The phrase "as a typist in a" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing someone's role or position within a specific context, particularly in a job or professional setting.
Example: "She worked as a typist in a busy law firm, handling all the documentation and correspondence."
Alternatives: "in the role of a typist at" or "serving as a typist in a".
He held paying jobs as a typist in a law firm, a salesman at Gimbels and then Macy's, and as a secretary in a school.
Since her brother was unwilling to take her back in, she took up residence with her godmother and managed to secure a job as a typist in a company under British American Tobacco (S. Zhang 404).
She started work as a typist in a London hotel, then for the newly established Granada TV, in 1956, in its press office - another secretarial job, but one that was to endow her with a lasting love of television.
"I never wanted to get stuck as a typist in an office," she said.
To get a job as a typist in an insurance agency, Mrs. Maas lied about her age, saying she was 40 when she was actually 50.
After working as a typist in an insurance office for a year following her graduation from West Side High School, Sister Mary Vincent moved to Philadelphia and became a nun with the Missionary Servants of the Most Blessed Trinity.
By E. Pastore and John McCarten The New Yorker, May 14 , 1955P. 34 A young American lady got a Job as a typist in Paris.
'I think,' Miss Beston would say eventually, 'most people tend to call me Miss Beston.' When Marlborough Fine Art began to represent Francis Bacon in 1958, Miss Beston had been in place there for a dozen years, having joined as a typist in her mid-twenties.
First as a typist in the state expenditure department and then as a secretary.
They met at the male-dominated agency, where Vertefeuille began her career as a typist in 1954 and rose to become a counterintelligence expert and, in the words of Acting Director Michael J. Morell, "a true CIA icon". Grimes joined the agency right out of college 13 years later, and the two women became close as they investigated the disappearance of at least eight Soviet assets in the 1980s.
I was working as a typist in Churchill's underground bunker when the war ended.
