Sentence examples for grinding year from inspiring English sources

"It's been a pretty grinding year for me," the double Grand Slam champion said last week.

Like Little, Langan is interested in the release of pent-up anger from reasonable gripes: in this case, the source is the indignity visited, year after grinding year, on the residents of a fictional New England factory town.

The U.S. military dropped the most powerful non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal Thursday on a cave and tunnel complex that it said was used by Islamic State fighters in eastern Afghanistan, a stark reminder of a U.S. war now in its 16th grinding year.

Mr. Vidal is recovering from an operation on his bad knee, which, for five grinding years, threw off his gait, leaving both legs weakened.

This "ExComm" model worked well during the Cuban missile crisis; it broke down during the grinding years of war in Vietnam.

Greek ministers are spending this weekend, almost five grinding years since Athens was first bailed out, wrangling over the details of the spending cuts and economic reforms they have drawn up to appease their creditors.

After four grinding years of negotiations, the final details of a pioneering treaty aimed at fighting global warming emerged from talks in Morocco yesterday, and many large industrial countries, excepting the United States, said they were likely to ratify the agreement.

The notion that after spending five, six, seven grinding years working like dog, and then saying, 'oh, that was fun, now I choose to do something else' -- well, I don't believe it".

Those familiar with their exchange over the mayor's race say Mr. Bloomberg holds Mrs. Clinton in extremely high regard, admiring her willingness to devote four grinding years to working for a former rival, President Obama, and her effectiveness as a diplomat.

A former American secretary of state, James Baker, resigned in 2004 as the UN's special envoy after seven grinding years of trying to end the row.West of the wall, which is protected by sophisticated military equipment and an estimated 5m mines, the Sahrawis are now outnumbered by Moroccan settlers by at least two to one.

The two other choices fell into place, aides said, because Mr. Clinton had a closer personal chemistry with Mr. Berger than with Mr. Lake and because Mr. Lake came to realize that after four grinding years in the White House, he needed a change.