A forty-hour week is standard for civilians-but not for naval officers.

As I keep telling those trade union buggers, if I worked a forty-hour week I'd be finished by lunchtime Tuesday.

After a forty-hour week at the front they got bored and left it....

Crime doesn't adhere to a forty-hour week, but there are days when even the criminals don't seem to feel like doing much.

Also, the surgeon stated, the idea of a forty-hour week fascinated him.

After steady growth over the first half of the century, including winning paid sick leave, annual leave and a forty-hour week, the union really took off in the 1950s.

But frankly, Spike, I don't really care if artists work a forty-hour week or obey the Ten Commandments.

Only a few years before, the forty-hour week had been started in the Soviet Union.

For a forty-hour week, our pay at The Maids would amount to $266, or $43 above the poverty level.

It was a Friday evening; the timbermen worked a forty-hour week on five days, and Saturday and Sunday were holidays.