Sentence examples for person hours from inspiring English sources

The WTO has become an embarrassment, with nothing to show for the millions of person hours that have gone into the Doha Round.

Cohen and Felson (1979) estimated crime rates per billion person hours spent among strangers.

The restructuring took 160 person hours and happened within the timeframe of one month.

For very long occupancy (more than 10 person hours per week), magnetite shield may also require slight extension.

Concerning productivity, the real development effort spent per use case was also slightly lower, falling from 24 person hours per use case to 21 person hours per use case.

Note that these productivity improvements directly translate into saved costs as the supplier pays for the overall development effort in person hours.

These are new, real American jobs — not person-hours; there is no double counting here.

"The government has devoted literally years and thousands of person-hours to refinement of those charges," Mr. Margulies said.

For example, the fact that it takes "1,700 person-hours each year to count and verify the ballots".

Researchers are estimated to waste 15 million person-hours a year on unpublished submissions to scientific journals.

Together, volunteers have contributed more than 2,000 person-hours, doing tasks like mulching, building greenhouses and pulling rocks out of fields.