Example sentences of "work [art] [adj] week " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was also a device to increase productivity : everyone was to work a five-day week . |
| 2 | It is not unusual for women to work a 40-hour week , followed by a further 40-hour week of domestic chores . |
| 3 | It formed part of a package including a 6 per cent pay rise over one year beginning on June 1 , supplemented by one-off payments to cover April and May , and it was agreed that 18 per cent of the workers in a plant would be allowed to volunteer to work a 40-hour week in the interests of flexibility . |
| 4 | It is not uncommon for young surgeons in our hospitals to work an 80-hour week . |
| 5 | And a , I was like Harry , you could , I could work the whole week and I , I would n't be dirty . |
| 6 | Under the new contracts staff would work a 37-hour week and have 35 days holiday to be taken at the management 's discretion . |
| 7 | To one soldier who told him he worked a seven-day week , the Prime Minister retorted : ‘ I know the feeling . ’ |
| 8 | To one soldier who told him he worked a seven-day week , the Prime Minister retorted : ‘ I know the feeling . ’ |
| 9 | Well look at a miner I mean if he worked three days a week he might only get thirty shillings , in tho very very very seldom worked a full week . |
| 10 | Betty Gilling started work the following week . |
| 11 | The majority of women employed there work a 15-hour week and consequently do n't pay a National Insurance stamp and lose maternity rights and pay . |
| 12 | So if I was working a full week , Sunday to Sunday , the next day would be my rest day , and the next week , it would be a Tuesday . |
| 13 | Our plants have got to work seven days a week , but with people working a four-day week . |
| 14 | Both plants are already working a four-day week . |
| 15 | This is the story of one man who , at 80 , still works a 50-hour week despite having retired from all Samaritan offices except that of Founder , and who still cares ‘ very passionately about human suffering , and would like to continue to do something to alleviate it , on however modest a scale ’ . |