Sentence examples for spending long months from inspiring English sources
Hyde worked on "The Gift" for seven years, barely scraping by, spending long months hunting through obscure folk tales for narratives that reflected what he came to call "the commerce of the creative spirit".
The family spent long months, as thousands across the Indonesian archipelago do, waiting for a refugee determination.
About three dozen participants in a May, 2012, mass protest spent long months in pre-trial detention, and a few were sentenced to several years in prison camps.
The rough takes he recorded at the Egrem studio in Havana were taken back to LA, where he spent long months in the studio refining and editing them.
No longer will students and postdoctoral fellows spend long months trying to isolate genes -- they will now simply look them up on the Web.
Willy's Overland plans to resume business after the war by offering a civilian jeep for sale, thus getting the jump on other motorcar companies, who will have to spend long months changing their factores over.
The physical presence of horses is conveyed with wonderful variety; Smiley has spent long months sitting in fields, watching them move, and her book loves to set down their movements, to write even the magical incantation of abstruse terminology.
In his broken English he explained that he was moved from one prison camp to another across Europe, spent long months in 1943-44 cutting peat, or perhaps laying railway ties, fought with anti-Communist Russians and ended up by 1945 driving trucks for the Americans.
She was spending long, exhausting months entrenched in acrimonious meetings with accountants and lawyers.
Nokubhega spends six long months in the isolation hospital.
— Karen Spain spent several long months before receiving her tax refund this year in a state of suspended panic.
