year after year
Example Sentences
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It’s good that Americans are spending less on healthcare, but it’s also hard to believe, given long-running trends in these expenses rising steadily year after year.
From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026
In the 1940s, University of Chicago economist Frank H. Knight devised a thought experiment called the Crusonia plant: a miraculous organism that, once planted, yields fruit year after year without any effort.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 27, 2026
If sentiment “plods along quarter after quarter, year after year, it will eventually deliver negative results for not just growth but for societal well-being,” Bernstein said.
From Barron's • May 27, 2026
His success is not just in a one-off season - instead it has been built over that three-year period, by consistent improvement year after year.
From BBC • May 26, 2026
I plummeted down past the zigzaggers, the students, the experts, through year after year of doubleness and smiles and compromise, into my own past.
From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath
