lost days
noun[plural]
HR,WORKPLACEukus→lost time
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As implied in the lyrics to the programme's theme song, the 1970s series plays on both lads' feelings of nostalgia for thelostdaysof their innocent and reckless youth.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is difficult to estimate the indirect cost of brucellosis as measured bylostdaysof work, and the socioeconomic and psychological impact for the families and the communities.
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Last year the position for the same period was worse—1,211,000 working days lost; and this year it is still worse—1,627,000lostdays.
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It can frequently lead tolostdaysat work.
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That is why it is worrying that last year, strikes cost business morelostdaysthan in any year for more than a decade.
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Compare that figure of 23,900,000 with an average figure forlostdayspreviously in industry, of about 2 million per year.
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There was a glimmer of hope that thelostdaysat the start of the season might be reinstated at the end.
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Those twolostdaysmight have changed the whole course of the campaign, and saved many thousands of lives.
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He mourns for thelostdaysof prize-fighting, he thinks that spectres are on the increase.
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