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For example, a nurse has to return to duty at 10 o'clock in the evening and work until midnight, similar to thedogwatchin the mercantile marine.
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The hours between 16:00 and 20:00 are so arranged because that watch (thedogwatch) was divided into two.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Who really takes much notice of what any of us says in the dog watches of debate here?
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Note that this arrangement results in one of the sections having two watches in one (24 hour) day, and there are no dog watches.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Most watches were 4 hours long except for the two dog watches, which were two hours long.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.She went to general quarters again five more times before the day ended: once during the forenoon watch, thrice during the afternoon watch, and once during the firstdogwatch.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.