Example sentences of "[adj] hours of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , after a series of late nights and lie-ins ( holidays for example ) , it might be time to get back to our normal hours of work ; alternatively , on retirement , a lifetime of early morning rising can be altered . |
| 2 | Briefing on business matters should include basic details such as normal hours of work as well as information on the structure of the work-force , including the nationalities of which it is comprised and where , if any , skill shortages exist . |
| 3 | Employees visiting clients away from the workplace , particularly outside normal hours of duty |
| 4 | Later , she 'd unpack , later she 'd explore Marigot Bay , later she 'd organise herself some supper , later she 'd start feeling excited , privileged , ecstatically lucky to be here … later she 'd do all kinds of things , but right now ten solid hours of travelling , the latter part in that bone-shaker of a van , had left her utterly spent . |
| 5 | Both are likely to involve low hours of work , the absence of any formal documentation of the employment relationship ( for example a contract of employment ) , and earnings below the tax and social insurance thresholds . |
| 6 | The lower level of wives ' earnings is accounted for , in one sense , by women 's lower hours of work and lower rates of pay per hour . |
| 7 | It 's thirty six to forty eight hours of standby |
| 8 | We just use whatever plane we can for as long as it takes : Singapore in eight hours of helicopter flight , Egypt in 50 . |
| 9 | It may well strain belief that eight hours of enjoyment can make primary school children comfortable with chemical ideas that are being chopped out of GCSE syllabuses , yet this much and more can be achieved by challenging a teaching tradition that is almost as unhelpful to chemistry as phlogiston was . |
| 10 | EIGHT hours of athletics at Bebington on Saturday will go a long way to deciding who goes on a two-day trip to Blackpool next month . |
| 11 | Eight hours of election result coverage will be followed by ‘ Goodbye to the Old Days ’ . |
| 12 | Our breath is moist and our sweat evaporates ; one person ‘ produces ’ a quarter of a litre of water during eight hours of sleep , and as much a litre and a half during an active day . |
| 13 | The most important thing to remember is that a foal should get adequate colostrum from the mare in the first four to eight hours of life . |
| 14 | Judge John Helman dismissed the jury after the foreman reported that , after eight hours of deliberation , there was no prospect of an agreed verdict . |
| 15 | The exchange value of eight hours of labour will therefore be £10 and this will equal the value added by the worker to raw materials . |
| 16 | It had been a wet May with a few scarce hours of sunshine at the beginning of the month and little since , but today the grey skies that had hung over the land like a shroud had broken , and high white clumps of cloud were bowling swiftly across the blue sky betokening a day of good weather . |
| 17 | Yet Cottle did not have the extensive hours of study available to the modern undergraduate . |
| 18 | The advanced course in information retrieval covers some 70 hours of study which includes a considerable part devoted to online information retrieval . |
| 19 | The Profitboss has seen the effect of prolonged hours of work , has seen the fatigue , the bad decisions , the poor-quality workmanship and the poor service . |
| 20 | If you look at an American kit for say , £10,000 to £14,000 , which then requires in excess of 500 hours of sweat equity , the Chevron does n't look bad value after all . |
| 21 | There is a very large total number of television national channels , total hours of TV production and total revenue ; but each national system still regards its own expenditure as inadequate and imports programming from other countries , notably the USA . |
| 22 | Lucy Jackson pioneered our answer after painstaking hours of study , blood , sweat and tears and disillusion — a FASTER FITNESS programme based on the ‘ follow me ’ principle , but maintaining the underlying basics of Medau movement , including a slower rate of floor work to balance the more active elements . |
| 23 | The average daily temperature in October/November is around 88 degrees Farenheit with six/eight hours of sunshine per day . |
| 24 | A PUBLICAN who set fire to his car and tried to claim insurance has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service . |
| 25 | It was also the dullest October since 1976 with an average of just 2.4 hours of sunshine a day . |
| 26 | Lesbian representation accounted for just 0.06 per cent of total television and radio output — 25 minutes out of 688 hours of broadcasting . |
| 27 | They had 100 hours and 120 hours of teaching practice respectively . |
| 28 | By sticking to a small basic unit ( 100 or 120 hours of student effort ) delivered across terms ( three per year , and with the development of a summer school , potentially four ) Oxford has established a pattern of regular assessment , and regular award-making examinations boards , that depends upon an intensity of academic staff commitment that other institutions would find difficult if not impossible to implement within the current framework of practice and conditions of service . |
| 29 | That hours of work were stated for many trades does not mean that they were always worked to the full . |
| 30 | I took the coach , and after thirty-six hours of travelling I got down at Thornfield village , and almost ran across the fields in my hurry to see the well-known house again , and its owner . |