Example sentences of "[adv] long hour " in BNC.
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| 1 | Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards . |
| 2 | Women worked extremely long hours when the exigencies of the family economy demanded it . |
| 3 | Just long hours and low pay . |
| 4 | Just long hours and low pay . |
| 5 | They work incredibly long hours with no day of rest for a monthly income which in the United States would not even amount to a basic daily wage . |
| 6 | Paula entered the factory at the age of 17 after finishing secondary school and found that her wage was so low , she was forced to work exceptionally long hours , from 7.30 a.m. to 9.30 pm . |
| 7 | The Profitboss is lit enough to thrive on stress , to take the never-ending pressures , to work exceptionally long hours when necessary . |
| 8 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 9 | Add to that the dreadfully long hours that doctors and nurses have to work — sometimes 16-18 hour shifts — and it 's little wonder that mistakes are made . |
| 10 | More recently , junior hospital doctors took to the streets over their appallingly long hours , up to ninety in a single week . |
| 11 | He worked almost unbelievably long hours and subsisted on occasional cups of tea ( rather as Krishna Menon had done during his long , lonely London years ) . |
| 12 | inadequate staffing and consequently long hours of working ; |
| 13 | She 's very withdrawn and working far too long hours , of course . ’ |
| 14 | He admired so many qualities in Fisher : the shrewdness about people , the grasp of practical problems , the ability to work very long hours , the patience under abuse from the press , the humility which went with a cocksureness that was not arrogance . |
| 15 | He started by doing stints in the three main factories in London , Manchester and Edinburgh , often working very long hours . |
| 16 | For example , at lambing time many wives put in very long hours . |
| 17 | Although they enjoyed their lifestyle there was evidence that very long hours were worked , greater than the individual enterprises actually required . |
| 18 | she said ‘ We 've been going for two months with very long hours . ’ |
| 19 | In 1911 Churchill , by then Home Secretary , introduced a Shops Act , the subject of a long campaign led by Sir Charles Dilke and female trade unionists , which established a half-day closing each week , thus reducing the very long hours worked by shop assistants but without increasing job opportunities . |
| 20 | I think erm casualty was the worst in that you had very very long hours to do erm sometimes you were on call from five o'clock in the evening until nine o'clock the following morning , and you did that for a whole week so by the end of the time you really did feel inhuman , you were very very tired . |
| 21 | She was on day work now but working very long hours , often increased by overtime , and was very tired . |
| 22 | Residential care is very labour intensive , and fundamental to the viability of private homes is the heavy involvement of the owners and their families , often working very long hours . |
| 23 | You can imagine this has meant him working very long hours , one of the other problems he has is he suffers from diabetes . |
| 24 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 25 | Er and the proposal that I shall report is the and in particular those matter our certainty of responsibility between various agencies needs to be addressed erm it arose obviously are much more widespread than in the past week , but er I was granted in fact to give consideration to this result of the parish meeting , conventional routine parish meeting at Barnham er on the fourth of January erm which led to the largest parish meetings I think they 've had in many years erm when because people were incensed with the suffering and the hardship that they had as a result of the flooding on the night of Thursday the thirtieth of December erm should let me say first of all that erm I would congratulate all those who were involved er in dealing with the present emergency operations erm it 's quite superb , it 's erm it seemed to be erm a remarkable reflection on the capacity er that to deal with certain circumstances reflects very well on this authority and in saying that I mean it 's not just the opposites to the men and women who are involved , but also whereas I 'm sure many members are here that members amongst our numbers have putting on very long hours in dealing with the present circumstances and I congratulate on the activities . |
| 26 | One detective who works in the area said : ‘ We are working very long hours tracking these people but when we bring them in , legal impediment after legal impediment is thrown up in our faces . |
| 27 | I work a very long hours . |