Sentence examples for for spending years from inspiring English sources

After all, wasn't the three-star Michelin chef a man famous for spending years – decades – in search of the scientifically perfect ice cream?

Mr. Kaarmann is one of the last of the so-called Forest Brothers, the bands of Baltic-state guerrillas regarded as heroic figures here for spending years, even decades, in hiding from Soviet forces, who wrested Estonia from the Nazis.

The DA has recently come under great scrutiny for spending years refusing to review convictions that he and his predecessor obtained through working with a homicide detective of such dubious repute.

In my recent column in The Hill titled Obama's health care Katrina I took President Obama to task -- proudly -- for spending years telling Americans they would keep their insurance policies when he knew millions of Americans could not.

The North Carolina General Assembly has approved a $19 billion state budget for the spending year that started a month ago.

It feels oddly like quite a good advert for spending 16 years making an album.

TWO seconds of metallic music may seem a rather trivial basis for spending 12 years battling through the German courts.

Palladio got four gold scudi for preparation of plans for the house, and ten gold scudi for spending two years supervising construction.

Washington and Oregon, for instance, spent years collaborating on plans for a new bridge on I-5, spanning the Columbia River.

Motorola, for example, spent years trying to make their phones smaller, while everyone else was making their phones smarter.

Not just volunteered for but spent years and untold amounts of money trying to get.