Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] ' work [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 2 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
| 3 | Although the original biological positivists ' work was overwhelmingly concerned with the causes of crime , they were associated with a particular penal programme as well . |
| 4 | A review of the training content of junior doctors ' work is long overdue : a recent survey found that only 3% of juniors ' working time was spent on training . |
| 5 | Over 1,000,000 days ' work were lost due to strikes in the first quarter of 1991 , a figure exceeded in the second quarter under the combined impact of continuing miners ' strikes and protest strikes against price increases . |
| 6 | Feedback and evaluation of the two days ' work was made before the participants dispersed . |
| 7 | There is a kind of Cabinet question time ( Kabinettsbefragung ) but it is not especially popular : most members ' work is taken up largely with committee work . |
| 8 | The flower that blossomed from earlier pioneers ' work is fading . |