Example sentences of "[conj] [num] [noun pl] work " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before , in the Kirov , what happened was that there were eight or ten singers working for one new production each year , and another 50 sitting in the rehearsals criticizing them . |
| 2 | Or ten men working for three hours , that still gives you thirty men hours . |
| 3 | Or fifteen men working for two hours , two men working for fifteen hours . |
| 4 | This last week McGeechan will have had four or five nights working on the videos , and preparing the training sessions . |
| 5 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 6 | Some 12 or 15 men worked underground doing a six hour day but in small " companies " . |
| 7 | And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like . |
| 8 | One or two sequences worked quite well , but I hope I 'm a better director now than I was then . |
| 9 | However , in the absence of much evidence for the quality of tessellation at Withington ( some fragments of mosaic D are preserved in the British Museum ) , significant stylistic affinities still indicate that one or two craftsmen working here had also worked on the Barton Farm and Woodchester mosaics , i.e. suggesting an integral relationship . |
| 10 | As with the middle classes of Victorian England or the British colonials in India and Africa , one or two men working could maintain a large family in comfort . |
| 11 | Rather than one or two men working at an isolated face , up to fifty men would be involved in winning coal by working at a face up to seventy to ninety metres in width . |
| 12 | The Pentagon estimates that 150000 Russians work full time on civil defence during peacetime , This would rise to 16 million in war . |
| 13 | AFTER more than 31 years working for , electrical engineer has packed away his drawing board for the last time and started his retirement . |
| 14 | More than 50 women work at Long Lartin prison near Evesham in Worcestershire , 17 of them as uniformed prison officers . |
| 15 | It took me less than ten minutes to work the whole thing out . ’ |
| 16 | Knowledge about cyclical patterns of women 's sexual feelings were in part dependent on further research in endocrinology , and it was not until 1928 that two scientists working separately , Ogino and Knaus , discovered the hormonal pattern for the menstrual cycle . |
| 17 | JB : It seemed natural that two painters working in the same vicinity with the same painting outlooks should share a studio which we 've been doing now for , how long ? |
| 18 | More than 200 organisations working in areas including child and family care , will receive grants during 1993/94 through the Social Work Committee . |
| 19 | Mr started in a small way , but now two hundred and fifty Garrimperos work under him . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . " |
| 24 | If six men worked for one hour , they 's work six man hours would n't they . |
| 25 | If they worked for if six men worked for two hours they 'd work |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | For that first period , Mr claims a sum of seventeen thousand eight hundred and five pounds worked out on an hourly basis . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | According to the above agreement the six men , the lad and two boys worked for £30 . |
| 30 | Someone said they had two thousand candles lighted that evening , and two servants working full time to replenish them . |