Now, I understand that you're assigned to monitor the reactor control room on the third alternate shift, is this correct?
They work alternate shifts, so someone is always there for William.
"We're taking alternate shifts now; Arkady's in the visitors' hostel."
Typically they work alternate four-hour shifts until the end of the last match of the day.
For each leg, or voyage, there are two scientific directors who hold sway in alternate 12-hour shifts.
Two Santas alternate shifts near the grand fountain.
In two cases where father and son were both working shifts they had arranged alternate shifts thus allowing uninterrupted farm work.
When the stationmaster at Claydon was abolished, two porter signalmen ran the station on alternate shifts.
For eight days, on alternate four-hour shifts, he watched with aching and bleary eyes those glinty metallic forms move against the vague background.
Johnnie Warburton renewed his acquaintance with Jack when they were designated to work alternate shifts.