How to Use man-hour in a Sentence

man-hour

noun
  • Authorities said the searched area totals around 20 square miles and more than 6,000 man-hours.
    — Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Wrapping the train's decals took 150 man-hours, according to Amtrak.
    — Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 8 May 2026
  • Submarines, like the Virginia-class or Columbia-class, take millions of man-hours apiece to assemble.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 21 Mar. 2026
  • Having to pull resources together to review hundreds of thousands of cases is going to require thousands of man-hours.
    — Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Dec. 2025
  • This is about three times greater than the next largest contributor to maintenance man-hours, which was aircraft structures, according to the old report.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
  • That work also involved 430,000 man-hours, close to 50 subcontractors and 225 workers per day.
    — Chase Jordan may 29, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026
  • Visual imagery that once cost $250,000 per shot and thousands of man-hours to produce in CGI will be as plentiful as air, or water.
    — David Scarpa, HollywoodReporter, 1 May 2026
  • This achievement is the culmination of over 605,000 man-hours of work to remove century-old constraints that no longer matched the competitive realities of modern trade.
    — Wes Moore, Baltimore Sun, 22 June 2026
  • The new project demanded both ambition and scale, requiring 200 people in total, 50,000 hours of study, and 200,000 man-hours to build it.
    — Helen Iatrou, Robb Report, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Tests showed that some low-observable materials on the aircraft were damaged each time the aircraft flew and that repair of those materials accounted for 39 percent of the 80 maintenance man-hours per flight hour experienced by the B-2 during flight testing.
    — Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Surprisingly the most expensive hairpiece so far has been Attenborough’s, which Fortune reveals was a hybrid of a cheap £20 ($26) wig at the back combined with tens of man-hours knotting individual strands of hair onto a lace front to create the centenarian’s familiar pate.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 15 May 2026

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