Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [art] week " in BNC.
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1 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
2 | Apart from his own studies , Tetsu teaches English and mathematics to children ; he had taught eight hours a week over the past year to finance this , his first trip outside his homeland . |
3 | We spent eight hours a week listening to the radio — but mainly while doing something else . |
4 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
5 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
6 | In addition Mrs scheme at page forty three provides for a further twenty eight hours a week to be provided in some other way , that it is suggested is parental care , but it seems to me that it would either be parental care or hired care . |
7 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
8 | Thirty eight hour thirty eight hours a week Bill 's . |
9 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
10 | Heavier caring responsibilities were clearly associated with lower rates of employment ; only about one-fifth of working-age women providing more than fifty hours a week care for an elderly person were employed , compared with two-thirds of married women and half of all single ( never-married ) women caring for less than twenty hours a week ( McLaughlin , 1989 ) . |
11 | ‘ There are three or four attempted suicides every week , ’ Nicholson said , his tone emotionless . |
12 | I am more concerned about employers who employ only a few people and whose main criterion is the flexibility of being able to take on staff , to change their hours from time to time and , on occasions , to get them to work 60 or 70 hours a week when they are busy . |
13 | We do that in Parliament and my minicab drivers tell me that they work about 60 or 70 hours a week . |
14 | But how many of those blokes carrying signs outside Black Comedy can take the falls I do eight times a week ? |
15 | He told Pat , she remembers , ‘ I 'm not going to break my back eight times a week in the theatre . ’ |
16 | In fact , she was very old ; she was twenty-four years old and she worked in the mill and earned eight shillings a week . |
17 | He regards eight shillings a week for those in work as quite sufficient , even for a family with eight children , for after all people who work in the open air , a healthy life , do not require as much food as those in manufacturing districts . |
18 | and there be twenty eight shillings a week , that 's all I allowed him and because that was even better than labour money and so the day , they , I had to keep that they stopped all me labour , so cos I had the money you see . |
19 | Er and I remember , I remember Street West , when the right hand side of Street west going from Road , every house was empty before the First World War and they gave somebody er somebody who lives in the end one and they were rent free if they keep all the rest clean , and always you see house to let where wherever it was in every street there was houses to let , and the price of the house in Street must be about eight shillings a week in those days , and then if you went up to I mean you 'd get in the twelve and sixpenny bracket and down in , those houses down in the that they were ten and six or something like that er |
20 | In England at that time shop girls would have a weekly wage of about twenty-five shillings so John Tiller was giving dancers an excellent deal by paying them fifty shillings a week when on tour , matinées providing an extra ten shillings . |
21 | Oh eleven shillings I think it was eleven shillings a week . |
22 | ‘ We would never let it become specialised , although , as children grow older , we 've got to move towards a middle school model , so there is specialised teaching in maths and humanities ; they actually go to different teachers for four complete sessions a week . ’ |
23 | Just one , one buying those damn cylinders every week to ten days ! |
24 | Thirdly , he was a politician and in the last 20 years of his life , he gave 3 political speeches a week in different parts of the country and wrote a number of books on the train going from one speaking engagement to another to avoid wasting time . |
25 | Twenty-six of the forty women have nineteen or fewer social contacts a week ; thirteen have more . |
26 | Meanwhile , Hawk — 6ft tall with a 56in chest — an inspector for Welsh Water when he 's not beating innocent victims to a pulp , spends 12 hours a week in the gym to build up those biceps . |
27 | Sponsored by Wedgwood , Ray attended Staffordshire University for around nine hours each week and studied at home for a further 12 hours a week . |
28 | For the first few months they earned only a few pennies a week between them and Sal became convinced they would all end up in the workhouse if they kept failing to cough up the rent . |
29 | After spending 300 hours a week in the studio , the last thing I want to listen to when I come home is heavy techno . |
30 | Only eight consultants held one to one teaching or tutorials for their house officers and most consultants estimated their total teaching time to be less than 30 minutes a week . |