Sentences with phrase «spend much precious»

Teachers recognize test preparation as necessary in this era of high stakes standardized exams, but most can't afford to spend much precious class time on test preparation activities.

Not exact matches

The broad approach makes us spend way too much money and effort to get precious few buyers.

Much of the rent and the consultants» work were paid for in DenOptix stock, meaning that the company spent only $ 45,000 of its precious cash during its first year of business.

They spent too much money before checking with the target audience, which made it necessary to spend precious time going back and redoing aspects of the company's website and software to make them more customer - centric.

Since 2001 the silver and gold markets have gone up substantially as a reaction to the 20 year precious metals bear market from 1980 — 2000, massive increases in military spending, weakening global economies that REQUIRE Quantitative Easing to avoid deflation, the rise of competing currencies that weaken the dollar's trading status, excessive debts in Europe, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and so much more.

«I don't know if the reason for my anger is just my old fashioned Irish - American patriotism,» wrote the friend who sent us the link, «or the fact that I just spent a week with my father tripping and limping around with a bad leg he gave in the service of this nation, or because my mother is an immigrant and both my paternal grandparents were too, and as much as all of them loved Ireland they knew how much they owed this country and considered the precious value of their American citizenship only slightly behind that of their baptismal certificates.»

You spend so much time trying to photograph a great recipe just to find out all of that precious time and effort went to waste because Foodgawker, yet again, has declined your submission.

He coaches his boys in baseball and basketball and spends much of his precious little spare time hitting the gym to keep in shape.

Indeed, in Colonial Connecticut and Massachusetts shuffleboard was described as a game in which «much precious time is spent unfruitfully.»

That's what I'm calling it — these games that strip away all optimism and leave it in tatters across our immaculate pitch where we spend too much of the precious 90 minutes passing against walls.

That golden milk is so precious, and you spent so much time and effort pumping out that milk for your baby, so that's the last thing you want to hear.

And for moms that pump exclusively, they're having to spend so much of their precious time each day hooked up to the breast pump, cleaning the parts, and storing the milk.

Oh dear sister - you are truly one of my greatest and most treasured family members in this cyber world we live in and spend much of our precious time and energy investing in!

Most of us spend the entire week looking forward to the weekend (#TGIF) but much of the time we actually end up not making the best of those precious 48 hours.

My time with Brian is always so precious since we spend so much of it away from each other.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

The small window of time we spend with these characters for each movie only makes their story feel that much more precious.

Scalzi spends so much time reassuring himself that those awful Puppies can't hurt his precious Hugo Awards that he never stops to reflect on the Hugos themselves.

So, why spend much of your precious time in writing tough assignments?

I spent so much time researching book reviewers, advertising and social media techniques that I lost a lot of precious time.

Make sure you have enough time at each destination and that you're not spending too much of your precious vacation time in the air or at airports.

they had so much promise and yet it was so difficult to redeem them because so many of their properties are sub par and I don't want to spend precious vacation time in sub par properties.

Some changes didn't make much sense, such as the blacksmith upgrades sitting in the storage pits, but I appreciated that I no longer needed to spend precious wood on a blacksmithing building.

Campaigns are always looking for smarter ways to spend their precious dollars, and digital advertising is much less expensive than traditional TV, radio and mail ads.

Are you spending too much of your precious time and energy on low - payoff job search activities while you ignore those that will produce the positive results that you want and deserve?

The template has a compact form that helps in composing the proposal letter in a smart manner without spending much of precious time.

Among the things they regretted most were spending too much time at work, not taking enough photographs to capture precious memories, and not playing enough with their kids.