Real people live there and work hard, amid the kind of tidy rural shabbiness I love.

Budget negotiators worked amid growing skepticism that agreement could be reached any time soon.

He said working overtime amid antiquated equipment was sure to damage morale.

At the top of it, the Lords worked amid machines which had no meaning any more.

For the most part, though, those in the group seem content to work amid the intimate hipsterishness of downtown theater.

I would a thousand times rather work amid the hostility of men, than of women.

The men working amid the ruins prefer it that way.

In other words, she gets paid to work amid this clamor.

My dad lost his hearing after working amid the noise on the ships all his life.

Traders complain about working amid a sea of empty desks.