Sentence examples for worked years from inspiring English sources

"I think it would have worked years ago," Meyer, now at Ohio State, said at the time.

St. Ann's Warehouse, the Brooklyn theater whose versatile and cavernous playing space has become a magnet for New York and overseas acting troupes, is now confronting a likely fate that its leaders had worked years to avoid: homelessness.

But a lackluster review at his next venture, and a wrong turn to a restaurant in London that never opened, left him slinging fajitas at a Mexican place in Teaneck where he had worked years before.

Mr. Kohl also said the $10,900 retiree health care figure was greatly exaggerated, asserting that many retirees had worked years to pay for that care so the cost should not be attributed to current employees.

"Some of them have come to our office who have worked years to clean up their credit and have just got mortgages approved," he said in an interview on Wednesday.

In an interview last summer, Meyer said that he thought a spread offense like the one he had used successfully in college would have worked years ago in the N.F.L. "Everyone runs the same offense in the N.F.L.," Meyer said.

But in prime working years, surprise!

He spent the rest of his working years adrift.

"When we started working years back, public mentality was different.

She spent her working years teaching the deaf.

Rupture of the Achilles tendon is a common injury during working years.