Sentence examples for grueling years from inspiring English sources

After grueling years of secret development and false starts, Japanese scientists stared nervously earlier this month at a prototype of what they believe is the future of air travel.

I had put in grueling years at a specialized language study program, and I worried about that investment going to waste.

As for Nora, after plenty of harsh, grueling years, she has learned to compensate and sublimate.

By prolonging Judt's life the miracles of medical technology effectively extended the process of his dying over several grueling years.

States face huge deficits, even after several grueling years of them, and just as billions of dollars in stimulus money from Washington is drying up.

Eighteen grueling years as a professional basketball player and Jerry Stackhouse was slipping into uniform, color-coordinated sneakers included, for the first time on Christmas Day.

But Eritrea has a proud history, fighting a grueling 30-year guerrilla war to break away from Ethiopia.

But that's not because his grueling 20-year tenure at the helm of General Electric ended on Friday.

Coming off a grueling four-year stint at the Justice Department, Lanny A. Breuer is poised to make a soft landing in the private sector.

An exception is the Taiwanese-born performance artist Tehching Hsieh (pronounced dur-ching shay), specifically, the five, grueling one-year pieces he executed, mostly in New York, from 1978 to 1986.

Mr. Karami was regarded as an independent Arab nationalist who maintained a strong pro-Syrian position during Lebanon's grueling 12-year civil war.