years on end
Example Sentences
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"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
Many of these individuals lived in correctional facilities, effectively cut off from broader society, for years on end.
From BBC • Feb. 22, 2025
But the second you have to sit in that training room for weeks and months and years on end, it weighs on you mentally because you aren’t a part of the team as much anymore.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 2, 2024
And if left untreated for years on end, pellagra is deadly.
From Scientific American • Oct. 26, 2023
Yet, for years on end, I made the same demand.
From Comrade Yetta by Edwards, Albert
