"You work 50 years on a house, and it's gone in a second."

"They will work two years in Japan, and then be assigned to this country."

He would later write "I have worked eight years of my life, day and night, with working men.

I had to work 41 years and 11 months to receive my maximum pension.

I worked 20 years driving a cab for the money to open this store.

And you'll need to work 40 years, not 35, for full benefits.

"I worked 33 years, seven days a week," he said.

He, too, had worked many years for this command, and in another year his boat would be gone.

No matter how many years he worked, Josh would never get used to the sight of a child in a hospital.

Small though she was, she'd worked forty years of long hours, and earned surprisingly good health as a result.