Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] ' work " in BNC.
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| 31 | After three years ' work the last consignment of nuclear fuel rods has been removed . |
| 32 | Geest launched its new product , which is peeled , cored , trimmed and packed in a special container , on the Scottish market yesterday after three years ' work on the process . |
| 33 | The workers feel the package is derisory , particularly as they have accepted minimum wage rises over the past few years and Yarrow has at least three years ' work on its books . |
| 34 | I once calculated that I did about a thousand hours ' work in the three years I was there , an average of an hour a day . |
| 35 | 18 months ' work down the drain , ’ he said . |
| 36 | The forward order book has moved up since last month , but lags its long-term average ( 3.0 months ' work ) . |
| 37 | He 's been able to start up again , but the painful end of 11 years ' work does n't fade . |
| 38 | Wills , who holds a victory over former world champion Greg Page and was no doubt encouraged by the fact that Derek Williams , whom he had floored and convincingly outpointed in New York this summer , became the new European champion after 55 seconds ' work against Hughroy Currie on Tuesday night , went about his work with pride , determination , and remarkable endurance . |
| 39 | There 's all sorts of accidents not only having the computer switched off , you might accidentally mess the file up or erase it or whatever , er , you 've still got the original copy on the disk so if you keep saving it every ten minutes or so , then you always lose more than ten minutes ' work . |
| 40 | Largest exhibition of professional illustration ever held in Brighton representing over 50 illustrators ' work |
| 41 | After drumming as a semi-professional in the 1960s , Stan took a degree as a mature student at Birmingham University , leading to ten years ' work as a careers officer , In 1979 Stan became the Musicians ' Union 's South-East district organizer , and subsequently the Central London branch secretary and co-editor of the union 's award-winning Musician magazine . |
| 42 | Nicholson , while rejecting Corman as his ‘ mentor ’ gladly acknowledges the start and subsequent ten years ' work he gave him . |
| 43 | The construction of four 900-MWe units at a single site involves ten years ' work and up to 6000 people . |
| 44 | It would be five minutes ' work to beat this ignoramus . |
| 45 | After fifteen minutes ' work he had found nothing of interest . |
| 46 | Fifteen artists ' work will be included . |
| 47 | The product of five months ' work by a specially elected Constituent Assembly [ see pp. 37450 ; 37914 ; 38283 ] , it was hailed on all sides as marking the opening of a new democratic chapter in the country 's history , previously marred by decades of political and drug-related violence and the domination of power by a small political elite . |
| 48 | Crawford , as a post office clerk further down the cast , was paid just 350 for five weeks ' work . |
| 49 | The dam , completed in 1890 after nine years ' work , is 390yds long and 127′ thick at the base . |
| 50 | The call came from the director general of the Office of Fair Trading , Sir Gordon Borrie , in a hard-hitting review of this 16 years ' work , at a recent Institute of Directors ' branch meeting . |
| 51 | The cost of employing the consultant — up to £1000 for five days ' work — is split between the bank and the company . |
| 52 | SAM LLEWELLYN SAW THE RESULTS OF FIVE YEARS ' WORK |
| 53 | After five years ' work , Olivier was certain of only two things : that the population , even at the highest estimate , was by no means enough to ensure the eventual survival of the species ; and that the figures henceforward would be on the way down rather than up . |
| 54 | Taurus , a computer project that was to have delivered paperless share settlement , was scrapped in March after five years ' work and a £400m ( $150m ) outlay by the City . |
| 55 | Similarly , the entry cost for new mini-computers used to be $25 million and five years ' work , but has now fallen to below $5 million and one year . |
| 56 | The study draws together the results of five years ' work by the investigator and the findings of the ESRC 's extensive research programme in this field to provide the first comprehensive account of central-local relationships in the UK for nearly twenty years . |
| 57 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 58 | ‘ That 's about all I can do here , ’ he grumbled , after twenty minutes ' work . |
| 59 | That contract was for ten albums , which , at Oldfield 's work rate , could amount to fifteen to twenty years ' work . |
| 60 | In twenty years ' work on the Mesozoic Brachiopoda , I have found plenty of relationships , but few if any evolving lineages . |