Family doctors are devoting as many as four days a week to setting up clinical commissioning groups (CCGs), the groups of family doctors that will become key NHS bodies from April 2013.
Second, while we journos observe and criticise, we rarely comment on the smooth running achieved by conference organisers, nor dwell much on all the delegates who clear their diaries to devote as many as five days to engage with debates within their political family.
Bird watchers may join others in the field or monitor their backyard feeders, devoting as many hours as is convenient.
My history of the city between the volcanic years of 1967 and 1982 apparently should have devoted as many pages to radical lesbians as I did to the gay activists who dramatically transformed San Francisco.
No wonder many guidebooks still devote as many pages to the Guggenheim — reprinting floor plans, offering tips and expounding on the museum's design — as they do the rest of Bilbao.
While he said he wanted to see a more detailed convention schedule before committing resources, he appeared confident CNN would not devote as many hours to the task as MSNBC.
Janice Min, editor in chief of Us Weekly, said that her magazine devoted as many as 35 pages to the fashion and hairdos at the Globes, and that she believed her readers preferred the style competition over the actual awards.
Newspapers regularly devote as many pages to changes in his legal team's strategy as they do to the government's economic agenda, and television stations run polls on whether people think Mr. Berlusconi's legal woes could bring down the government.
Rick Santorum, who will have a harder time in the state with its smaller evangelical Christian bloc, campaigned in Florida on Sunday, but since the state has a winner-take-all contest, his campaign may not devote as many resources here as it did to the other states.
