The phrase "a generation has worked" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that a particular generation has put in effort or labor towards a specific goal or task over a period of time.
Example: "A generation has worked tirelessly to address climate change and promote sustainability for future generations."
Alternatives: "an era has labored" or "a cohort has toiled".
And, the major point, of course, is that, in addition to his demonstrated integrity, Craig has been involved in several of the major legal-political cases of a generation, has worked in the Executive Branch in two Administrations, and is a brilliant practicing lawyer, but not a judge.
Jia Zhangke, the leading Chinese filmmaker of his generation, has worked in fiction and nonfiction, sometimes combining the two and invariably using the metaphorically charged spaces of the new China as ready-made film sets.
He represents the repudiation of everything that my generation has worked to secure for our nation and its people.
As part of the youth media movement, I am proud to say that our generation has worked extremely hard to create our own media.
To the Editor: Far from being a resource-consuming bunch of slackers, members of the baby boom generation have worked hard and steadily for 40 years to pay the bills for themselves, their children and, yes, their parents in the Greatest Generation, an admirable group that nevertheless has taken much more money out of our social safety net than it ever put in.
She's probably the most prepared person to be president of her generation, having worked with her husband, Bush and Obama.
How come, when the baby boom generation have worked for 45 years or more and have had their compulsory pension contributions deducted from their wages?
"I think my predecessors over multiple generations have worked hard to create the business that we have today and one of the aspects of that is we take our technology and deploy that in multiple sectors.
In words, in music, in film, successive generations have worked it over, made it their own, every artist or would-be artist finding in it something personal and something new.
The Bradys, he says, have coal in the veins and at least two generations have worked on the mine.
He's trying to protect them from squandering the rights generations have worked so hard to achieve.
