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The consequences are a transferring of the production of Berlin firms in the West Zones, short working-hours and closing down in Berlin.
Daring Young Men RICHARD REEVES 2010
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Shortened working-hours programs in Germany are partly financed by the state.
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All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
Nineteen Eighty-four 2008
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In his quiet lodging in Lambeth he moved about after working-hours with the facility of a woman, doing his own cooking, attending to his stocking-heels, and shaping himself by degrees to
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The three travellers got themselves to rights on board during the working-hours of February 19th.
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Not that this was surprising; he found it much harder than of old to keep his mind from running on his patients outside working-hours.
Australia Felix 2003
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Hence the late working-hours they had been keeping.
The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983
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There'll be some very fancy gambling after working-hours when that money's in circulation!
The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964
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All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations.
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1949
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