Example sentences of "all [pron] working lives " in BNC.
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| 1 | South London commuters who have travelled practically all their working lives on dreary Bulleid-influenced 4-SUB and EPB units would have celebrated the arrival from York in 1981 of the first Class 455 four-car units , which , in three batches , eventually ran to 137 . |
| 2 | Most GE managers are Americans who have spent nearly all their working lives with the company . |
| 3 | In spite of its international fame , Reid 's is still a relatively small hotel by today 's standards ( 165 rooms ) , with a family atmosphere and many members of staff who have spent all their working lives in the hotel . |
| 4 | Many , particularly from The Times and Sunday Times , had been on the papers in Gray 's Inn Road and Printing House Square all their working lives , and for most of them the strike was about more than trade-union principles . |
| 5 | This is because most male clerks do not stay as clerks for all their working lives . |
| 6 | Congress , this composite is about a deceit , a deceit by the Tory government , of men and women , over their working lives women in particular who have been contributing their stamp all their working lives and are now being told that there is a danger that they will not get their state pensions at sixty . |
| 7 | Stanley Peters , Joint Managing Director in his farewell speech , paid tribute to the value that such extended experience brings to the company and to the loyalty of those like Joan who had spent all their working lives with Stoddards . |
| 8 | They 'd been at the Nuffield Press in Oxford all their working lives until this week . |
| 9 | And let's face it ladies and gentlemen , legislation has governed us basically all our working lives has n't it ? |
| 10 | We maintain that the pension is not a charity or a benefit , but is our right as something we pay contributions for all our working lives . |