Example sentences of "work a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This last is one of the first essentials of a true Suffolk ; for it was bred for use on the farm , and for use on the Suffolk farms in particular , where it was the custom for the horses to work a long day from 6.30 a.m. to 2.30 p.m. without nosebag or any break for rations . |
| 2 | Men , on the other hand , it was suggested , preferred to work a normal day and were not very fond of shift work . |
| 3 | When , in 1808 , the cotton weavers were forced to work a sixteen-hour day for a subsistence wage , they complained bitterly : " there never was a time before the present when the workman could not live by his trade " . |
| 4 | In 1874 , aged fifteen , George became ‘ apprenticed to chemistry ’ in Worcester and was often obliged to work a fourteen-hour day . |
| 5 | He 's gon na work a standard day . |
| 6 | Many London factories worked a twenty-four-hour day , and their chimneys only stopped belching smoke on Sundays . |
| 7 | Barton worked a sixteen-hour day , which began with careful , detailed consideration of the trading figures and key ratios for every one of his forty-three major shops and the output of both factories , and continued , usually by helicopter , with a detailed aerial survey of a particular area as the quick way of identifying new sites , interspersed with unheralded descents on the manager of any shop he took a fancy to visit . |
| 8 | She worked a sixteen-hour day , returning to the flat where she often stayed with Jennie and Jessie . |
| 9 | Corporate life is changing as companies realize that they need more than young managers who demand high starting salaries , work a standard day , keep in line , and concern themselves about security . |
| 10 | On average I work a 7-hour day . |
| 11 | Discussions after this uneasy first night were typically intense , with Gergiev working a 16-hour day , as he often does , and by Friday it was all beginning to flow . |
| 12 | He expected to be exhausted later in an investigation when he would be working a sixteen-hour day , but this early heaviness , the feeling that he was already spent in mind and body was new to him . |
| 13 | I did n't mean to become so intense about it — I had realised my mistake the previous time — but I needed to keep from pining and working a sixteen-hour day seemed to be the only way I could manage it . |
| 14 | He has , he says , been ‘ overwhelmed ’ by the kindness and support he has received , and for the moment is relishing not working a 14-hour day and seeing more of his wife and four children . |
| 15 | He works a ten-hour day , Sheil . |