Example sentences of "working life was " in BNC.
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| 1 | His working life was spent in the British Museum , whose print collection was his special care . |
| 2 | Indeed , a large portion of its early working life was connected with one family , the Clutterbucks who , like many other notable families of clothiers , were of Flemish descent . |
| 3 | For a time after his departure , the Abbey Mill site was run by William Rice and Co , and towards the end of its working life was running eight pairs of stones and producing its own electricity , using a water turbine and two of the remaining waterwheels . |
| 4 | ‘ Much of Nigel 's working life was spent making beacons for navigators . |
| 5 | His working life was spent as a civil servant in the important government Office of the privy Seal in Westminster , where Chaucer was Clerk of the Works . |
| 6 | The GE phase of Reagan 's working life was to act as a bridge between his declining film career and public life . |
| 7 | Much of the early commentary argued that improving the quality of working life was an appropriate social goal for modern industrial economies , where levels of education and affluence had increased living standards and aspiration levels . |
| 8 | Most of her working life was spent on the canals between London and Birmingham . |
| 9 | The old man believed , with simple patriotism , that the Service to which lie had given the whole of his working life was the best in the world . |
| 10 | Eyre 's working life was spent in almost equal parts between north-east England , mainly in Newcastle upon Tyne as assistant priest , priest , and rector from 1856 to 1868 , and in the west of Scotland in Glasgow as archbishop from 1869 until his death . |
| 11 | It has been computed that until recently in Western Europe the typical working life was 47 hours a week , 47 weeks a year for 47 years , totalling 103,823 hours in a lifetime . |