Sentence examples for Time off for lunch from inspiring English sources

Noonin: Taking time off for lunch.

But an hour wasn't nearly long enough: I started at noon and finished at five, with time off for lunch.

After all her conversations, note taking and analysis, Lee summarizes her findings like this: ''The way people eat at work is pretty sad.'' In the 1987 movie ''Wall Street,'' Gordon Gekko famously remarks, ''Lunch is for wimps.'' It has proved to be a prescient line in the American workplace, where taking time off for lunch has increasingly become a sign of idleness.

Or, if a mandatory lunch seems too draconian, perhaps employers could give workers incentives to take time off for lunch, just as in some countries they subsidise or reward regular visits to the gym or a physician.

Schedule time off for lunch or a short walk, to avoid working without breaks.

By St. Clair McKelway The New Yorker, August 29 , 1942P. 9 An hour and a half is a long time in war, a long time for busy war workers to take off for lunch, a long time for anybody to listen to speeches.

It was 9 45, almost time for Millie Mendez, a platform conductor on the uptown 1, 2, 3 and 9 platform in Times Square, to take off for lunch.

The Justice Department's indictment of five Chinese hackers noted that they worked 9-to-5 Shanghai time and took an hour off for lunch, while previous FBI scrutiny of a group of Russian hackers concluded that they worked Moscow hours and paused for Orthodox Christmas.

There's barely time to admire the Hindu temple on Lady Margaret Road, before we're whisked off for lunch.

Lucia had to rush off for lunch.

"They just turn them off for lunch".