Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] work [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In cases of multiple debt , we reckon on 12 hours to work through the inquiry , ’ she added . |
| 2 | ‘ I spent 12 years working in the NHS and I did n't come into politics to privatise it . ’ |
| 3 | There are about 300 undergraduates working in the School and some 45 research students . |
| 4 | 140 civilians work at the base and those who ca n't be transferred to other defence jobs will be made redundant . |
| 5 | Although there are 45 OSFers and 105 outsiders working on the project , Gossel said at least one of these , Hewlett-Packard , is working without a contract but that it is a perfectly normal situation at OSF . |
| 6 | Fiona Hunter , our nutritionist ( see below right ) , is a qualified dietician who spent six years working in the NHS . |
| 7 | By 1985 there were 1,512 specialist fraud officers in benefits offices , as well as another 112 officers working in the specialist claims control ( SCC ) . |
| 8 | Then , barely 1,200 employees worked at the yard and the employee-led VSEL buy-out team built it back up to 2,500 . |
| 9 | It is already home to three artists working in the studio upstairs and has a large cafe cum exhibition space and a poetry room . |
| 10 | During her three days working in the Toronto Skydome she made friends with an athlete who now writes to her in Chinese . |
| 11 | In a debate called by Labour on the Government 's economic record , Mr Jones ( Alyn and Deeside ) said his 600 constituents working for the firm were ‘ perplexed ’ at the move . |
| 12 | Dreamflight was the brainchild of British Airways colleagues Patricia Pearce and Derek Pereira back in 1986 , and has now grown into a ‘ roadshow ’ of 350 adults working around the clock to help ease the physical pain suffered by their young charges . |
| 13 | VHAI is a non-profit federation of over 3,000 organisations working in the field of health and community development . |
| 14 | VHAI is a non-profit federation of over 3,000 organisations working in the field of health and community development . |
| 15 | Stacks of weathering timber stood between them in the days when four thousand men worked in the shipyard at the height of the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 16 | An agronomist who had spent 25 years working with the UN Food and Agricultural Organization and with the World Bank , Dacosta on Dec. 25 presented a government of " national unity " . |
| 17 | Like it is n't you know that the Eucharist , er the the the communion is very central to our worship and having had ten years working at the Navy that was an eye opener and deepening of my own spiritual awareness in the , as in the sanctity that I got , the sacrament and how other churches see it and er helped to create a very affirm , at the very centre of my own if you like , pilgrimage . |
| 18 | By 1841 , when 1,079 people lived in the village , 107 men and boys and just 3 females worked at the trade . |
| 19 | But the 160 men working at the Midlothian pit are now hoping that a series of meetings this week will secure both the future of the colliery and their jobs . |
| 20 | THE DIRECTORS ' COLLECTION ( Tartan £15.99 each ) A formidable collection of directors ' first titles will be released over the next 12 months — the first set of five covers work by the likes of Scorsese , Coppola and Robert Altman . |
| 21 | At the age of 30 , he had spent nine years working in the family haulage business . |
| 22 | Remind me to tell you some time over a beer ’ — he had lived in Shetland for five years working on the rigs . |
| 23 | This last week McGeechan will have had four or five nights working on the videos , and preparing the training sessions . |
| 24 | At the beginning of the century Dre-fach Felindre was the main centre of the Welsh woollen industry with over 40 mills working in the locality . |
| 25 | The 1863–67 register records 30 framework knitters , 2 framesmiths and 21 labourers ; 9 men worked on the railways , 1 was a coal merchant , 1 a gas house keeper and another a gas fitter ; the other craftsmen comprised 4 bricklayers and a brickmaker , 3 blacksmiths , 2 tailors , 2 shoemakers , 2 potters , 2 carpenters , a wheelwright , a cooper , a plumber and glazier , and a painter ; the rest included 2 gentlemen , a clerk in holy orders , a surgeon , 3 farmers , 2 general dealers , 2 grocers , a draper , 2 cattle dealers , 7 butchers , a tripe dresser , a pig jobber , a fellmonger , 2 gardeners , 2 grooms , a coachman and 2 commercial travellers . |
| 26 | As Germany was to use state finance to a remarkable degree in launching German industry , so in the 1920s and 1930s Poles working through the Bank Polski were to use state finance derived from France to build their own industrial projects like the new port at Gdynia . |
| 27 | Nearly all the 65 contributors work in the United Kingdom , a bias that has slightly influenced the selection of topics and viewpoints . |
| 28 | It included funding to employ 414,000 teenagers to work in the summer of 1992 in jobs administered through the Department of Labour . |
| 29 | The Centre of Medical Law and Ethics has spent two years working with the Terence Higgins Trust to develop the document currently under consideration . |
| 30 | After 14 years working in the post room , post messenger Tom Chandler departed on a high note on March 4 . |