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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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By now, many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done.
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Hundreds of man-hours had gone into its compilation - all for nothing.
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In the late 1960's, a Volkswagen car took 19 man-hours to build, thanks largely to semi-automatic aids.
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It took 18,000 man-hours to repair a complete Whitley.
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Last year, the Police Department spent about 70 man-hours responding to alarm calls.
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Surrounding them in vaulted stone and glass, wood and gorgeous cloth, were millions of man-hours of work.
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The cost is more than made up for by the fact that virtually no man-hours are lost through strike action.
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They estimate it will take them 20,000 man-hours to get the aircraft flying and ready for the round-the-world trip.