Example sentences of "worked [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His account of how government worked in the ninth century is plausible , not least because it squares with what we can infer from Dhuoda and Nithard , despite the differences in their aims and standpoints . |
| 2 | As part of our continuing review of quality systems , we are completing an evaluation of the way the new system has worked in the first year . |
| 3 | The scribes he studies worked in the 14th century — 800 years after Dr Marchand 's Goths had relinquished Italy . |
| 4 | However , lapis from the region of Lake Baikal in Siberia does contain wollastonite , although this source was not worked until the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | Observers from Russia , Portugal ( Angola 's former colonial master ) and America , who had spent much of the six weeks drafting and redrafting endless versions of the ‘ Abidjan protocol ’ — the peace agreement that never was — worked until the last minute trying to reformulate this point to make it acceptable to both sides . |