Sentence examples for fruitless years from inspiring English sources

Before that, he spent three fruitless years buried in the minors with the Los Angeles organization.

During six fruitless years of exploration, D'Arcy and his Anglo-Persian Oil Company (A.P.O.C).

Eventually, after fruitless years of argument, the Iranian parliament voted in 1951 to nationalize the oil company.

The man refused to believe she was dead but after two fruitless years of searching he gave up.

After five, largely fruitless years of trying to establish alternatives sources of growth, the frustration of people is becoming evident.

The younger Icahn, 31, entered the family business after graduating from Princeton and spending a few relatively fruitless years directing movies.

But John Kerry, America's secretary of state, sounded positively relieved, after a fruitless year trying to sort out Israel and Palestine, when called on to tackle it on his first official visit to Africa.

Closer to the truth was that, having spent a fruitless year in a Catholic seminary at age 13, I was jealous that Geoff had succeeded where I had failed.

"Somewhere I've failed or have been failed," Jami Demuth, a 38-year-old mother of three in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, wrote last year, detailing her fruitless year-long search for a job.

After a fruitless years-long search for a fugitive murder suspect, Newport Beach authorities are taking a very different approach toward capturing their man: On Wednesday, they announced the release of a new six-part podcast detailing the gruesome crime.

It had, so far, been a fruitless three years: she hadn't made a single contact.