It's been a fast year for me, but a year of learning.
It would take more than a year for them to learn of the depth of Gupta's legal tangles.
Children's years for learning fly by, and resources delayed are opportunities denied.
Spencer, who was invited to the UK by one of the charities involved, City Year UK, which puts about 200 young volunteers into schools in deprived parts of London, Birmingham and Manchester for a year as learning mentors, says there is huge potential for a formal, year-long volunteering scheme to take off here.
Given the progression of the curriculum, Robson concludes that it took about a year for Sumerian scribes to learn how to multiply.
Prince Ernest proved an apt student, and after being tutored privately for a year, while learning German, he attended lectures at the University.
Yeah, it was just one thing after another for a year, learning how to record on a computer, learning about outboard gear, compressors, microphones, all of which I knew nothing about before this.
The project arrives just as all kinds of amateurs are getting excited about coding, thanks to Code Academy, a free online course in programming that looks like Foursquare-meets-Math Blaster (the new Code Year course asks that each student spend about an hour a day for a year learning JavaScript, which may be a small price to pay for the great sums that will come to you as a master hacker).
But what if, when the high-school phenom Andrew Wiggins called a press conference last year, he'd said that he was going to play for money in Barcelona for a year and learn Spanish on the side, instead of announcing that he'd wait out the N.B.A.'s rules for a season at Kansas?
Stamp says he was confident about the job because he didn't care about it: "I'd been an ashram for a year, learning to separate orgasm from ejaculation.
