Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] long hours " in BNC.
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1 | In fact the staff tend to work longer hours , midweek and weekends , serving breakfast , lunch and evening meals to delegates , as well as function buffets , often working from 7.00am until late at night . |
2 | In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy . |
3 | teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ; |
4 | He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers . |
5 | Hatters were said to have long hours — " a man goes early and stays late " — but no fixed hours . |
6 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
7 | But with the resurgence in business , those who are left are having to work long hours to ensure that the quality of service to clients is not affected , and she believes that she will have to start recruiting again before long . |
8 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
9 | Well I use , I use to work longer hours . |
10 | With the rapid decline in the mining industry during the late nineteenth century , men were forced to work longer hours or to seek work abroad and this shared life largely disappeared . |
11 | The safety record in the private sector is worse , because it reflects the fact that those in the private sector are already forced to work longer hours . |
12 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
13 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
14 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
15 | Despite the implementation of a Factory Act in 1916 and growing agitation in the early 1920s , many urban workers continued to work long hours for meagre wages in unhealthy and dangerous environments , and live on inadequate nourishment in slum conditions . |
16 | This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion . |
17 | When the heat is on at work and you are required to work longer hours , are you unable to maintain your eating pattern ? |