Sentence examples for hours of learning from inspiring English sources

More hours of learning — not fewer — can make a world of difference.

Five minutes stamping out disruption in every lesson taught means [each] pupil loses around 130 hours of learning a year," he adds.

Raising money for acquisitions can take years, but within 72 hours of learning about the paintings' whereabouts, Ms. Lee had gotten $60,000.

Within hours of learning about the terrorist alert last week, New York's political establishment had renewed its demand that Washington reform its ways and recognize that the city needs a larger piece of the homeland security pie.

Within a few hours of learning the final targets, F.B.I. agents searched Mr. Krugel's home and garage, where they found several pounds of explosive powder, fuses, pipes and end caps for making bombs.

But it can actually be more comforting for the novice to know that a careless brush with the fin or a misplaced hand in those early hours of learning - when the whole weight-belt, buoyancy, kicking in a straight line-thing is so alien - is not going to knock off a delicate coral strand of global importance or slice your pinkie in two.

Its surveys show that pupils are potentially losing up to an hour of learning each day in English schools due to low-level disruption, which is equivalent to 38 days of teaching per year.

LONDON — Paul Howard-Jones thinks he knows the answer to a question that has long puzzled both parents and professors: Why is it that the same teenagers who turn sullen and despondent when faced with a half hour of learning French verbs or organic compounds are happy to spend hours mastering the computer game Minecraft's physics engine or the counterfactual history in Call of Duty?

His comments come after a report from the inspectorate found that students are losing up to an hour of learning each day, which is equivalent to 38 days of teaching per year, in English schools because of low-level disruption in the classroom.

A report says some pupils could be losing up to an hour of learning each day - or 38 days a year.

It suggests that low-level disruption, like swinging on chairs, passing notes around or using a mobile phone, is causing some pupils to lose up to an hour of learning a day or 38 days of teaching a year.