Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] work in " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIXTH formers are perfecting their accents as they set off for work in the French town of Dunkirk . |
| 2 | These are , for example , the nameless and faceless workers who lined up for work in response to Henry Ford 's visionary offer of a $5-per-day paycheck . |
| 3 | You 're the , you 're the driver and you 've got to get up for work in the morning and everything else . |
| 4 | Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him . |
| 5 | I was brought up to work in the garden with my father ; we had to grow vegetables ourselves because money was tight . |
| 6 | Joint declarations signed in Gothenburg with Hungary , Poland and Czechoslovakia [ see p. 37535 ] , on co-operation and the gradual establishment of free trade areas , were followed up by work in the respective joint committees . |
| 7 | The position of those out of work in Britain then was much harsher than it is today . |
| 8 | Although much attention has focused on the number of people out of work in recent years , less attention has been given to the number of family members who are also affected . |
| 9 | For comparison , there were 1,948 young people out of work in March 1991 and 2,759 in March 1986 . |
| 10 | In mid-Cornwall , for example , over a third of the male population has been out of work in recent years . |
| 11 | Betty Titford , Thomas 's wife , received help because she was sick ; Thomas himself was out of work in 1801 , and qualified for relief both on that score and because he was the head of a one-parent family which included a sick daughter ; Hephzibah , the little orphan , had been helped and then apprenticed by the overseers , and finally John and Ann , briefly subsidised during times of economic dearth , eventually survived long enough to collect a very modest old-age pension . |
| 12 | Nearly 2.9 million people are now out of work in the UK . |
| 13 | More people were out of work in 1986 than in the worst years of the 1930s and long-term or ‘ structural ’ unemployment is increasingly common . |
| 14 | A subsequent economic recovery followed , but unemployment was slow to fall , and 1 million were still out of work in June 1924 ( 9.2 per cent ) . |
| 15 | The total out of work in the town now stands at 27.6pc . |
| 16 | Unemployment statistics for January revealed that the numbers out of work in the former East Germany had increased to 1,340,000 , a rate of 17 per cent ( compared to 11.8 per cent in December ) , partly because of the end of several short-time working arrangements . |
| 17 | In 1980 , the percentage of the workforce out of work in the Southeast was 4.8% . |
| 18 | I came down here because they were running out of work in Scotland initially . |
| 19 | Between nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety two over a million skilled workers were put out of work in this economy , nearly half a million semi skilled workers lost their jobs . |
| 20 | While the proportion of people out of work in 1981 stood at 11.7pc in the North compared with 5.5pc in the South East , at the beginning of this year the figures were 12.1pc and 10.5pc respectively . |
| 21 | The number of people out of work in the North-East also rose slightly last month adding an extra 700 to the region 's dole queue . |
| 22 | Six years ago there were 6,211 out of work in the Darlington constituency , in January there were 4.365 . |
| 23 | From the end of the Eighties , when unemployment in the City was negligible , the number of people out of work in the Square Mile has climbed steadily . |
| 24 | It was a Labour MP who painted the most graphic picture of what it is like to be out of work in Britain . |
| 25 | Across the major developed economies of Europe , Australasia , North America and Japan , unemployment rose from 7.4 per cent of the work force in 1991 to 8.2 pct in 1992 , bringing the total out of work in these countries to 32.3 million . |
| 26 | The number out of work in Britain which had stood at little more than half a million in 1969 , had more than doubled by the end of the 1970s ( then almost doubled again in the following two years ) . |
| 27 | WORKERS at a Merseyide firm were today coming to terms with the news that they will be out of work in the New Year . |
| 28 | Sometimes , travelling back from work in the moonlight , I would allow myself to fall silent and to wonder what scenes this moon was shining on in the Western Desert , where I had learned that Leslie now was ; and whether he was in present danger . |
| 29 | I also wonder what will happen if I have a second child — Mark might not make it back from work in time to be with me . ’ |
| 30 | They have started working and er they have started going out to work in the factories as well . |