Sentence examples for painstaking years from inspiring English sources

The Clean Air Act was developed through painstaking years of compromise and collaboration.

As guest director, he has been working on the 2014 festival for "the past two painstaking years".

Four painstaking years later, the team has confirmed the geodetic effect and put a credible frame-dragging result within reach.

Look at Libya (before the recent uprising), Vietnam and Northern Ireland, he insists, and the painstaking years of quiet discussions with each of them.

That fire led to more than five painstaking years of cleaning and restoration of the seat of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

It took percussionist and instrument-maker Thomas Meixner three painstaking years: each obscure material had to be sourced, each exact tuning replicated.

I spent a painstaking year either side of my wedding, shaving off invisible parts of the tablets, overanalysing the doctor's advice to "taper down slowly".

Blame the chilling effect for the painstaking seven years it took Vollmar to convince Brown's Shoes to open a store in Pella.

Sleeps 4 Book it 0844 249 8090; pureholidayhomes.com (ref 7643) This delightful 250-year-old Andalucian town house, called "The House of Mirrors", is the result of a painstaking three-year restoration.

The Germans' painstaking 12-year excavation of this temple represents a start.

She wrote about the painstaking two-year process – it was completed in 2006 – in her eponymous memoir of the place.