Sentence examples for labor for four years from inspiring English sources

Mr. Gauck knew even more directly the repressive hand of the Communist regime, which sent his father to hard labor for four years.

Adding to a scarcity of female advisers among Mr. Obama's top aides, Hilda L. Solis, the secretary of labor for four years, announced on Wednesday that she would be resigning, following the most prominent female Cabinet member, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, out of the administration.

Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was a minor English painter of the first half of the 19th century who was convicted of forgery and transported to Australia, where he did hard labor for seven years.

Nash has labored for eight years in Columbus since being taken No. 1 in the 2002 draft.

Now eighty-two years old, the celebrated Austrian scientist, accompanied by his wife and daughter, has left the simple flat in Vienna where he labored for forty-seven years.

The team that labored for two years on the most important arms-control deal in decades, led by the American and Iranian foreign ministers, was passed over, too.

He has not played for a winning team since the Red Sox let him go as a free agent after 2005, laboring for three years in Baltimore before his cameo with the Blue Jays.

After laboring for five years over the esoteric science-fiction epic "Ice Trilogy," he spat out "Day of the Oprichnik" in a month, he said, like an uninterrupted stream of bile.

Mr. Sayed says he labored for seven years creating his dining room, which is a long time when you think that Michelangelo completed the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in only four.

Critics noted that the government had labored for three years to produce the system on time, but had been unable to produce a privacy law that was to accompany it.

The 6,000 international scholars, not to mention the teams of editors, who labored for seven years to produce a revised New Grove in 29 volumes will find James R. Oestreich's Jan . 21article, "Words on Music, 25 Million of Them," disheartening.