Sentence examples similar to years squeezed from inspiring English sources

For years, squeezing a new network onto the limited available lineup meant cutting deals with Tele-Communications Inc. (now part of AT&T), Time Warner and a handful of other conglomerates.

A bill approved by Italy's cabinet of ministers on 15 October would over 3 years squeeze €100 million from a €6.7 billion budget for universities and €120 million out of a €1.6 billion budget for public research centers.

"A bill approved by Italy's cabinet of ministers on 15 October would over 3 years squeeze €100 million from a €6.7 billion budget for universities and €120 million out of a €1.6 billion budget for public research centers," Margottini wrote.

Last month, industry leader Annaly Mortgage Management cut its dividend for the third time in less than a year, squeezed by a rise in the short-term rate at which it can borrow, without a commensurate rise in the long-term rate at which it can lend.

Meanwhile the price of the iron ore the steelmakers import as their core ingredient rose by nearly 50% in the first half of the year, squeezing margins.

That, however, is precisely what they did this week when Iraq's government approved a troop-withdrawal agreement which the government of Nuri al-Maliki had spent a year squeezing out of its reluctant American interlocutors.The agreement under discussion stipulates that American troops will withdraw into their bases by the middle of next year and leave Iraq altogether by the end of 2011.

Penn cued up the film for me, and Leo and his gentle charm filled the room: When I was eleven, my mother — who was maybe four foot ten — and I occupied the back seat of a Greyhound bus and drove to California nonstop, where my father had been for a year, squeezing oranges to make a living.

I worry that one day I will be a mother who ends up in the bath, reading a water-crinkled book that I've been trying to finish for more than a year, squeezing the last gloops of peppermint something or other from a plastic bottle into the water, wishing that there were more space for me than this.

Official figures are expected to confirm that wage growth continues to pick up in the UK and has hit a five-year high, bringing relief to households after years of squeezed living standards.

Inflation fell to its lowest level in more than four years last month, easing the burden on households after years of squeezed incomes.

Public-sector workers, who staged a large strike over the government's pension reforms this week (see article), face a further two years of squeezed pay.