Example sentences of "to work long [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a Churchill decaying physically , slower in the uptake , less able to work long hours , less interested in the peacetime problems of the country , but still well enough to make his own decisions . |
| 2 | teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ; |
| 3 | The agricultural working class , deprived of a subsistence on the land by the enclosures of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , thronged to the cities of the Midlands and the North where the economics of laissez-faire forced them to work long hours in wretched conditions for miserable wages , and threw them out of employment altogether as soon as there was a downturn in the market . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 6 | But with the resurgence in business , those who are left are having to work long hours to ensure that the quality of service to clients is not affected , and she believes that she will have to start recruiting again before long . |
| 7 | In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy . |
| 8 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 9 | One alternative often offered by professionals as a solution to personal assistance needs requires young people to work long hours for a ‘ dole plus ’ package . |
| 10 | Despite the implementation of a Factory Act in 1916 and growing agitation in the early 1920s , many urban workers continued to work long hours for meagre wages in unhealthy and dangerous environments , and live on inadequate nourishment in slum conditions . |
| 11 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 12 | Pilots have complained that airlines force them to work long hours , new jets are being grounded or sent back to the manufacturers for modification , and the government has been attacked for a series of embarrassing lapses at major airports . |
| 13 | But in the context of the mid-Sixties , when Britain 's chaotic labour relations were deemed to be among the world 's worst , such good-natured willingness to work long hours , doing all kinds of jobs , for sums of money that were not vast , are extraordinary . |
| 14 | So I respected him , and was glad to work long hours in his stuffy little offices , learning better Spanish and the workings of a paper ; learning also something about Porua , whom I studied with almost servile interest . |
| 15 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But put aside the party point scoring and one indisputable fact emerges which will readily be agreed by all health service staff are a breed apart with their dedication to duty , willingness to work long hours and commitment to patient care . |
| 18 | It is now left to the individual to choose whether to work longer hours , and those willing to work on Sunday can continue to do so . |
| 19 | COLLEGE lecturers at Colchester Institute are to strike in protest over new contracts forcing them to work longer hours including weekends and bank holidays . |
| 20 | In fact the staff tend to work longer hours , midweek and weekends , serving breakfast , lunch and evening meals to delegates , as well as function buffets , often working from 7.00am until late at night . |
| 21 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
| 22 | When the heat is on at work and you are required to work longer hours , are you unable to maintain your eating pattern ? |
| 23 | If a worker 's earnings are taxed , his or her motivation to work longer hours , to buy the prized new car or video , is increased . |
| 24 | With the rapid decline in the mining industry during the late nineteenth century , men were forced to work longer hours or to seek work abroad and this shared life largely disappeared . |
| 25 | The safety record in the private sector is worse , because it reflects the fact that those in the private sector are already forced to work longer hours . |
| 26 | When , for example , some weaving households were at an adverse point in their family cycles , they might welcome the chance to work longer hours than the typical factory shift . |
| 27 | You 're prepared to work longer hours , to get the work done . |
| 28 | Well I use , I use to work longer hours . |