Example sentences of "many hours [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 2 | It 's different hiring people here too : everybody has a contract that specifies exactly how many hours they have to work , length of vacations everything ’ . |
| 3 | Most manual workers in Britain receive a weekly wage which is determined by how many hours they work , how much they produce , or some combination of the two . |
| 4 | Cos they keep telling cos I owe them so many hours they keep coming up to me and telling me that I owe them so many hours , you signed the contract saying you 've got whatever happens . |
| 5 | The many hours we have spent playing , seeing , hearing whilst making these films have taught us a great deal . |
| 6 | There is no chart telling us just how many hours we should be sleeping ; indeed it varies greatly from person to person . |
| 7 | The nurses here wrote down every day on Stephen 's chart how many hours he had cried , but neither Sloan nor Dr Turner turned a hair when they looked at that on the chart ; all they cared about was the weight curve . |
| 8 | He took a pride in his job and he did n't mind how many hours he put in as long as he got paid for them . |
| 9 | Cos I remember the duties , there used to be a driver you would get more pay for bringing the bus , one man , so underneath each duty was just how many , how many hours he was one man and how many two men . |
| 10 | Kilowatts , rate of using it up , times how many hours you 've used it . |
| 11 | He 's alright , I did n't get no hassles about like , that , no matter how many hours she 's awake she never grumbles of being tired |
| 12 | Slightly convex with fleur-de-lys on a shield , the lettering is very ornate but after many hours I read it as AVE MARIA GRAVIA . |
| 13 | Yes when when there were three men Right when there were three men , that 's how many hours it took . |
| 14 | To sit in a car with that Cook woman for however many hours it was , I simply could n't do it ! |
| 15 | But she 's offered me a relief post as I say , where I go round and help but she do n't know how many hours it will be . |