(1) The mortality of 3000 male factory workers, 1400 laggers, and 700 women factory workers in east London has been studied.
(2) Laggers were employed on contract in increasing numbers in later years.
(3) A sub-group of 39 men, who were working as asbestos laggers or sprayers before 1957, was identified.
(4) The prevalence of pleural fibrosis ranged from 28% in continuously exposed workers to 1.9% in those with least exposure.Most cases of pulmonary fibrosis occurred in laggers and sprayers who had been continuously exposed for between 15 and 20 years.
(5) Grassroots organisers for the GMB and Unite unions were inundated with calls from members who wanted to join the industrial action erupting at the Lindsey oil refinery near Grimsby, where hundreds of welders, engineers, pipe-fitters and laggers had launched the biggest protest yet at the employment of foreign workers on energy construction projects.
(6) The campaign group described P&G as both a “market leader and a lagger”, for failing to drive change in the industry.
(7) A follow-up study of 162 men already working as insulators (laggers) in 1940 has been extended from 1965 to 1975.
(8) Mesothelioma was found to cluster in laggers, electricians, and shipyard workers, and nasal carcinoma in woodworkers.
Ligger
Definition:
(n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.
(a.) See Ledger, 2.
Example Sentences:
(1) So the party was seriously amaze, we had like these interns you could actually SIT on, tray Gatsby & the entire theme was "bags", non-swank my idea, everyone was going OMG it is like something out of Truman Patootie, then there is this shouting, the doormen are like, couple of liggers shall we eject, I'm like *sigh* let them in but make him do up his shirt & do not let her out of your sight?
(2) At times Tyson paints himself as a victim - of circumstance, of liggers, of women on the make - but in the end he says he has nobody to blame but himself.