Sentence examples for operated for a while from inspiring English sources

The building sat vacant for 30 years, operated for a while as a county courthouse, and only in 1999 reopened as a luxury hotel.

"The problem was that for these vendors in Central Park, the work is very seasonal, and the way M&T operated for a while was to have the people work longer hours during the heart of the season and lesser hours during the low period and not at all during the coldest months," Mr. Tully said.

His family's two sugar mills, in what are now called the Cienfuegos and Villa Clara provinces, were operated for a while by the government, which kept all of the profits, but Gutiérrez said that he later learned from former workers that they had been dismantled and abandoned early in this new century.

Now, one can make the naïve argument that maximizing click => maximizing impressions => maximizing advertising dollars, and this is how the industry has more or less operated for a while.

Even if China did cut off crude oil supplies, North Korea — particularly its military — would be able to operate for a while, Mr. Hayes said.

Run your race at your own pace and don't compare your beginning stages to an established brand that has been operating for a while.

"But rather than pushing the 'pedal to the metal' from the beginning, we see great value in operating for a while where we are now," he said.

Corporations don't quite have the luxury of having their services just drop off the grid and not operating for a while.

Corporations don't quite have the luxury of having their services just drop off the grid and not operating for a while.

(There is some evidence that in the Caucasus as in the former Central Asian republics, Moscow allowed foreign Islamists to operate for a while as mentioned in Ahmad Rashid's book "Jihad In Central Asia").

VoxSci is a service which has been operating for a while in the UK, but has now launched an iPhone and Android app to do what Google Voice does, but for the rest of us outside the US.