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‘A job can be permanent.’

[⟨det job.n⟩ permanent.a]

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In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I don’t think I mentioned that my current job isn’t permanent and I may lose it this summer, but I don’t want to get in depth on it.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Well, firstly, the job at the school I’ve been working at for this term, wasn’t as permanent as I thought it was going to be.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Hopefully the job at SAC will turn permanent and I won *n’t have to face this dreaded job hunt again for awhile.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My job here isn’t permanent.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

“If the job were permanent, it would be mine (a feeling shared by both myself, the Dean and the VP Academic).
(Parse)

In Wikipedia:

In Britain, due to changes in employment laws, such jobs have either become permanent or have been converted to temporary jobs.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Hopefully I get a permanent job there, but part – time.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

My hubby is working two jobs because his permanent job pays enough for the bills, food and rent and nothing for us to save and splurge.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

29) What is the hardest thing you are going through right now that we can be praying for? – That I’ll get the pay increase I’m supposed to get as of the New Year and that Ali will find a permanent nanny job she’ll be happy doing.
(Parse)

In Wikipedia:

In the early 1980s, she got her first permanent job as a junior technical writer at I. P.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Would you take it or stay in the permanent job, struggling along financially.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Palin: wrong woman, wrong message I’ll write again when I have a permanent job.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself, he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

I’ve also gotten through almost 90 days with StarTek – which will mean benefits, paid time off available to me and the almost – guilt of realizing that this ‘temporary’ job is becoming very permanent again.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

The job had quickly become permanent, and Donna had finally moved into a flat of her own, although she visited her grandfather regularly.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

On the plus side, my new job is permanent (YAY) which means I) I can keep buying stuff, and ii) Move house in the next year or so.
(Parse)

In the British National Corpus:

“You’re saying I can start in the office today as hostess – and that the job will be permanent?
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Sometimes the accidents are happy – we were born here, we fell in love and came, or got a job that became permanent.
(Parse)

In the ICWSM 2009 Weblog Corpus:

Nothing no business, no job is permanent.
(Parse)

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Queried on 2013-05-25.