has been employed for nine years

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joham

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The French chef, who has been employed for nine years and travels with the designer wherever he goes.


Can 'has been employed' go with the duration 'for nine years' ?

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Yes, that's fine. But your sentence is not good in terms of parallelism. I would not "and" together "has been" with the present tense "travels."

Remove the "and" and make it a dependent clause:

...The French chef, who has been employed for nine years, travels with...
 
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