Example sentences of "for [adj] [noun pl] ' work " in BNC.
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| 1 | For shifting material with a horse and cart James Bell was paid £1 : 12s. : 0d. for eight days ' work . |
| 2 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 3 | ‘ Then you 'll owe me for six months ' work . ’ |
| 4 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 5 | Thatcher gets £250,000 for three days ' work |
| 6 | Crawford , as a post office clerk further down the cast , was paid just 350 for five weeks ' work . |
| 7 | The cost of employing the consultant — up to £1000 for five days ' work — is split between the bank and the company . |
| 8 | After initial support from the Department of Employment , Compact has raised funds for four years ' work from Merseyside Training and Enterprise Council , Liverpool City Council and the private sector . |
| 9 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 10 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 11 | The two-year job as a member of South Glamorgan Health Authority is worth £5,000 a year , for two days ' work a month . |
| 12 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |