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By the time his power line and wind farm — known as Chokecherry and Sierra Madre — start coming online in 2026, the company will have been working on them for nearly two decades.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 23, 2022

Manchester United have had a couple of weeks off since their last game because of a Covid-19 outbreak, but their training ground reopened this week and Ralph Rangnick will have been working them hard.

From BBC • Dec. 24, 2021

I’ve no doubt that the Scots will have been working away and will make themselves something similar.

From Washington Times • Sep. 20, 2019

When the movie comes out December 14th, I will have been working on this project three years almost to the day.

From The Verge • Dec. 17, 2018

Never bother a bit, lad," was the reply; "remember one thing:—You will know more about that subject than any man in the chapel, because you will have been working at it.

From The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching by Jackson, J. Dodd (James Dodd)