Example sentences of "and [num] [noun pl] working " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If there were only six stetches in the field and eight ploughs working , the first baiter then put the second baiter and another to open up the furrows and lay the tops , so all the ploughs were employed . |
| 2 | Although there are 45 OSFers and 105 outsiders working on the project , Gossel said at least one of these , Hewlett-Packard , is working without a contract but that it is a perfectly normal situation at OSF . |
| 3 | There followed three years in a furniture factory and 10 years working in the architectural practice of Sheppard Robson , where he was involved in educational buildings , including the chapel of Churchill College , Cambridge . |
| 4 | Of the estimated 1,500 journeymen and 1,200 apprentices working as printers ( pressmen and compositors combined ) in Scotland in the 1850s , rather more than half were working in the book and jobbing section of the trade , the rest in newspaper offices . " |
| 5 | A parliamentary committee in 1799 considered there to have been between 4,000 and 5,000 women working at copper mines , but this was an overestimate for an enumeration of 1838 , after a considerable expansion , counted 4,526 . |
| 6 | As Germany was to use state finance to a remarkable degree in launching German industry , so in the 1920s and 1930s Poles working through the Bank Polski were to use state finance derived from France to build their own industrial projects like the new port at Gdynia . |
| 7 | Someone said they had two thousand candles lighted that evening , and two servants working full time to replenish them . |
| 8 | GUNMEN in Sierra Leone yesterday killed two nurses and two drivers working for the Red Cross , ICRC staff said . |
| 9 | And eighteen months working for Alexander Vass would be more like a dozen miserable lifetimes ! |