Example sentences of "years work [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You have to spend years and years working off the initial residue of suspicion and diffidence before you 're even out of the red , let alone seeing any positive return for your efforts . |
| 2 | And then the real work begins , to work it up to a higher and higher level , and this surely can not be done until you have fifteen or twenty years working with the one orchestra . |
| 3 | Fifteen years working for the same company . |
| 4 | Until his retirement three years ago , he had spent 38 years working in the photographic studio at the Victoria and Albert Museum . |
| 5 | There followed three years in a furniture factory and 10 years working in the architectural practice of Sheppard Robson , where he was involved in educational buildings , including the chapel of Churchill College , Cambridge . |
| 6 | After 20 years working in the Social Work Department it will be hard for Jack to leave a job that has been often exhausting and demanding , but never short of interest and challenge and which he has really enjoyed doing . |
| 7 | On leaving school , she spent a few years working in the British Transport Police . |