Example sentences of "work [prep] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon it became clear that Sarah was seriously ill with rheumatic fever and would not be able to work for some time , and another girl , Hetty , was engaged temporarily . |
| 2 | Phone call from our School Nurse to let us know that the School Doctor , who had to cancel medicals because of illness , is out of hospital but will not be back to work for some time . |
| 3 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 4 | To be ready to work at all times . |
| 5 | It adds that ARC Northern had permission for quarrying and treatment of stone , apart from the roadstone coating , to work at all times , including Sundays . |
| 6 | I crossed it out because I thought it was gon na say cos I thought it said , survey managers are instructed to work at all times |
| 7 | Tell me something of the hours you used to work at that time . |
| 8 | Of course , we had to walk to work at that time o' day . |
| 9 | At recent rates about 80 per cent of married women can expect to work at some time in their married lifetime ( Martin and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 10 | I always get on very well with English prisoners of the R. A. F. I worked for some time at the prison camp where you 'll be going tomorrow , and there I made many good English friends , especially — . ’ |
| 11 | Panerai , as you say , I worked with many times . |
| 12 | The same article also claimed that the late Tom Driberg , who worked at various times for both MI5 and the KGB , was also involved in getting Blake out of prison and back to Russia . |
| 13 | I worked at one time for a man who was incredibly able at doing his job , apparently effortlessly . |
| 14 | Catherine Turnbull , Magdalene Avenue , Carrville , Durham : I worked at that time on public transport , Durham and district . |
| 15 | Because I have worked for some time now on the forming of music and sounds , and through this specific endeavour have become aware of the " molecular structure " parallel , I can see great form in " Beautiful Landscape Traversed By Electricity Pylons " , " Tiny Aeroplane In One Expansive Sky " , " One Cup of Tea With Spoon And Attached Shadows " , " One Bogey Slightly Protruding From Person 's Nose " and , apart from when I 'm blackly depressed , Life is seen from inside me to be better every day because of my positive use of the rich energy that is emitted from every thing , live or dead . |
| 16 | You may be expected as well to have already worked for some time in a related financial area , such as stock broking . |
| 17 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 18 | Under Dušan the Serbs had encouraged German miners ( known as Saxons ) from Transylvania to develop the mines of Kosovo , some of which had been worked in Roman times . |
| 19 | At the lower end of the scale , this might be little more than a garden allotment worked in spare time to supplement the income from a full-time job . |
| 20 | The main occupation of the village throughout the centuries was obviously agriculture , but three quarries have been worked since Roman times , and the oolitic limestone is found in many local churches , including Beverley minster . |
| 21 | They mainly worked on the final phase of a mapping and mineral exploration programme on the island of Santa Isabel , in which four BGS geologists have worked at various times over a six-year period . |
| 22 | Volunteers worked on research alongside their paid counterparts and Burley recalls the hundreds of Spanish and Portuguese POCs on whose behalf Amnesty worked at that time . |
| 23 | Fifteen hundred men worked at one time in what became the largest copper mine in Europe — a vast open-cast quarry hewn out of the hilltop . |
| 24 | While 42 ( 69 per cent ) interviewees had worked at some time or other , the overwhelming majority ( 89 per cent ) were unemployed at the time of interview . |
| 25 | It should , however , be observed that labouring people produced numerous prose works during this time . |
| 26 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 27 | First appearing as tiny black spots on the upper surfaces of leaves , this is the outward sign that the fungus has already been inside the tissue and working for some time . |
| 28 | But if I 've been away working for some time , it 's completely different . |
| 29 | Ms Tutweiller will be working towards that time because she plans to be back with a vengeance — when Baker challenges President Bill Clinton for the White House in four years ' time . |
| 30 | Estimators often work against considerable time pressures and look for ways to win jobs and at the same time make a profit . |