Sentence examples for practicing up to from inspiring English sources

While in high school he studied with the guitarist Dennis Sandole in Philadelphia before taking lessons with the jazz artist Jim Hall, all the while practicing up to 14 hours a day, Mr. Loeb said.

In 1991, the novelist Jonathan Franzen was at Yaddo, the artists' colony in upstate New York, thinking about American fiction, specifically the competing claims of postmodernism (which he had been practicing up to that time) and traditional storytelling fiction (to which he soon converted, in "The Corrections").

If this is too much, keep practicing up to this part until your chops have gotten strong enough to move on.

She practiced up to eight hours a day and performed at 10 with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; at 17, she won the 1992 Bach International Competition in Leipzig, Germany.

He practiced up to six hours per day (even after he joined Metallica).

Since its inception in 1894, its members, known as BQs (for Band Qualified or Band Queer), eat together, sleep in the same dormitories, and practice up to 40 hours per week on top of a full academic schedule.

Since its inception in 1894, its members eat together, sleep in the same dormitories, and practice up to forty hours per week on top of a full academic schedule.

Elite gamers, who often practice up to 12 hours a day, are treated like rock stars, drawing massive audiences to their matches and earning hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.

About half (51%) of the group regularly practiced up to two such behaviours, about one third (31,2%) reported using three to four, and only 19,8% more than four of these protection measures.

Some drivers practice up to 7 days a week.

If you think this is hard, spare a thought for Enrico Rastelli, who could juggle 10 balls at a time![1] (He did practice up to 12 hours a day!).