Sentence examples for had worked about from inspiring English sources

The program had worked about as well as anyone could have hoped.

"He's accepted full responsibility for this and he wants to get on with his life," Mr. Fischetti said of his client, who he said had worked about 18 years on the force.

A major blow to his barn came last fall when Frank Hernandez, a trainer who had 22 hunter jumper horses under his direction at Stargate, took a position in Tennessee because the signs were evident that business in New Jersey, where he had worked about 20 years, was trailing off.

"...On...my second day of (employment) I had worked about seven hours without a break.

I think that one of the things that happened immediately was that the studio said, "Let's go make another one right away!" And we felt, "Whoa, hold on!" We all felt that rather than rush the second one into production, we needed to wait a year to give ourselves the time to metabolize what had worked about the movie.

As shown in Table  2, most respondents were female (73%), had a mean age of 38.7 (SD 11.23) years, consisted of physicians (22%), enrolled nurses (29%), and registered nurses (49%), and they had worked about nine years on average at the current ward.

These ideas have worked about as well in China as they have everywhere else.

But the experiment has worked about as well as insistently jamming a square peg into a round hole.

Government prohibition of online gambling has worked about as well as prohibition of other online content, which is to say it is observed mainly in the breach.

If so, are there or could there have been alternate means that could have worked about as well or better at less cost — less cost in money and resources, less cost to civic trust and confidence?

Of course, Cashman has worked about half his life with the Yankees, starting out as intern and rising to the general manager's job in 1998.