One evening, late in March, the former was taking his usual brief walk before sitting down to long hours of study.
Long hours he fought his temptation like a gladiator, for fine as had been Mildred's influence over him, he was still intensely human.
From Mrs. Wheaton the young lady had learned of her protegee's long hours of ill-repaid toil.
Of their one hundred and fifty girls, they wished about twenty of their more skilled operators to return to them under Union conditions, leaving the rest under the old long hours of overtime and indeterminate, unregulated wages.
The individual employer under normal circumstances is no more to blame for the low wages, long hours, &c.
Though "long hours" was the gist of the original complaint, low wages have come to be recognized as equally belonging to the essence of "sweating.
Footnote 73: This is an interesting comment on the relation between low wages and long hours on the one hand and character on the other.
Lazy people might suffer from the long hours of the factory, but the factory girls are not lazy.
The secretaries of Clubs and Care Committees were unanimous in their condemnation of the present system of long hours.
Sick Visitors also reported that prolapse was not unusual, and that most girls found the long hours of standing very fatiguing.
It is obvious that no definite conclusions as to the immediate or ultimate effect of long hours can be made from evidence of this nature.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "long hours" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
