Sentence examples for standby work from inspiring English sources

Ms. Russell's standby work shoe is Prada's practical round-toed, cigarette-shaped 85-millimeter pump (€420), which the maker wisely keeps stocked all year round.

He assumes each car will be available for standby work 21 hours a day.

The association claimed pilots could be rostered for eight hours on standby then work on a 14-hour flight, meaning they would be landing after 22 hours on duty.

When we're not doing anything – no appliances running and just a few things on standby – it works out at about 3p an hour.

To enhance the performance and reliability of any machining system, there is need of backup support (standby) to working machines.

If there's a power failure while a computer is on standby, any unsaved work is completely lost.The point of using the standby mode instead of going through the whole rigmarole of shutting the computer down and then having to reboot it the next time it is needed is to make the machine more of an "instant-on" appliance.

Richard Burton even played Tito (who hand-picked him) in a Yugo-biopic and for a while in the 60s and 70s, Avala was one of the biggest film-making facilities in the world, the army ever on standby for extras work.

FOR WHATS LEFT of this bull market the old conservative standbys just dont work.

You get up to three hours of talk time with 12 days of standby and it works internationally.

So he abandoned the promise and fell back on his tired, familiar standby ("People don't work at Google for the money. They work at Google because they want to change the world!").

The woman, a librarian named Sherly Fang, explained that she did not want to close the lid completely because that would put the computer into standby mode, interrupting her work.