Example sentences of "[verb] to work long " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the staff tend to work longer hours , midweek and weekends , serving breakfast , lunch and evening meals to delegates , as well as function buffets , often working from 7.00am until late at night . |
| 2 | In corporate finance , a small group of colleagues can be expected to work long hours together under considerable pressure and conditions of secrecy . |
| 3 | teachers are highly-trained , well motivated and prepared to work long hours ; |
| 4 | But despite its glamorous image of foreign travel , meeting and dealing with firms ' top executives , and making headlines in the financial press when the deal bursts onto the markets , you have to be very committed and prepared to work long and unsocial hours ( often at weekends ) and be comfortable dealing with people who are often under stress and , in consequence , rude . |
| 5 | He was made to work long hours as a farm labourer and , like thousands of others , he was classed as ‘ Untermensch ’ ( subhuman ) by the soldiers . |
| 6 | They point out : ‘ During the first year or so , you will have to work long and unsociable hours and may have to go without a holiday or make other sacrifices . ’ |
| 7 | Mind you , there was a lot of us , but still we did have to work long hours . |
| 8 | But with the resurgence in business , those who are left are having to work long hours to ensure that the quality of service to clients is not affected , and she believes that she will have to start recruiting again before long . |
| 9 | It is bad enough when people are asked to work long hours . |
| 10 | Well I use , I use to work longer hours . |
| 11 | With the rapid decline in the mining industry during the late nineteenth century , men were forced to work longer hours or to seek work abroad and this shared life largely disappeared . |
| 12 | The safety record in the private sector is worse , because it reflects the fact that those in the private sector are already forced to work longer hours . |
| 13 | The remaining operating staff had to work long hours preparing and implementing an evacuation programme for school children , an exercise in which the trams played their part in getting them to the main line railway stations on the first part of their journey away from London . |
| 14 | This was more patriotic than wise because he had to work long hours and came home coughing ; you could smell the sulphur on his clothes . |
| 15 | ( While the Factory Acts did not usually greatly affect book-printing , it sometimes happened with legal or government work that compositors had to work longer hours than normal to meet deadlines . ) |
| 16 | Despite the implementation of a Factory Act in 1916 and growing agitation in the early 1920s , many urban workers continued to work long hours for meagre wages in unhealthy and dangerous environments , and live on inadequate nourishment in slum conditions . |
| 17 | This could occur where a mistake is made by a junior doctor who has been required to work long hours because of his contract of employment and made the mistake through exhaustion . |
| 18 | When the heat is on at work and you are required to work longer hours , are you unable to maintain your eating pattern ? |