Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] long hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 2 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 3 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 4 | They are designed to cut out the reflective glare that can be potentially harmful to someone spending long hours working in front of a computer screen . |
| 5 | Both sub-units are involved in internal security duties which demand long hours of vigilance , which must be managed carefully to avoid routine and monotony . |
| 6 | The women and girls who worked long hours , often by candlelight , to supplement the meagre incomes their menfolk earned as farm labourers , used wheat straw cut by hand by the local farmers , to prevent the stems being broken by machinery . |
| 7 | It was n't a very happy family , her father , who worked long hours as an engineer , hit her mother and sometimes the children too , but he never hit Noreen . |
| 8 | Nicholas Roe concluded our conversation rather surprisingly by saying : ‘ Billingsgate is a really tough environment , you work long hours and grow old quickly . |
| 9 | When you work long hours with people , bonds are inevitably formed . |
| 10 | We spent long hours in stationary trains in railway-sidings , in grey towns under greyer skies . |
| 11 | We work long hours and |
| 12 | This had entailed him working long hours . |
| 13 | They spend long hours in the weeks before the Sale crouching at a table at a dangerous angle of 45°s ; in an airless subterranean cupboard off The Undercroft , arranging the unwanted gifts . |
| 14 | They work long hours . ’ |
| 15 | About Indians who live abroad , he says : ‘ They work long hours , give large discounts , open when everyone else is closed and become well-off shopkeepers . |
| 16 | He toiled long hours , and devoted himself to Mother 's needs . |
| 17 | He spent long hours in the House of Commons and he was skilful at the quiet conduct of minor business . |
| 18 | It takes long hours in the laboratory to convert deadly greenery into a possible lifesaver . |
| 19 | He resented the inadequacy of the library , in which he worked long hours during such time as he was there . |
| 20 | His early ventures into freelance design had been reasonably successful ; with Leonie 's encouragement he worked long hours as a restaurant porter to earn enough money to buy a couple of ancient industrial machines which he set up at one end of the living room of his mother 's house . |
| 21 | It was n't the hard work he minded , he liked work , he liked long hours , he did n't want to slack off : it was the anxiety he could n't stand . |