The US has been on the sanctions treadmill for years.

She's been cheating on her husband for years.

Turkey has teetered near crisis for years.

For many years, the magals remained virtually unchanged.

Milo Djukanovic's longtime grip on Montenegro

Mediobanca, the financial institution long at the heart of Italian family capitalism, was struggling since the death of its founder Enrico Cuccia and the removal of the man he had designated as his heir apparent.

Sentence Number 888,888 will bring its owner years of happiness.

Such trials would probably have gone on nearly forever, leaving gaping wounds open.

The US has been on the sanctions treadmill for years.

My current work is a style I have developed myself over the past years.

There is often a lag of years before moving from humanitarian relief to real economic development.

I don't think anyone has lived in this house for years.

In the meantime, people were left for years waiting in shelters.

Tina Alvarenga, who was a criadita in her childhood, visits the house that she worked in for years.

We're finally at the North Pole. This is months and months and months of dreaming to get here, years of training and planning and preparation.

It has defined the agenda for years to come banking union, fiscal union, and political union.

Energy investment decisions made today will lock in the world s emissions profile for years to come.

While the aid may keep them alive, they are left economically paralyzed for years to come.

For years, the world envied the Palestinian people s strong social fiber, as they held together despite the occupation.

Worse, QE is likely to cost taxpayers a bundle, while impairing the Fed s effectiveness for years to come.

If we fail to meet the challenge, the global crisis will endanger the world for years to come.

I hate long goodbyes.

The secular opposition s accession to power on the back of a tank might feed the Islamists rage for years to come.

After so many years of polarization at home and unilateralism abroad, the choice for president seems clear.

That decision, forced by the ECB s highly politicized Executive Board, will be studied and scorned by historians for years to come.

One issue that Obama is certain to have in his sights is a problem that shadowed the world for years.

The farmers of Manolada, praised many a times for their entrepreneurial spirit from government and media alike, have enjoyed this impunity for years.

For migration triggered by dire economic conditions is also happening between Latin American countries. Keeping this peaceful will be a vexing problem for the region s leaders in the months and years ahead.

A unique opportunity to strengthen the world s financial infrastructure and increase economic efficiency for many years to come could be slipping away.

This dynamic is something that we in South Asia have known and lived with for ages.

The fallout from a war in Iran would pin down the US in the Middle East for years to come, undermining its new strategic priorities.

There is enough hatred, corruption, and arms in the region to keep it in crisis for years to come.

Keeping this peaceful will be a vexing problem for the region s leaders in the months and years ahead.

These endless legal challenges will scare off investment in Crimea, requiring Russia to subsidize its occupation for years to come.

As a result, France has had chronic long term unemployment forecast to reach 10.5 by 2013 for many years.

But there is a rich lode of information, confirmations, reflections, and teachings that the region will be mining for insight for years to come.

I don't like long journeys.

In these circumstances, a US attack on Syria would almost certainly dash any hope of a US Iran rapprochement for years to come.

(Farmers have been promised cheap electricity for years so cheap that private sector power supplies are loath to make new investments.)

Unable to find work in physics for many years, he became instead a cattle rancher in Colorado.

For years, I, along with many others, have complained that emerging markets need greater representation in global financial governance.

Beyond their short term benefits to individuals, extensive economic analysis also has demonstrated significant financial benefits to society for years to come.

And the increasingly heavy influence of political factors on market performance will likely weigh on global growth for years to come.

Colombia s homicide rate, for years one of the highest in the world, has almost halved since 2002.

For years, I, along with many others, have complained that emerging markets need greater representation in global financial governance.