Example sentences of "[adj] weeks ' work " in BNC.
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| 1 | So his results were preliminary but it would only take a few weeks ' work , using the neutron spectrometer , to know for sure . |
| 2 | We have innumerable paths that need constant work but due to financial pressures the lucky ones might only receive around six weeks ' work a year . |
| 3 | But Main Line contended it had reached a binding verbal agreement with Basinger , who was to have been paid £2m ( 3m dollars ) for six weeks ' work , and that she backed out of it four weeks before shooting was to begin in 1991 . |
| 4 | The 1992 accounts ( due 31 December 1993 ) are almost complete but another six to eight weeks ' work is needed before the audit can be signed off . |
| 5 | I was told that in the early days of tape , three weeks ' work in Europe was wiped when , as the White Cliffs of Dover came into sight , the bag containing them was put down in front of the rotating aerial . |
| 6 | The dummy took three weeks ' work by a team of volunteers , mostly part-time and helping when they could . |
| 7 | Crawford , as a post office clerk further down the cast , was paid just 350 for five weeks ' work . |
| 8 | He negotiated a million dollars tax-free for eighteen weeks ' work . |
| 9 | After two weeks ' work the catapult was finally ready . |
| 10 | She flew up to Nashville for two weeks ' work and called Dennis from her hotel room exactly eight days after their wedding . |
| 11 | Matty attempts to clear her desk by doing two weeks ' work in three days . |
| 12 | The title alone had cost him two weeks ' work . |
| 13 | Both the French and Scottish groups undertook two weeks ' work experience and a week of language and social activity abroad . |
| 14 | After seven weeks ' work on the part of many army personnel , we were ready to begin . |