Sentence examples for have worked longer from inspiring English sources

For decades, Americans have worked longer hours, with fewer vacations, than people in most other industrialized countries.

PAGE 1 WHEN TIME IS NOT MONEY For decades, Americans have worked longer hours, with fewer vacations, than people in most other industrialized countries.

To maintain or improve their living standards, people have worked longer, taken on second jobs and - most important of all - got themselves deeper into debt.

Add to that a decision in 1997 to raise payroll taxes sharply to sustain the viability of the Canada Pension Plan, and a tightening of the unemployment insurance scheme, requiring beneficiaries to have worked longer before qualifying for handouts.

If the labourer worked on average 16 hours overtime a week as the documents suggest, after a maximum 48 hour week, then he would have worked longer than the allowable maximum of 60 hours.

"And that's kind of an instinctive thing, a judgment on 'Is this consistent with what we campaigned on, and who he is?' " While Mr. Plouffe and Mr. Axelrod have worked longer for Mr. Obama, Mr. Pfeiffer is one of "the originals," as aides refer to those who have been with the president since at least January 2007, when he began his race to the White House.

The Red Bull team had worked longer in the garage on Friday to change the setup of the car.

At the end of the program, the music and dance studio tried to honor its teachers, who had worked longer and harder than any of the children to give them this chance to shine.

It seems unlikely, for example, that its efforts did much to save the British transport police's sex crimes unit, when the journalist Rosamund Urwin has worked longer and harder on the issue.

But "when we saw the first picture of the surface, it was really rewarding, especially for my boss --François Raulin--"who had worked longer on this project".

Harold Sharlin, 89, of Washington, D.C., has worked longer than most.