Example sentences of "[adj] hours a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | But it 's , we 've got to get them motivated and I 'm asking today , you know , we need more help and if you can spare a few hours a week it would be more than appreciated . |
2 | For a man who found it difficult to write for more than three hours a day it was one way of passing time but , more importantly , as he explained in an address in 1951 , it was necessary for him to hold a job which other people considered useful ; he had so little confidence in his own work that he did not want to risk wasting all of his time upon it . |
3 | These 20 hours are on top of the average 35 hours a week he spends in his regular job . |
4 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
5 | want you know the the key thing is to discover what how much work a week you know how many hours a week they think it 's going to take now that 's |
6 | As soon as Maastricht comes into force , the commission and Belgium , which takes on the EC presidency next month , intend to work however many hours a week it takes to push through the works-council directive . |
7 | We were all getting fed up with it cos , having to stay on the gate five hours a day you know , three or four times a week . |
8 | The automatic clothes dryer does not save a woman the four or five hours a week she used to spend at the clothes line , if , for instance , she runs her washing machine and dryer every day … |
9 | For at least fifteen hours a day they get us from A to B and take our body weight . |