Sentence examples for stuck for three years from inspiring English sources

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When my parents moved to a super-preppy town in Connecticut when I was 13, it seemed I had little choice but to change my name, a shift that stuck for three years (I chose Cara).

Tightening of China's standards has been stuck for three years in a bureaucratic war between the environment ministry and the main economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, said a Beijing official who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the subject publicly.

Tightening of China's national standards has been stuck for three years in a bureaucratic war between the environment ministry and the main economic planning agency, the National Development and Reform Commission, said a Beijing official who insisted on anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the subject publicly.

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Following a couple more similarly unpopular exhibitions, he was "completely stuck for two years.

But in the writing of his last and greatest novel, A Passage to India, EM Forster got stuck for nine years.

David Wassmann, chief marketing officer for Car.com, said the company paid "close to seven figures" for its new domain name last year, after being stuck for seven years with Stoneage.com.com

Stockmarkets plunged as Mr Jaitley spoke, only to surge as his abstruse speech was decoded.Mr Jaitley, in a yellow Nehru waistcoat, said that economic growth, which has been stuck for two years below 5%, the worst performance in a quarter of a century, would bounce back to an annual 7-8% in the next three years.

He said, 'I got my whole family, we watched "Men in Black," and "Men in Black II" is funnier.' He loves his character, Tommy loves his character" -- a reference to TOMMY LEE JONES, who, like Mr. Smith, plays a black-suited agent assigned to boss around New York's space aliens, or try to -- "and I'm stuck for two years in post-production".

According to diplomats who spoke with VICE News, an arms embargo will stick for five years and restrictions related to ballistic missiles will stay in place for eight years, as will asset freezes on individuals like Suleimani — the absolute limit for such controls.

You stuck it for three years – and probably should have chucked it earlier.

Once you're at a university, you're stuck there for three years or more – it is not at all easy to leave and go elsewhere, and universities know this.

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