Sentence examples for consume years from inspiring English sources

It is a vote for a process that would consume years of parliamentary time, divert precious public resources to battalions of lawyers, and jeopardise the effective governance of our country.

"There's psychological as well as practical value in using one as a sketch for a novel; the idea of undertaking a narrative of three or four hundred pages, which might consume years of your life, is pretty daunting".

The basic engineering on the vaccine occurred in the late 1990s, and extensive field trials consumed years more and hundreds of millions of dollars.

The battle against the North Carolina law, considered one of the nation's most far-reaching, consumed years of litigation by the Obama administration and a wide coalition of civil rights organizations.

Those efforts sit atop dozens of aborted projects — some just ideas, others that consumed years — like a never built jet pack and giant blimps that would haul cargo with the same efficiency as an ocean liner.

According to Sengillo, her disease consumed years of her life and left her thousands of dollars in debt.

Yerba maté, the local herbal tea, is consumed year-round chilled in summer, hot in winter.

Put another way, Mr. Dhall cautions, what India consumes year-round is what Britain drinks during the Christmas season.

Ice cream is fantastic and should be consumed year-round.

No matter the emphatic partying or quantities of champagne consumed, year's end is invariably a time of reflection and sadness.

Many vegetables were canned and consumed year-round.