Example sentences of "[be] working [prep] [pron] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 2 | And they quote epistles of St. Paul so difficult that the theologians , who have been working on them for two thousand years , have not got to the bottom of them . |
| 3 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 4 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 5 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |