Example sentences of "three hours a week " in BNC.

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1 Recent calls by the Home Office Minister , John Patten , for those who are successful to give three hours a week to voluntary causes could be taken more seriously if overall government policy were not pushing people in the opposite direction .
2 Hainge maintains he does n't make any special preparations for visitors apart from the three hours a week that he puts in routinely .
3 In the schools in his survey , 22 hours a week were devoted to the 3Rs , two hours a week spent on the creative arts and three hours a week given over to other studies .
4 In 1985–86 , for example , Roehampton Institute engaged a headteacher to work with a college for six hours a week and ten other teachers for three hours a week .
5 Thus , for example , although a miner might not personally believe that a university professor teaching three hours a week for 25 weeks of the year is doing a more worthy or important job than himself , he will nevertheless rank this occupation above his own in the construction of a prestige hierarchy because he has learnt that ‘ professors are more important than miners ’ .
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7 A survey recently conducted in the US established that the average business person spends over three hours a week searching for misplaced information .
8 Recruits will be asked to work for two or three hours a week at Hugh Baird 's Oriel Road adult learning centre .
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