Sentence examples for days wages from inspiring English sources

These cases were documented in a 2006 report by the transportation authority's inspector general, who also found more than 500 examples of engineers making three days' wages in one day and nearly 150 examples of conductors doing the same.

Nor was he alone: L.I.R.R. engineers were paid four days' wages for a single day of work on 30 occasions in 2004.

The muggers took five days' wages, Mr. Suazo said.

"Today, with two or three days' wages, you can buy the best.

A single piece of sushi costs an average Armenian three days' wages.

"That's three days' wages," she marvelled, looking down at the grapes in her hand.

Developmental policy such as that underlying the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act aims to enhance not only livelihood security of people in rural areas (through guarantee of one hundred days' wage-employment) but addresses some environmental issues.

I refuse to spend the rest of my days waging war against the inevitable.

Paid family leave, paid sick days, wage equality, flexibility, affordable child care, women's advancement: These are the issues that have mattered to working families for three decades -- and will continue to do so.

Though it is difficult to assess true affordability, treatments costing one days' wage or less were considered affordable [ 7].

As shown in Table 5, lowest price medicines in the private sector were less affordable than in the PROAM sector for most conditions, with standard treatment costing a days' wage or more.