Which preposition to use with apprenticeships

in Occurrences 37%

Bernard MooreBarney, for shortwas to be a physician, and had already passed an apprenticeship in a pharmacy, coincident with his college term in Jack's class.

to Occurrences 34%

Ringan was the surprise, for you would not think that sailing a ship was a good apprenticeship to forestry.

of Occurrences 20%

"Education is the apprenticeship of life.

as Occurrences 14%

He served his apprenticeship as secretary of the Pittsburgh club and he served it well.

for Occurrences 11%

The short stories served as an apprenticeship for the longer romances, of which Treasure Island is the best constructed and the most interesting.

with Occurrences 9%

The alert had certainly come from the inquiry intrusted to the nurse-agent at Rougemont, that visit which she had made to the hamlet of Saint-Pierre in quest of information respecting the lad who was supposed to be in apprenticeship with Montoir the wheelwright.

by Occurrences 4%

Even Shakespeare served a poetic apprenticeship by writing many sonnets as well as semi-lyrical poems, like Venus and Adonis.

at Occurrences 3%

I made a faithful study of canoe-building, and I thought that I should like to serve an apprenticeship at that trade for one season, going into the woods for bark with my "boss," making the canoe there, and returning in it at last.

before Occurrences 3%

Although intellectual maturity is reached at an earlier age in the sunny South than in the fog-haunted lands of Northern Europe, Lorenzo had enjoyed a long apprenticeship before being called to undertake the duties devolving on him as the uncrowned king of Florence.

on Occurrences 3%

In that part of the world all new-comers have to take walking-lessons; unless, indeed, they have already served an apprenticeship on Cape Cod, or in some other place equally arenarious.

without Occurrences 2%

He exposed the corruptions and abominations of the apprenticeship without reserve.

among Occurrences 2%

The schools are full of native children, while large numbers are distributed in a sort of apprenticeship among Liberian families for training in the arts of civilized life.

behind Occurrences 2%

She had even served an Indian squaw with coloured calico of an astonishing pattern, had clicked off the proper number of yards in the most business-like fashion, and then had demanded: "What next, if you please?" in a manner as collected as if she had served an apprenticeship behind a counter.

from Occurrences 2%

The former said: "He believed that a proposition would be made to abandon the apprenticeship from the 1st of August, but he would say let it be abandoned from Sunday next.

under Occurrences 2%

Be it remembered, too, that Vasari was a good judge of the quality of a Florentine dame's scolding, for he had himself in his younger days passed a painful apprenticeship under the weight of Lucretia Feti's tongue.

along Occurrences 1%

"Oh, hell," said Casson, whose regiment, dismounted, had served muddy apprenticeship along the York River, "if they're going to begin that kind of thing again I'd rather be at home laying gas pipes on Broadway!"

around Occurrences 1%

From time to time certain persons in clerical robes appeared in the audience; the austerity of their habit contrasting somewhat strangely with the attire of the elegant women, men of fashion and young actors in their apprenticeship around them; but matters always settled themselves.

like Occurrences 1%

The best printer in Boston said, "I am willing to take women into my office at once, if you can find women who will submit to an apprenticeship like men."

Which preposition to use with  apprenticeships