Sentences with phrase «hard manual labour»

50 + years ago the average lifestyle was very different to what Americans and western Europeans experience now — previously we used walk places, used work doing hard manual labour and be on out feet much of the day, this would have given us quite a different aerobic base to build from.

Not that I lost it through exercise as such, but hard manual labour.

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Seat covers are cut and sewn in Mexico because it's highly detailed, manual labour and it's hard to find people in Canada or the United States who want to do that work, he said.

«It was pretty much men who were in work and it was dominated by a huge amount of manual hard graft labour.

Originally worn by American workmen, Levi's jeans were designed to be hard wearing and comfortable trousers that were used in manual labour.

Another challenge was some of the tasks I undertook; the labouring roles involved, naturally, hard manual work and to this day I remember having to figure out how to lower a piano to the ground from the third storey of a house, with only one other person and one rope to help me.

Hard to find another job that lets you swear like a trooper, drink a bottle of wine over lunch, tell people who are dickheads that they're dickheads and avoid manual labour.