Sentence examples for instructive years from inspiring English sources

Largely self-taught, he spent five instructive years of unremitting effort in the Netherlands.

Akbar's father, Humayan, spent instructive years at the Persian court while in exile from India.

After eight instructive years, she felt confident enough to set up on her own in 2001 and now leads a team of seven, which oversees six or seven projects at a time from an office on Richmond Common.

It has been instructive over the years to witness the well-to-do of Beverly Hills and Hancock Park devouring the Boulez "Sur Incises" in near-primitive outdoor settings.

To read Thucydides on how the Athenians mismanaged the Sicilian expedition was painfully instructive during the Vietnam years, and it was to provide such instruction, not details of agrarian production, that Thucydides wrote.

That day half a century after the publication of Muddy Waters the Army Corps of Engineers honored him for his severe, but instructive critique over the years.

Similar arguments were forwarded to predict that molecular genetic alterations would not be instructive to metastasis research years ago.

It is instructive that month after month, year after year, this 'review' panel always voted for more medication—despite the scientific literature showing that periodic respites from drugs are advisable and that prolonged use of antipsychotic drugs is proper only when the medical need is clear and compelling". Psychologists Brieff 26-27 (fomitted omitted).

Merrie Spaeth, crisis management strategist and former Director of Media Relations at Ronald Reagan's White House, launched the hilarious-yet-instructive "Bimbo Awards" 15 years ago for the purpose of recognizing "dumb public comments made during the year".

There isn't much in the historical record on these questions, but one example from 20 years ago is instructive.

That a field's founder is still doing battle with some of its oldest demons more than 40 years later is instructive.