Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' [adj] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was both their backgrounds — a boy taken from a bleak past into a glorious future by a dedicated schoolteacher — and furthermore this acting business got him off duty , paid him as much cash as a miner 's weekly wage for a few hours ' easy work and had a satisfying tint of glamour … |
| 2 | You can not counterfeit forty years ' honest work , or get the same result by being a clever young man who prefers vanilla to orange or heliotrope to lavender perfume . |
| 3 | But at last , after three hours ' hard work , all ninety-nine were on the ship , and the Fram went out to sea again . |
| 4 | The programme was the product of three weeks ' intensive work by President Mikhail Gorbachev and his advisers to produce a compromise between Stanislav Shatalin " s radical proposals and the more cautious plan produced by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov . |
| 5 | ‘ The Adventists have an agreement with the Town Hall to give each woman 100 pounds weight of donated US foods monthly , in exchange for three days ' municipal work a week . ’ |
| 6 | Success was the fruit of some three years ' strenuous work . |
| 7 | The vicar added that unless the new church was allowed three years ' hard work would have been wasted . |
| 8 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 9 | Suddenly to be offered , fruit of ten years ' hard work , this plum … . |
| 10 | These estimates assume eight years out of work altogether and twelve years ' part-time work subsequently . |
| 11 | As usual , de Gaulle 's language was loaded : " dispersion " really meant pluralism ; " facilité " meant the French people 's understandable impatience to begin enjoying the rewards of twenty years ' hard work . |
| 12 | But all this comes at a cost , one which McDeere only realises as his new employers ' real work becomes increasingly clear . |
| 13 | — Ten acres of open land in the middle of Aycliffe Industrial Estate , Newton Aycliffe , have been turned into a wildlife site after two years ' hard work . |
| 14 | She also does two afternoons ' voluntary work at the school which her children attend . |