Example sentences of "[art] long hours " in BNC.

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1 Not only were they the longest hours they had ever been called upon to endure , but the coldest .
2 Then a European Commission report showed that British workers do the LONGEST hours in Europe — for FIFTH RATE pay .
3 And his own man in the Washington Field Office , the CI-3 team , and putting in the longest hours and never a word of complaint , and that had won him the job in the Attaché 's office in Rome .
4 Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children .
5 BIG strides in reducing junior doctors ' working hours have been announced by health minister Dr Brian Mawhinney , who said : ‘ Posts with the longest hours those contracted for an average of more than 83 hours a week fell by more than 2,000 to 3,234 , in the last six months . ’
6 He would like to open an informal , family-run restaurant in the country one day , so he can eventually imagine returning to the long hours of hotel and restaurant work .
7 The cause of Mr Hemingway 's ‘ uncharacteristic errors ’ — failing to see that the old wire was detached at the fuse end and insulated at the relay end — is attributed to the long hours he worked .
8 It will reveal the limitations to the interpretation a player can give , say , Bartok 's ‘ Mikrokosmos ’ without the long hours of practice and thought which are currently necessary for the mastery of both the piano and the music itself .
9 Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour .
10 If they were not lying securely in their graves , awaiting the Day of Judgement , what might they not be up to in the long hours of darkness , as the boards creaked and the wind howled on Wuthering Heights ?
11 We can only imagine that the long hours between distractions dragged interminably .
12 The long hours — most of his staff are working 18 hours a day — and the pressure are taking their toll on his campaign team , many of whom are clearly very tired .
13 Not everyone can last the course down here ; they find the long hours and the winter climate not to their liking , and there is a high drop-out rate . ’
14 They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob .
15 Mr Ashdown has been quick to contrast his 55 walkabouts with Mr Kinnock 's ‘ three ’ , and he has put in the long hours with a soldier 's determination to ‘ get the job done ’ .
16 We have acted to reduce the long hours worked by junior doctors in hospitals .
17 Music , for both of us , is a part of life we treasure , and Michael has found his records and tapes a constant source of happiness during the long hours of inactivity forced upon him .
18 The long hours of the night stretched ahead of her and the prospect opened a well of loneliness within her .
19 In the long hours when there were no customers to show she was expected to lend a hand with some of the unskilled tasks — running errands and making tea , unpicking a seam or a hem , even sewing on a button or a hook and eye when she had been taught the proper way to do it .
20 Nor , in the long hours of her sleeping , when he and Diniz shared the same room , did he say more than he thought might reassure the young Portuguese .
21 When they complained of the long hours , Peckinpah had them fired .
22 STIMULATED TO STUDY There 's no escaping the long hours spent alone with your notes — but there are variations that could even prove enjoyable
23 ‘ Those sorts of people do n't tend to notice the long hours ! ’
24 And in Gascoigne 's absence he played the fool to lighten the mood during the long hours of inactivity that footballers must put up with .
25 It is a moment before the long hours in cramped quarters , which makes up spending a night in a couchette .
26 Medical advances almost invariably increase the demands on doctors ' time , and it is this increased intensity of working that has made the long hours of many doctors intolerable .
27 The long hours worked by preregistration house officers , the high service commitment , and the low rating given to the educational aspects of the job have led to numerous criticisms of this part of medical education .
28 A common criticism levelled at the preregistration year concerns the long hours of work .
29 No matter how deep their urban roots , workers found difficulty in coming to terms with the long hours , unhealthy environment , and frequent accidents at work .
30 Furthermore , the long hours of housework are , as many feminists have stressed , unpaid and do not receive any recognition as productive labour in national income statistics .
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