Sentence examples for years to extract from inspiring English sources

It took Prieto three years to extract himself fully from the business world.

Researchers from the Cochrane Collaboration fought for four years to extract the full patient data from drug trials by the manufacturer, Roche.

But it took him about three years to extract himself from writing-for-hire assignments to sit down and write what would be his directorial debut.

I have tried repeatedly over the years to extract from the authorities both in Montserrat and in London explanations (and documentation that I know to exist) to understand why the response to it was – and remains – so pitifully inadequate.

But after business creditors were dealt with, Spanish social security pursued him for five more years to extract repayment of severance money it had paid to the firm's employees on his behalf.

In Rooney's case it means Manchester United now has four years to extract the best of his unquestionable ability, or to sell him at a price United hopes would recoup the millions it is paying him.

We can, says Wilkens, "look for potentially interesting features without committing months and years to extracting them via close reading".

It took their grandmother a year to extract all the children from the foster care bureaucracy.

According to recent statistics from Traffic, a wildlife trade monitoring program run by the World Wildlife Fund, fishermen kill about 1,600 female sturgeons a year to extract caviar, while hatcheries produce only about 1,800 a year.

In addition, Israeli and Jordanian industries on the south end of the sea are letting 180 million gallons of the mineral-rich water evaporate every day -- about 66 billion gallons a year -- to extract chemicals.

One scientist has spent eight years attempting to extract sunbeams from cucumbers.