Sentence examples for Two years walking from inspiring English sources

Mr. Tauranac spent two years walking the streets, verifying his research and distilling snippets of obscure Manhattan lore.

Though more at home in the city (she was born in an attic on Wimpole Street, London) she spent two years walking through jungle, kayaking, on one nervous occasion, down a river in Laos, or climbing up a Sumatran volcano to get to the ridge to which the tigers, threatened by logging, had retreated.

Colin Angus spent two years walking, biking, rowing and skiing his way toward that goal.

The right-handed Powell, who beat the Mets earlier this month for his first victory in the majors in two years, walked six in five innings and threw more than half his pitches for balls.

Ailin Kojima, a shuttle rider and a big fan of Mr. Homa's for two years, walked up on Friday and quietly slipped a crisp $50 bill into his hand.

I worked at Gawker for four years, walking the tightrope.

Helmreich had spent four years walking every block in the five boroughs that's a hundred and twenty thousand blocks and six thousand miles.

She spent her first six years walking on her hands before Deborah McFadden, then the director of the International Children's Alliance, adopted her during an overseas trip.

"I have spent four years walking, talking and asking, with no language except respect and curiosity, about the lives of the people I photographed," he says.

At that time, Hilmer, now 23, had been modeling for three years — walking in shows for Chanel, Saint Laurent and Céline — and had just started her first semester at N.Y.U.

Constantine's love for horses had inspired her to become a mounted policewoman in London, but was deterred when she found she was required to do four years walking the beat.