Example sentences of "[adj] hour a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next extract refers to a period in Salisbury when Philip Parrish works eight hours a day in preparation for his Civil Service examination without too many lapses into dreaming . |
| 2 | For the next 35 years , almost without a break , Asimov produced 90 words a minute , eight hours a day , seven days a week , first on a typewriter and later on a word processor , and he invariably wrote three books at once . |
| 3 | Removing the supports of these state agencies — the welfare net , subsidized public services — would face people with a ‘ reality test ’ : that if you do n't sweep floors eight hours a day , you wo n't have any money to live on . |
| 4 | They represent acceptable exposure levels based on eight hours a day for five days a week . |
| 5 | The power available from the hydroelectric station will be at least 800 MW , eight hours a day for the first 20 years , thereafter falling by about 30 per cent . |
| 6 | I now leave the lights on for eight hours a day . |
| 7 | He was a file-grinder by trade , sitting astride a roaring belt-driven stone wheel , breathing in dust for eight hours a day until chronic bronchitis and pneumoconiosis drove him to an early retirement . |
| 8 | And , according to the Nihon Keizai Simbun , the semi-public TV network NHK has been running HDTV broadcasts eight hours a day on a test basis since last year . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's the electric fireplace which the American public watches an average of six to eight hours a day ’ . |
| 10 | The Manila stockmarket is at an all-time high ; yet electricity power-cuts in the country last an average of eight hours a day . |
| 11 | Unlike many of their colleagues in the public sector general practitioners in the Conceicao programme work for the full contracted eight hours a day . |
| 12 | Er I offered it for about eight hours a day , but they might send us somebody might . |
| 13 | Those who were miners worked a three-shift system — eight hours a day , six days a week . |
| 14 | From the sowing date onwards the plants remain in a controlled environment , with temperature 20°C , humidity constant and warm-white lighting at an intensity of about 40 Wm -2 for eight hours a day , darkness sixteen hours a day . |
| 15 | Rather than spend eight hours a day gathering firewood , they will conserve fuel by cooking less frequently or more communally . |
| 16 | These developments could open up new vistas of flexible working for large numbers of employees , who no longer need to be herded together in downtown locations for eight hours a day . |
| 17 | It should be stressed that in the first period , when the plaintiff was at Addenbrookes hospital , that is from June nineteen eighty seven to May nineteen eighty eight , at least one parent was in attendance for eight hours a day . |
| 18 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 19 | Mrs Taylor , who only has partial sight in one eye , has spent eight years studying eight hours a day to achieve her degree by using a specially adapted tape recorder . |
| 20 | I mean I was in eight and a half hours yesterday , eight hours a day before |
| 21 | I mean eight hours a day , it 's got ta be over the hundred |
| 22 | We will require employers to give everyone who works for them for more than eight hours a week a clear written statement of their terms and conditions of employment . |
| 23 | Apart from his own studies , Tetsu teaches English and mathematics to children ; he had taught eight hours a week over the past year to finance this , his first trip outside his homeland . |
| 24 | We spent eight hours a week listening to the radio — but mainly while doing something else . |
| 25 | If they work between eight and sixteen hours a week they need five years ' continuous employment before they qualify for payment , while those who work less than eight hours a week have no entitlement to redundancy payments . |
| 26 | If you work for between eight and 16 hours you will have to have worked for the same employer for at least five years to be eligible , and if you work for less than eight hours a week , you 'll lose these rights altogether . |
| 27 | In addition Mrs scheme at page forty three provides for a further twenty eight hours a week to be provided in some other way , that it is suggested is parental care , but it seems to me that it would either be parental care or hired care . |
| 28 | The ruling means an employee working fewer than eight hours a week still can not qualify for redundancy pay or unfair dismissal , regardless of the number of weeks worked . |
| 29 | Thirty eight hour thirty eight hours a week Bill 's . |
| 30 | At each Hour a verse from the hymn is followed by a prayer which acknowledges this and sees the Incarnation as the means by which all men , both living and dead , can be united : The office thus daily rehearsed the historical story of the Passion of Christ and its significance in such a way that it is constantly renewed in human awareness through both the linear and cyclical experience of the passing of time . |