Sami worked at his father's restaurant, peeling potatoes for hours on end.

Layla worked long hours.

Layla was working long hours.

Sami worked long hours.

While women are under represented in the workforce, they are more likely to be working part time or very long hours.

Photo courtesy of The International Rescue Committee

This dish I have made will make you so sick that it will make you dizzy for hours.

And in summer, it's almost manic hunting and working activity very long hours, very active.

Working longer will boost economic growth, for if people work longer, then so does capital.

We exchanged a few words he was never very good at connecting emotionally with his sons, but we could talk for hours about politics.

Satisfying it has become the great palliative of modern society, our counterfeit reward for working irrational hours.

Their counterparts working in mines, meanwhile, are handling dangerous tools and are made to work without protective equipment for long hours.

They may struggle to find proper nutrition and work long hours in factories and fields until the day they go into labor.

Workers in hazardous production processes still enjoy certain privileges reduced working hours, extended annual vacations, early retirement.

The Fair Labor Standards Act provided financial incentives by requiring overtime pay for employees working long hours.

It will squirt you all around and you can stay in that shower for hours and not waste water, by the way, because it recirculates the same dirty water.

They required scores of highly skilled weavers working over extended periods of time with very expensive materials the wools, the silks, even gold and silver thread.

Social hazards such as the use of illegal drugs to keep children inside the tunnels awake for hours are also a regular feature of the country's mines.

Sami drove for hours.

I've been waiting for hours.

They went on talking for hours.

She waited for hours and hours.

The torture continued for hours.

They ate and joked for hours.

Then authorities started calling in and arresting journalists who were submitted to long hours of questioning on the sources of their information, with some interrogations lasting for more than 40 hours.

Layla and Sami talked for hours.

According to reports received by a group of United Nations human rights experts, Al Saegh is being subjected to ill treatment, long term interrogation and held in solitary confinement at the Isa Town Women Detention Centre.

Members have all worked long and hard, particularly over recent weeks.

With fewer staff available, overtime usage has increased however, longer working hours have taken a toll on the morale, health and motivation of the staff, and there has been an increase in sick and emergency leave taken.

And he sat them down for two hours, and he gave them, over the course of that two hours, ten bowls.

She prepared herself for the tennis match by practicing for hours every day.

And it goes around and around and around, the same way that military industrial complex worked a long time ago.

It can last for hours, days, weeks, or longer.

It is not surprising that they are working longer than Keynes thought they would.

People would line up for hours in order to get seats to see them.

If unemployment was not stuck quite at Great Depression levels, it remained high enough to make long term joblessness or the fear of long term joblessness a defining experience.

For example, a worker could be required to work 70 hours one week and receive no overtime compensation as long as they work 10 hours or less the following week.

Initial analysis shows that she was tortured for hours then strangled to death.

In practice, however, there are cases in which women are dismissed for refusing to work overtime.

Abd El Fattah has long worked on technology and political activism projects with his wife, Manal Hassan.

He was a brilliant diplomat, dedicated and talented, who served his country and its causes with the utmost dedication.

Satisfying it has become the great palliative of modern society, our counterfeit reward for working irrational hours. Advertisers proclaim a single message your soul is to be discovered in your shopping.

Some studies suggest that workplace stress is pervasive in the health care industry because of inadequate staffing levels, long work hours, exposure to infectious diseases and hazardous substances leading to illness or death, and in some countries threat of malpractice litigation.

If not, they may remain trapped for many hours before the nets are pulled in.

Voters waited for hours to elect their representatives, in the first free and fair election of the so called Arab Spring.