Example sentences of "work [prep] some years [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 2 | When he came out he worked for some years at a stud-farm at Henley ( Suffolk ) ; then he went back to smithing and worked for many years at Needham Market , a large village near Ipswich : |
| 3 | Helen Tritton ( Mrs Stammers ) worked for some years as a Hospital Physicist before the birth of her three children . |
| 4 | After working for some years in the hectic , fast-moving world of City finance , she now understood far more clearly the pressures and compulsive need to succeed that characterised most leading businessmen . |
| 5 | John Lewis , the district manager in charge of Lowermoor , had been voicing his concerns about the safety of the treatment works for some years before the accident . |