Example sentences of "work for [adj] years " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of the foregoing , psychiatry itself is increasingly being forced to admit that the firm categories of psychosis with which it has tried to work for many years are of limited value . |
| 2 | You do n't mention him , except to say that he was a biologist and that he went to England to work for two years at the chemical weapons experimental establishment at Porton Down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach . |
| 5 | These fractions are based on the idea that you will work for 40 years , and therefore end up with either half , or two-thirds , of your earnings at retirement . |
| 6 | I do know about actresses such as Patrice Charbonneau , who did n't work for several years after starring in the lesbian love story Desert Hearts . |
| 7 | Elvira worked for 11 years as a secondary school language and music teacher in Portugal before coming to England in 1986 . |
| 8 | Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon . |
| 9 | Following this period in the homoeopathic hospital I worked for two years in a professorial immunological unit where I set up studies in allergy to assess the efficacy of homoeopathic remedies in house-dust-mite allergy and hay fever ( allergy to grass pollens ) . |
| 10 | Renowned for her ‘ tomboyish tastes ’ ( she would , even in evening dress , always carry a knife and some string about her person ) , Emma went on to the School for Ornamental Art and began to support early Victorian feminist causes , making an initial living as a restorer of stained-glass windows notably in the chapel of Merton College , Oxford , where she worked for two years in the early 1860s . |
| 11 | Inspired by the coral coasts of Papua New Guinea ( where Liz lived and worked for nine years ) , this aquarium on silk is made by using a rubber-based glue called gutta in the same way that wax is used in the batik process . |
| 12 | Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager . |
| 13 | They worked for 38 years at the Nuffield Press in Oxford . |
| 14 | Mervyn Hayward worked for 46 years as a Coppersmith at the British Rail engineering works in Swindon . |
| 15 | Mr Wheeler , an engineer who worked for many years in the oil business , is a pleasant , slightly worried-looking man who can not bear the fact that no one seems to realise just what lengths he goes to in order to keep the plant squeaky clean and emission-free . |
| 16 | On the other side of the entrance to Garden Cottages was a small house in the occupation of Mr. Truckle who was a coalman and his wife who worked for many years at The Salisbury Steam Laundry . |
| 17 | FRIAR Roger Bacon , the renowned thirteenth-century philosopher and scientist , known as ‘ the wonderful doctor ’ , worked for many years at Stamford University , being a Fellow of Brazenose College on St. Paul 's Street . |
| 18 | Kathryn Sykes has run a pottery , and worked for many years as a window dresser and she has used her sense of style and colour to decorate each room individually . |
| 19 | " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ? |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | He then worked for many years as a country doctor , during which time his son Robert nearly died from smallpox inoculation performed by a ‘ surgeon of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 22 | The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd . |
| 23 | Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S . |
| 24 | Lastly the English school : Two of our number have died : Cathleen O'Connor ( Mrs Epstein ) and Margaret Partington who , after a period teaching and another working as copywriter with Kodak in Harrow while tending her ailing parents , worked for many years on the Encyclopedia Britannica , becoming Classification Editor for Literature and Music . |
| 25 | She too , has many accomplishments , worked for many years in the Rating and Valuation Office , now the District Valuer 's Office . |
| 26 | He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement . |
| 27 | He worked for five years on preparing the case before committing suicide out of bitter frustration . |
| 28 | Previously , she worked for five years as an executive secretary with Balfour Kilpatrick , the Electrical Engineering Company in Renfrew . |
| 29 | Still , this orgy of food and sex would have suited the dear departed Peter Langan ( with whom I worked for four years ) very nicely . |
| 30 | Erm , from there I 've erm , worked for four years , I 've taken erm , a break to have children . |