Sentences with phrase «spend weeks studying»

Now you no longer need to spend weeks studying bankruptcy laws.»

A team of scientists will spend weeks studying the results.

Among the lesser known discoveries during the early days at Google was the realization that business could grow faster if customers didn't have to spend weeks studying an unduly complicated contract.

Ever bombed a test you spent weeks studying for, or botched a simple play that cost your team the game?

Students spent a week studying Iraq's history and culture and another week studying the life of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein before the debates.

Not exact matches

This CPP commissioned study found that U.S. employees spend 2.8 hours per week dealing with conflict, equating to approximately $ 359 billion in paid hours.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

A study released in November of 12 participants who spent two weeks in a Boston sleep - research lab discovered that using light - emitting e-reader devices can have negative effects on sleep quality.

Instead, he split his time between studying for his economics and finance classes and spending 10 to 15 hours each week on the internship and job hunt.

The study of 400 students concluded that «those who have used Facebook longer agreed more that others were happier, and agreed less that life is fair, and those spending more time on Facebook each week agreed more that others were happier and had better lives.»

I had an exam the following week (in micro no less) and needed to spend the weekend studying.

The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

Looking further at those trends, the study reveals that men spent less time on social media than women (5 vs. 7 hours per week), decreasing their hours by 1 from the previous year.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

Meadows said Thursday he would like a measure that would index the debt limit to growth in the economy; another conservative leader, Rep. Mark Walker (N.C.) of the Republican Study Committee, said this week that he would support efforts to constrain Medicaid spending.

Well into her 80s, she spends much of each week in prayer and Bible study.

Between Bible studies, youth group events, small group meetings and young adult services, it's easy to spend every night of your week at church.

Some say it is a quantity of time issue, so that those who spend the majority of their time during the week studying Scripture and teaching the Bible should get paid, while those who spend less time should not.

Not only are men supposed to attend morning Bible studies, but they're supposed to get home in time for dinner, spend time alone with each child, date their wives once a week, and earn enough money so that their wives can stay home with their young children.

This is why I spend so much time studying during the week and why we spend half of our service in teaching the Word.

Carl and I spend most of the journey to the Holy Island of Lindisfarne doing this week's Watchtower Bible study.

She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.

No, research and writing is not my full - time job, but I figure I spend about 10 hours a week or so in study.

We began an in depth study of the red letters... took a real good look at the sermon on the mount... spent several weeks on what Jesus would say to us if he were part of the group.

In any case, when I was 19 I spent 6 weeks studying art history in the magical city of Florence, and, although I didn't pick up the Italian espresso habit, I definitely got into biscotti!

While every week day was taken up with studying the vervet monkeys that roam this small Caribbean island, every weekend was spent, as you might imagine, at the beach.

Before Friday's final, Spain's coach, Antonio Diaz - Miguel, who spends a week every winter studying under the master at Indiana, asked «my good friend, Bob, if he want my whole team in trade for Pat Ewing and Michael Jordan.

He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.

She then spent her week connecting with her independent study teachers at Berkeley High, taking exams and turning in assignments.

Between Fleck's four years as a wide receiver at Northern Illinois and his two seasons playing for the 49ers, he spent a few weeks as a sixth - grade social studies teacher in DeKalb, Ill..

Studies show children and teens who spend twice as many hours a week in organized sports than in free play are prone to injuries at a greater rate.

According to the study, an average of four hours per week, the British football lover spent for football news.

For now, at least, it may be enough to know that for the students in Jackson's study, spending a few hours each week in close proximity to a certain kind of teacher changed something about their behavior.

In a 1964 study, researchers found that there was little change in the number of hours spent sleeping over a 24 - hour period during infants» first 16 weeks of life.

Spending many hours per week playing sports was found to have a positive effect on explosive strength and gross motor coordination among all age groups, supporting the theory advanced in earlier studies.»

It seems pretty clear though that 12 weeks should just be the beginning of what's considered an acceptable amount of leave: a 2013 study published in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law found that women who return to work earlier than six months after giving birth are more likely to develop PPD than those who were able to spend more time at home.

Studies show that 6 weeks is actually the peak in amount of time spent crying for newborn baby unless they develop colic; after that the time spent crying slowly starts to fall as the baby grows and matures.

Still, a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center shows that women will still spend 9 more hours each week on child - related and household responsibilities, than men.

In fact, studies show 60 percent of teenagers spend an average of 20 hours per week in front of the TV and the computer.

CND said the study showed the amount of UV - B light in 10 minutes of exposure to a nail lamp is the same as spending an 30 extra seconds in the sun every day for the two weeks between salon appointments.»

The amount of time kids spend in front of a screen today is frightening (recent studies show children ages 2 - 11 are watching as much as 32 hours a week!)

According to recent studies, children been the ages of 2 and 11 can spend as much as 32 hours a week in front of the TV and / or tablet.

In a recent study, nearly 96 percent of all boys and girls who were spending two weeks or more at overnight camp reported some homesickness on at least one day.

But this week's Mom Enough guest has spent much of her career studying why family meals are so important, why they happen so seldom, and how parents can overcome barriers and make the most out of...

This allows my husband and me to spend the little time we have during the week together to play with our baby boy, eat, study, and go to bed.

However, by asking friends and family, or spending a week of studying what it is they truly enjoy, you can easily find the perfect gift that'll have them beaming from ear - to - ear.

Although the Australian work of McIntosh (2010) found that infants under two who spent one night or more a week and toddlers who spend 10 days a month of overnight time in their non-primary caregiver's care are more irritable, more severely distressed and insecure in their relationships with their primary parent, less persistent at tasks, and more physically and emotionally stressed, this study has been largely discredited by a recently published consensus report endorsed by 110 child development experts (Warshak, 2013), which found that McIntosh drew unwarranted conclusions from her unrepresentative and flawed data.

The study, Counting the Cost: caring for people with dementia, has prompted the Society to call for the government to reduce time spent in hospital by people with dementia by one week.