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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

  • Shortened working-hours programs in Germany are partly financed by the state.

    Daimler's Optimism Increases 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

    The Fiddler of the Reels 2006

  • The three travellers got themselves to rights on board during the working-hours of February 19th.

    Five Weeks in a Balloon 2003

  • 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

  • Hence the late working-hours they had been keeping.

    The Wicked Day Stewart, Mary, 1916- 1983

  • There'll be some very fancy gambling after working-hours when that money's in circulation!

    The Other Side Of Nowhere Leinster, Murray 1964

  • 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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