Example sentences for: year-long

How can you use “year-long” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The interesting Edwardian building was formerly the Pathological Institute, founded to combat the 19th century’s 30-year-long outbreak of bubonic plague.

  • At the same time, my mother invited a friend of hers for Christmas dinner because the woman recently discovered her husband's 6-year-long affair and has no one to share the holiday with.

  • In her year-long odyssey through the California justice system, Katherine, a 35-year-old single mother with three children, experienced failure at every turn.

  • The WP sees this turn of events as a "major defeat" for President Clinton and public health advocates, and a victory for the cigarette companies, bringing to an end "an unprecedented year-long effort to reduce smoking by young people and strictly regulate the tobacco industry."

  • Let us pause, during the New York Times' year-long celebration of its 100-year march to journalistic dominance, to glance at the newspaper that may dominate the next century of print journalism (if there is one): USA Today , a newspaper that scarcely needs a Web site (though, of course, it has one), because its front is a home page in print.


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