Example sentences of "work [prep] [adj] year " 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 The investigators knew that within an hour or so of their arrival at the accident site , but they had to work for another year and a half to find out why :
4 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 .
5 " The Surveyers and Overseers of Day Appoint that the roads be Wrought on this Year .
6 " The Surveyers and Overseers of Day Appoint that the roads be Wrought on this Year .
7 ‘ I thought the intelligent thing to do was to go away and work for two years and then come back and teach .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Elvira worked for 11 years as a secondary school language and music teacher in Portugal before coming to England in 1986 .
11 Now a qualified CA , he worked for six years in the Middle East , mainly in Palestine/Israel and the Lebanon .
12 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 ) .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Previously he worked for nineteen years in Kirkcaldy as a Shift Manager .
16 They worked for 38 years at the Nuffield Press in Oxford .
17 Mervyn Hayward worked for 46 years as a Coppersmith at the British Rail engineering works in Swindon .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 " And we worked for many years before we collected a single cup of rubber , do you hear ?
23 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 :
24 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 ’ .
25 The clock now stands beside the one given to her husband , who worked for many years at Glazier Metals Ltd .
26 Previously Bill who worked for many years as sales manager with G.U.S .
27 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 .
28 She too , has many accomplishments , worked for many years in the Rating and Valuation Office , now the District Valuer 's Office .
29 He worked for many years with Darlington firm Paton and Baldwin , rising to the position of chairman of sales before his retirement .
30 He worked for five years on preparing the case before committing suicide out of bitter frustration .
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