Sentence examples for years of rough from inspiring English sources

Years of rough weather have damaged the work, which was commissioned by the Dia Foundation and completed in 1977.

After years of rough reclaimed wood, dark leather and stark Edison bulbs, Washington's restaurants and bars have taken on a fresher, brighter look.

Despite years of rough relationships with the United States, including the expulsion from Caracas on Tuesday of two American military attaches who were accused of seeking to destabilize the country, there were signs that both sides were trying to put on a moderate face, at least for a day.

While some fell prey to bandits who waylaid them as they fetched water and wood, far more died of diarrhea spread by filthy water, pneumonia picked up in swirls of desert dust and fire smoke, malaria carried into their tents by mosquitoes and other maladies from years of rough living.

When the Texas singer-songwriter Townes Van Zandt died, in 1997, following years of rough living, substance abuse, and manic depression, he was an archetypal cult figure unknown to many but intensely beloved by those who felt a kinship with him.

Kresa is also articulating what the industry is finally acknowledging: Years of rough and inconsistent treatment by the government have harmed the weapons sector.

"I had thought 51 years of rough-and-tumble journalism in Washington made me more enemies than friends, but my recent experience suggests the opposite may be the case".

In Against the World, Against Life, his biography of the writer, the French novelist Michel Houellebecq ascribes Lovecraft's racism to his relatively wealthy New England upbringing suddenly bumping up against two years of rougher living in multicultural New York.

By this time last year, University officials knew that they were in for a year of rough sledding — with intensifying concerns about the pace of the U.S. economic recovery, Europe's worsening financial crisis, and a slowdown in fast-growing economies like China's.

And to themselves, he said, especially if they need a little good press, like Lindsay Lohan, who has suffered through a year of rough tabloid treatment for her party-girl ways and has vowed to visit Kenya in support of the One Campaign.

Two years of sleeping rough, surviving on little or nothing, with no one to turn to for aid.