long as it took to reach the French coast, in water no warmer than 16 degrees Celsius.

This is the circuit where one sees the game's fabric being woven — and sometimes unraveled; where a disgusted player will walk over to a garbage can and junk an armful of rackets only to have a solicitous girl friend retrieve them and hurry after him; where a young player can sit stock - still for an hour at a time, staring at a tennis ball, hoping to improve his concentration; and where groups of players discuss why they lost matches and conclude it was not because they failed to hit the right shots, but because they were reluctant to cheat.