It's comforting to think of the economy as a tangible, measurable thing: offices, factories, shops, all those hours commuting, surely it has to add up to something.

That was sixteen hours of productive work, not commuting time, lunch, tnps to the rest rooms and the water fountain.

Mr. Soota said he chose not to build a suburban campus, like that of Infosys, because he did not want his employees to spend three hours a day commuting on Bangalore's horrendous roads.

Agents there must routinely spend hours commuting to the downtown offices of the United States Attorney, where the subpoenas are issued.

She spent three hours a day commuting back and forth between her job in West Harlem and Co-op City in the Bronx.

The research required Mr. Khan to spend eight hours commuting to a lab in Nassau County.

Mrs. Jack now spends hours commuting, she said.

Cab services, call taxis and auto rickshaws provide 24 hours commuting services to the airport.

I spent 1,100 hours commuting.

"I didn't want to get hung up in two hours of traffic and smog commuting to work every day," he said.