Example sentences of "[adj] hours ' work " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last draft of the directive that was considered by the European Parliament refers to a normal minimum of eight hours ' work . |
| 2 | The course provides 120 hours ' work — about 8 hours per unit . |
| 3 | It was only a vote in the Commons at 11 p.m. that brought the evening to an end and then she returned to Downing Street for a few hours ' work on her boxes before turning in . |
| 4 | If they take their work home with them , maybe they 'll do a few hours ' work off the mains . |
| 5 | With a little practice you should be able to brew 40 pints of good cheap beer in less than three hours ' work . |
| 6 | CHARTBUSTERS Undercover are set to rake in £500,000 … for just three hours ' work . |
| 7 | In undefended divorce cases a higher initial time limit of three hours ' work applies . |
| 8 | The supply of domestic staff in Britain had dwindled after the First World War , when former servants found better paid employment for fewer hours ' work in offices and factories . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Then I did my first modelling job and got $400 for two hours ' work . |
| 11 | The Green Form scheme will provide two hours ' work by a solicitor on a case ( more with an extension ) , but the solicitor can not recover the cost of appearing before a tribunal to argue a case under this component of legal aid . |
| 12 | I hid the inch of yellow knitting , which represented two hours ' work , under my chair , tipped the lampshade to a more discreet angle , and called , " Come in . " |
| 13 | After two hours ' work , I had managed only to hack out a shallow hole hardly large enough to bury a tortoise . |
| 14 | She normally did this quietly in bed before getting up and almost invariably began with an early breakfast followed by three or four hours ' work on her current novel . |