Sentences with phrase «substantial time away»

I'm learning the ropes of social media marketing, which is taking substantial time away from working on my new book, but I know I'll have to do this even if I eventually sign with a publisher, so it's all good.

Not exact matches

Save me time or money, or make me more productive, and it's going to take a very substantial and persuasive argument to make me walk away.

But with the governor's commitment of substantial one - time money to help with the transition, opposition to the early start date has largely fallen away.

Get a substantial portion of your equity exposure invested (at least 30 - 50 %) right away so you'll have the opportunity to participate in the gains, and then space out your subsequent purchases over time.

This system allows Game Freak staff to try out their ideas, at the same time not taking away substantial resources from the Pokémon production team.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

A first thing to know is that long - distance relationships (LDRs) are very common, with as many as 70 % of college students at some point dating someone who lives far away from them.1 Even beyond college, employment opportunities and military service mean that many romantic partners spend substantial amounts of time away from one another.

«We are now entering the time of the year when both inventory and demand typically reach their peak as the start of the school year takes away a substantial chunk of near - term demand,» says Jonathan Smoke, realtor.com ®'s chief economist.