long hours

plural noun

: many hours at a time

She is used to working long hours.

Examples of long hours in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In the three-volume book, Solzhenitsyn offered a sweeping story of the Soviet prison system—from arrest to torture, execution, starvation and long hours of toil in the camps. —Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Dec. 2024

This year has been relentless, with long hours on set, grueling deadlines, and the constant pressure to keep up appearances in LA. —Remy Blumenfeld, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Dec. 2024

Given a bunch of factors (long hours, low pay, huge aggravations, a host of problems that seem unsolvable), there is almost no interest in going after School Board positions. —Alan J. Borsuk, Journal Sentinel, 27 Dec. 2024

Thanks in part to their large pools of employees willing to work long hours, Chinese tech champions such as Alibaba, Baidu, DeepSeek AI, Huawei, and Tencent are competitive with U.S. peers in large language model development and cloud infrastructure. —Reva Goujon, Foreign Affairs, 27 Dec. 2024