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- noun Plural form of
man-hour .
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Examples
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One consequence of whipping was the loss of untold numbers of man-hours.
A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010
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Individuals and volunteer groups have dedicated thousands of man-hours to pubic schools, like Overbrook High School, to help students with homework and counseling, and provide schools resources to address the city's high dropout rates.
Volunteers Help Fill Voids In Philly Public Schools Lauren Sullivan 2010
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Kilcullen believes drone strikes are counterproductive because countless man-hours of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance are put into eliminating a few purported high-value insurgents, an obsessive short-sighted focus that comes at the expense of protecting the population.
Michael Hughes: Obama's Drone Surge in Pakistan Doing More Damage Than Good Michael Hughes 2011
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Kilcullen believes drone strikes are counterproductive because countless man-hours of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance are put into eliminating a few purported high-value insurgents, an obsessive short-sighted focus that comes at the expense of protecting the population.
Michael Hughes: Obama's Drone Surge in Pakistan Doing More Damage Than Good Michael Hughes 2011
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The ADC said the number of inmates working for growers fluctuates with the seasons, but the state does keep tabs on inmate man-hours deployed in commercial agriculture.
Captive Labor on the Farm Joel Millman 2011
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The fanciest guns consume 1,300 man-hours of labor.
Arm Candy Monte Burke 2010
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A policy-making authority would only have to look at the man-hours expended by detectives who are attempting to trace weapons to see thelogic.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Juveniles on Probation, and Their Parents’ Guns (and Other Weapons) 2010
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Individuals and volunteer groups have dedicated thousands of man-hours to pubic schools, like Overbrook High School, to help students with homework and counseling, and provide schools resources to address the city's high dropout rates.
Volunteers Help Fill Voids In Philly Public Schools Lauren Sullivan 2010
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In fact, I have somewhere seen figures that suggest there are at least as many man-hours of non-teaching teachers (advisors, administrators, seconded teachers, teacher-teachers, careers advisors, psychotherapist types etc.) as man-hours of classroom teachers - without even adding-in the managers. wrt.
Britain's Bureaucratic State, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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If 60% of manpower is non-operational, this would be a 30% increase in overall operational capacity in man-hours on the street and targeted.
Anyone Seen The Sun Today? « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010
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