Example sentences of "a [adj] working day " in BNC.
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| 1 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 2 | Go through a normal working day and write down where the pressures are most difficult . |
| 3 | They offer no specific training , but they assess a person 's capacity and carry out vocational aptitude tests as well as offering a working routine to re-accustom the disabled person to the demands of a normal working day . |
| 4 | ‘ In a normal working day , I earn around 3 to 6 . |
| 5 | This will be a normal working day for the man and after work he might go off to the pub for a drink with his mates . |
| 6 | His typical working week would be short indeed if he did not consider Saturday as a normal working day — but was it ? |
| 7 | The big foyer was deserted compared with a normal working day . |
| 8 | The most striking example of this was the giving way of a work-centred culture to a home-centred one , as a result of a diminishing working day , the institution of the free weekend , the introduction of Bank Holidays , and the growing geographical separation of home from work as , in many towns , the working class followed the middle class out of the inner , industrial areas . |
| 9 | Prepare a computer schedule for a typical working day when the systems described in 5.2.5 are available to Oxford University Press . |
| 10 | In a typical working day the Profitboss will make a thousand decisions . |
| 11 | ‘ A typical working day starts by drafting legal observations on a range of committee reports for the Community Services Committee . |
| 12 | It also aimed to " establish , so far as may be possible , a uniform rate of pay for the same class of worker in all ports and to establish a recognised working day and other regulations in the ports of the world " . |
| 13 | There is , however , plenty of evidence from contemporaries , as well as from historians , that not all husbands were drunken brutes and that many would willingly take a hand at quietening the baby for an hour or two after a long working day , or take tea up to their wives before leaving for work . |
| 14 | Concentrate on the things you can do well within a reasonable working day , establishing the priorities as you go along . |
| 15 | I remembered something Zaria had said about clocking on at eight in the morning and eight-to-four seemed a reasonable working day . |
| 16 | When there is no longer the contrast of a busy working day outside , coming back to an empty home can be less attractive , as shown in the situation described below . |
| 17 | A FRIENDLY face can do a lot to ease the pressures of a busy working day . |
| 18 | They were drinking in the Red Anchor ; it was noon or just past , and still a full working day . |
| 19 | The miners were opposing company plans to introduce a continuous working day but finally called off the strike after accepting higher pay and bonuses . |
| 20 | In the towns there was by then " a recognisable working day and working week " . |
| 21 | Princess Margaret Rose on a rare working day at the Rutland Railway Centre . |
| 22 | Later this month , an official review committee of Labour MPs , which has already described the working hours as ‘ largely indefensible ’ , will produce proposals for a new working day , probably involving ministerial question-times during morning sittings , and an end to business by 7pm ( compare the midday-to-7pm sittings of Congress ) . |
| 23 | The principal demands were for a 50 per cent increase in wages and pensions , a six-hour working day ( and no night-shifts ) for women , and the bringing to justice of those responsible for the deaths in Shkodër in April [ see p. 38160 ] . |