Sentence examples for surviving for years from inspiring English sources

He learned that brine shrimp were a quirk of nature, surviving for years in suspended animation.

He died of esophageal cancer in 1962, after surviving for years on the kindness of family, friends and barroom strangers.

Poorer countries now host 80% of all refugees, partly because richer ones are keener to keep asylum-seekers at arm's length by paying for refugees to get aid nearer to where they fled from.That means people are surviving for years under blue tarpaulins in isolated camps: for example, about 120,000 Burundians have been sweltering in Tanzania for decades.

But they have been surviving for years now, even though they closed their English online store last month.

Pastoralism in Bhutan has proven to be a resilient system surviving for years, albeit in a declining trend.

Prion diseases, it turns out, have an insane potential for dormancy, surviving for years or decades before kicking into gear and ravaging our bodies.

Tough, weedlike flowers that would survive for years.

SeaFrance, owned by the French state, has been struggling to survive for years.

SeaFrance, owned by the French state railway, SNCF, has been struggling to survive for years.

"My responsibility now is to help the paper survive for years," he said last week.

Slavery might have survived for years, in which case the Civil War would have felt half-pointless.