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manual work
They sent women out for long hours every day to manual labor.
Oh, this is not a level of manual labor I ever wanted to experience!
And every student learned what it was to do manual labor.
The troops didn't have time to do the manual labor.
Manual labor is physical work done by people involved in construction the project.
I see them starting something new, but it would be some kind of manual labor.
I knew you did it to save yourself manual labor.
Much of this manual labor took place outside the camp.
Plans were to produce around 10,000 cars a year, most of the work being manual labor.
And for women over the age of 30 in blue-collar jobs, the pregnancy rate is less than 2 percent.
The 54,000 blue-collar jobs will be phased out by the end of 1995.
Women are moving into blue-collar jobs that used to be exclusively male.
By 1978, women held almost 20 percent of the nation's 29 million blue-collar jobs.
A higher level academic education is often not required for many blue-collar jobs.
But most have blue-collar jobs where they earn salaries close to the national average.
The state lost about 90,000 blue-collar jobs in the 1970's and thought the worst was over.
About 40 percent work in blue-collar jobs, while another quarter are professionals.
"There used to be a lot of blue-collar jobs that paid well in this city, but they are mostly gone."
Indeed, more people with higher education are filling blue-collar jobs.
It had been a particularly hard day with a great deal of physical work involved.
He did a lot of physical work around the church building.
Few men can keep at their best in either physical or intellectual work for so long as that.
For most of them, it was more physical work than they had ever done in all their lives put together.
I think experience can make up for a lot of physical work.
Tomorrow night be ready to do a lot of hard physical work.
I don't do any physical work, if that's what you mean.
I can't do very much in the way of physical work, though.
He has all but given up hard physical work on his farm.
It made me want to do a little physical work myself.
Thus her concern over his doing manual work at the summer house was understandable.
Why were people willing to do manual work back in the 60s and 70s?
I can get you that in 3 months and it will save tons of manual work right away.
Doing manual work towards a goal is much more rewarding.
On family farms in the future wives were likely to have to do more manual work.
Guests often help with the manual work of the Abbey.
I felt no obligation to remain on the manual work of the tracks.
His disease must keep him from any sort of manual work other than painting.
Many with university degrees are happy to have even manual work.
She says that it was manual work, and very hard.
Although it was thirsty work, not a drop of anything stronger than water has passed my lips in all that time.
It tasted wonderful, and painting was hard, thirsty work.
What he had in mind for her would be thirsty work.
But that is another story, and writing is mighty thirsty work.
It was hot, and today would be thirsty work.
Sitting still for that kind of music all morning is cursed thirsty work.
Scaurus' mouth went drier even than the day's thirsty work called for.
But talking is thirsty work, so let us take our coffee here.
Time now for a half liter, thirsty work this.
The traveler will probably never need them for survival, but long drives in a dry desert are thirsty work.
He settled in Hamburg, making a living from manual jobs.
My husband is in a straightforward manual job, always was.
He moved to Johannesburg in 1928 and experienced a wide range of manual jobs.
Lots of different manual jobs might also fall into this category.
After high school education, he did various manual jobs until 1968.
Actually, he should be doing a manual job, I suppose.
Boys were usually prepared for manual jobs and girls for domestic service.
He was to serve in the Australian army and work at manual jobs before discovering his bent for art.
Or were those manual jobs outside the ship waiting indeed for them?
