Example sentences of "have work [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This strategy has worked well for two years , reducing delays suffered by our passengers . |
| 2 | Tozer , too , is ex-IBM , having worked there for 13 years . |
| 3 | There were no photocopying machines in those days so from the day the collection was shown the sketchers had to work frantically for two or three weeks afterwards from about eight to midnight drawing models for all the clients . |
| 4 | Stephen and he had worked closely for two years now , but there was no question of the men sharing a social relationship , as she and Stephen did with James and Elaine . |
| 5 | Lady Cross , 73 , the wife of the war hero Air Chief Marshal Sir Kenneth Cross , was repeatedly struck with antique fire irons in the shop in Pimlico , south London , where she had worked part-time for ten years . |
| 6 | The lawyer and his clerk had worked together for many years , and knew and understood each other . |
| 7 | The trio felt the time was right ; they had worked together for four years , and they had a good track record — an important factor when it came to raising money for the new venture . |
| 8 | They had worked together for several years and the elder of them readily agreed to help supply the other 's son if he went into hiding in the woods above Eastertyre . |
| 9 | Kersey and Wycliffe had worked together for several years and their temperaments complemented each other . |
| 10 | John finished by saying that if we wanted to know more about the Stanford University project , or needed an introduction , Professor Karol Sikora , head of oncology at Hammersmith Hospital , had worked there for eighteen months . |
| 11 | I 've worked hard for this house over the past three years . |
| 12 | I 've worked in for 30 years and lots of us have worked for over 25 years and we do know that they are bringing in trainees in on higher salaries than ourselves , which obviously is quite upsetting when you 've worked a long time . |
| 13 | But now EMI has been accused of exploiting its workforce — in particular , by deliberately sacking casual staff before they 've worked there for two years , thereby depriving them of statutory redundancy pay and other employment rights . |
| 14 | What guarantee do we have that , when we have to converge with , for example , the Greeks , Portuguese and Italians , the money transferred from our pockets to theirs will not merely impoverish us and give money to those who have not earned it while we have to work harder for less and pay higher interest rates ? |
| 15 | We then have to work out for each molecule which of the Cartesian axes corresponds with which inertial axis , as this depends on the details of the mass-distribution . |
| 16 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 17 | Branch manager attributes their success to their vast experience and the fact they have worked together for such a long time . |
| 18 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 19 | LSI Logic Corp is joining the rush into computer-aided broadcasting products and has teamed up with Philips Consumer Electronics Co on several chip development projects aimed at compressed digital video broadcast applications : LSI Logic and Philips have worked together for more than a year designing a number of digital demultiplexing and video and audio processing chips for upcoming Philips digital receiver applications and they plan to develop future products for the digital television industry , which involves nearly all video transmission and pre-recorded media ; LSI also announced a new family of dedicated video and audio signal processors — a Motion Pictures Experts Group audio decoder , an MPEG video decoder , and a family of Reed Solomon error correction encoder-decoders , which together form a complete compressed digital television implementation ; the products , designed to be installed in the cable or satellite television receiver , are used to decode CD-quality digital audio and studio-quality digital video signals that have been compressed and modulated . |
| 20 | they have worked together for some time and they 're likely to go on working together , ’ said Mr Capper . |
| 21 | In a business where fees are usually paid on a success only , rather than an hourly , basis , this may come a bit hard to people who have worked hard for two or three months on a deal only to see it fall at the last hurdle . |
| 22 | ‘ We have worked hard for this one and victory will be sweet . |