Sentences with phrase «inordinate amounts of time on»

Yet, I see so many authors waste inordinate amounts of time on fruitless book marketing activities.

For example, you find that a lot of learners spent inordinate amounts of time on some screens; you should go back and examine those screens and see why they are spending so much time there.

For those of us who spend an inordinate amount of time on the road, the importance of these oases of familiarity can not be understated.

I do spend an inordinate amount of time on Pinterest.

College football fans spend an inordinate amount of time on certain debates.

All I knew was that I seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time on my couch with a baby connected to me, so she had to be getting enough.

Unfortunately, Bigelow and «Hurt Locker», «ZD30» screenwriter Mark Boal spend an inordinate amount of time on the quest for stardom of the The Dramatics, whose dream of landing a Motown record contract is derailed by the racial strife in the city.

Like the Harry Potter films, Matthew Vaughn's (Layer Cake) treatment does spend an inordinate amount of time on secondary characters and superfluous side stories, to the point where it's hard to discern there being a main story for long durations.

Furtive glances are about as close as the two come to an actual relationship, but the film spends an inordinate amount of time on their wishes to be together.

I could spend an inordinate amount of time on the plot, put with so many stories and characters, I'm going to just give the general gist of things.

So we principals spend an inordinate amount of time on the phone with a few students parents, chasing the same runners down the hallway, supervising them in the office, holding them back from a tantrum, blocking them from leaving the building, ushering them away from conflicts, counseling them against their bad choices.

In modern times, this parasite is causing people to hoard cats, feed cats, defend TNR, or like Mr. Wolf to spend inordinate amounts of times on the internet, spewing pseudo science in the hopes that this will result in more cats outdoors.

«They are feeling the heat and spending an inordinate amount of time on the issue.»

Do you peruse the dusty old shelves of the local used bookstore, kick it old school and open up the travel section of the city newspaper, or fritter away an inordinate amount of time on Wikipedia?

Want to get the plat, and to the center of the galaxy to see what that's all about, but after that, I can't see myself spending an inordinate amount of time on it after that.

I also think that one needs to spend an inordinate amount of time on that area right below the name and address on one's resume.

«I do spend an inordinate amount of time on client analysis or education.»

Like you, I spend an inordinate amount of time on laundry, so I would add storage that is functional and cute.

Not exact matches

Are people spending an inordinate amount of time just catching up on email?

The reality is, if you're taking advice from these people early on, you're barking up the wrong tree, because that formal plan you're going to spend an inordinate amount of time putting together is going to do more harm than good.

They are not happy, spending inordinate amounts of time dwelling on all that have harmed them.

For one thing, I can get back to problem solving for this blog and really hone in on the real food for busy people aspect... I have drifted away from this since I have had inordinate amounts of time for the past six weeks to make whatever cooking creations from scratch I wanted!

Parents acknowledge that they were so enraptured by Pearson that they ignored a possible warning sign: He spent inordinate amounts of time with the boys off the field, taking them to see movies, to the golf course and on desert outings.

Being a woman in her thirties with two kids means that I spend an inordinate amount of time listening to other women moan about the men in their lives (come on, it's a fact of life that MOST women moan about their fellas).

Will those of us who spend an inordinate amount of time poring over party accounts on the Electoral Commission website finally be recognised for doing incisive, sexy, cutting - edge research?

«An inordinate amount of time is spent on something that has no scientific value whatsoever.»

If you look at the training methods of best athletes and teams on the face of the planet, you'll notice that they spend what seems to be an inordinate amount of time doing something other than their actual sport.

Amour suffers from some pacing issues, although these are largely the result of Haneke using «dead space» (such as a sequence in which his camera spends an inordinate amount of time focused on paintings or an interminable scene in which Georges attempts to capture a pigeon that has entered his home) to establish a tone or develop a character.

The story centers on Jude as he comes to terms with finding out he's adopted, works to overcome his less than stellar parents, and spends an inordinate amount of time finding new ways to experiment with drugs.

That might seem an inordinate amount of time to work on a film, but trust me, it's time well spent.

Episode 136: Jay Cheel (Film Junk / The Documentary Blog) joins the boys today for a good dissection (and an inordinate amount of time spent) on the cinema of our old friend Quentin Tarantino and his latest flick, Inglourious Basterds.

While this is an extreme case — and arguably abusive — test prep is still occurring citywide even at schools with high test scores.The organized opt - out movement here in NYC is led by local parents and educators who spend an inordinate amount of time researching the NYS Common Core testing program and educating themselves on developmentally appropriate pedagogy.

Schools are being mandated to use programs like Teaching Strategies Gold, into which teachers spend inordinate amounts of time entering up to ten «domains» of information, even submitting photos and videos to provide what they call evidence, to ensure toddlers are on the track to success.

Because as it stands, nobody can give you a clear picture of what it all means, yet we spend an inordinate amount of time focusing on the test.

Both bought 2000 Focuses on my recommendation, and both spent an inordinate amount of time in Ford dealer repair shops getting fit - and - finish fixes, safety - recall fixes and repairs on engine control modules.

You have two choices: buy images from a stock photo marketplace like iStockphoto, or spend an inordinate amount of time poking around Creative Commons licenses on Flikr.

Brian Meeks is a full - time author who writes fiction and non-fiction books while spending inordinate amounts of time looking at guinea pig pictures on Instagram.

Amazon has taken on the iPad in the most obvious way, spending an inordinate amount of time comparing its newest tablet with Apple's slate.

If there is an inordinate amount of pressure on you to sign something right away, with no time for you to get it legally checked out, you should be hearing alarm bells clanging loudly in your head.

I spend an inordinate amount of time with them and I take them everywhere I go: when I am on a date, they will be there too; they are with me all day when I go from house to house to give lessons; they are my «business card» when I give a seminar or need to show a customer how to do a certain exercise; they are my advertising when I want to show people my skills and knowledge; they often will sleep on my bed; they will climb in my lap when I am typing away at my computer; they will go on every vacation I take (at 2 years of age, Dillon, my Doberman, had over 50,000 miles on him, going everywhere, from Seattle to Mt Rushmore, Yellowstone, British Columbia, Banff and Jasper, Los Angeles, and all points in between... and about 200,000 miles on him when he passed away at 6 years of age).

If a breeder spends an inordinate amount of time focusing on another breeder, they generally feel threatened by the other breeder.

Without spending an inordinate amount of research time on this reply:

Chen stated that development on Journey has required an inordinate amount of time addressing camera issues.

He spends an inordinate amount of time reading English renaissance literature, and the rest is spent on video games.

There's probably a reason for that — I spent an inordinate amount of time with Assassin's Creed Origins (review) while she was in the womb and had the soundtrack on repeat in the mornings while we were eating breakfast so there's every possibility she caught the gentle melodies of Sarah Schachner's latest master works quite often before birth.

Figen Mekik: «then one would have to either send the paper to more reviewers (which would take an inordinate amount of time) or rejecta a paper based on its authors list.

the «black hole» was the black hole of time, the students did not see the importance of defending anything on this site (there was some concerned voiced about the inordinate amount of time i had spent blogging on the site), as opposed to other venues such as scientific conferences.

Insurance companies that take an inordinate amount of time to settle a claim or refuse payment on losses covered under a policy, may be guilty of insurance bad faith.

When you put yourself on the record, you are responsible to the client to ferry them all the way through the system — a ferrying that takes inordinate amounts of time (i.e., money).

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