years on end
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Instead, over the last five years, it has turned the historic stretch of Crenshaw Boulevard into a nuisance, a ghost-town construction site with vandalized fences and barricades sitting for years on end.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026
But the amount of surviving material from the early 1680s onwards is extraordinary, providing access to an almost daily flow of reports for years on end.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
"Hundreds of prisoners end up locked away for years on end, with no way of receiving visits from their lawyers and families," Amnesty International said in a 2021 report on their website.
From Barron's ● Apr. 23, 2026
The status quo means developers remain locked in battles with Gilbert and others for years on end.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2025
He had gone thrilling at all this for years on end, because it came from the lips of a pretty and engaging woman, with whom it was no more than a canting shibboleth.
From Despair's Last Journey by David Christie Murray
