Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] long [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy . |
| 2 | teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ; |
| 3 | He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers . |
| 4 | Hatters were said to have long hours — " a man goes early and stays late " — but no fixed hours . |
| 5 | The lucky ones had bikes but most had to walk long distances to meet up with their friends . |
| 6 | When the flaking is done skilfully , only light hand pressure with a piece of wood is needed to detach long slivers of material which can themselves be used as knives . |
| 7 | The fact that many prisoners have routinely had to spend long periods in their cells without access to a toilet , having to use chamber pots and queue up to ‘ slop out ’ , has been a potent symbol of the squalor of British prisons . |
| 8 | Solitary dolphins have been known to spend long periods around human settlements , encounters which attest to their humour , playfulness , curiosity and gentleness , and their readiness to help humans in distress . |
| 9 | His scouts had assessed that the enemy numbers would reach around twenty thousand , and were moving fairly fast , a mounted host save for the Islesmen and Highlanders who , trained to proceed long distances at the run , and lightly clad , did not hold up the horse to any extent . |
| 10 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
| 11 | My toes went numb , and at the primary school that we attended I was n't allowed to wear long trousers at my age . |
| 12 | Foreign investors would be allowed to take long leases on land , and the under-utilised port would be thrown open to foreign traders . |
| 13 | This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion . |