By 1991, the average household needed to devote only 38% of its income to the basic necessities, and was able to spend 6% on recreation.
Because she works 10 hours a day as a publicist, the mother of three young children is able to devote, at most, only the hours between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. to filling orders and buying items from 100 manufacturers and designers.
Freed from all financial worry, young Courbet was able to devote himself entirely to his art.
Publishers have lots of books, need to make a profit, and are battling declining reader attention spans, so they are only able to devote a certain amount of time to helping writers market their books anyway.
The consultant was only able to devote a limited amount of time to the Nixon campaign since he was the Southern California campaign manager for the successful re-election bid of Republican Senator William F. Knowland.
Various factors may account for these differences including that: Staff may be busy with other activities and only able to devote a small proportion of time to delivery care.
Meanwhile, Amazon has many millions of books, and needs to make a profit, so it'll only be able to devote a certain, proportional amount of time to helping writers too.
With work, kids' school parties and Christmas shopping, I've only been able to devote about 4 hrs a day to Twitter.
Not only are experts able to devote cognitive capacity to self-monitoring during task performance, their richer mental models also enable them to better detect errors in their reasoning.
