Sentence examples for weeks work for from inspiring English sources

One customer cancelled this morning – a project that would have been approximately two to three weeks' work for us.

Family members have claimed the women were pressured to accept 1,400 rupees (£14), the equivalent of two weeks' work for a manual labourer, to undergo the procedure.

Eldon and co get through four episodes in London a day; each 11-minute story is then three weeks' work for a team of 12 animators in Dublin.

'We were desperately trying to keep Johnny on board and he was committed to the film,' Gilliam elaborates, 'but he was being offered $2m for three weeks' work while we were expecting him to do 17 weeks' work for the same fee.' In the end, according to Gilliam: 'Rainer just didn't have the money.

How else to explain the airport arrest and deportation of a 22-year-old female college student from Spain, visiting the United States for a vacation at the invitation of a librarian at Oregon State University, on grounds that she would give Spanish lessons to the librarian's young son for a few weeks — work for which she lacked the right visa?

Spend a couple of weeks working for production companies for free.

We were just put on the shop floor and told to tidy shelves," she said.James Rayburn has just spent seven weeks working for Tesco doing, he says, the same work as other paid employees.

The book was based on the experience of counselors who spent six weeks working for 12 different employers, including Nassau County, banks, a pub lishing company, manufactur ing concerns, utilities and a merchandising company.

Jeff remembered grimly what a pleasant change he'd thought this job would be, but now he looked back on those six harrowing weeks working for Harvey Weinstein like a long-ago Hanukkah.

They were usually ready to go home after a few weeks working for my Dad.

When the financial crisis hit, he spent a year working as a contractor, and then a few weeks working for a friend before a starting an endless stretch of unemployment.