Sentence examples for consumed five years from inspiring English sources
While Lethem says that the book has consumed five years of his life, he's actually quite prolific.
Tam's battle to get the Slants' name legal recognition has consumed five years of his life and cost him thousands of dollars.
It is a project that has consumed seven years of the director's life, and for his energy and sheer originality, Jackson deserves his armful of Oscars.
Shell's Arctic quest has consumed seven years and $4 billion over two presidential administrations, overcoming a raft of environmental concerns, the opposition of a wily and unpredictable Inupiat Eskimo leader and the fallout from the BP disaster.
It took Matt Wetsel, 26, more than a month to work up the courage to try group therapy for anorexia, the eating disorder he says consumed two years of his life.
In the mid-1990s big companies tried to erect data "warehouses," which can consume five years and millions of dollars in the making and still flop.
Mr. Chappell of Berenberg Bank estimated that the cost to Deutsche Bank of meeting new requirements on capital would consume four years' worth of profits.
He has been commissioned to paint a pair of murals for the George Washington Masonic National Memorial, in Alexandria - a project that will consume three years and Cox has no idea how many pounds of pigment.
If true, it would take five years to consume the pipeline of homes being built, up from three before the global financial crisis.But many of those projects are in fact little more than holes in the ground.
The process consumed five of the eight years that the director has been toiling on the project, which had its premiere this month at the Cannes Film Festival and is expected to reach theaters in the fall.
The research and gathering of materials took years although the actual writing consumed about five years, interrupted by three very difficult moves, the first when I sold my beloved Bird Cloud, in Wyoming, disposed of many belongings and half of my library.
