years on end
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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
What would you tell fans wondering if this success can be repeated for years on end?
From Seattle Times • Oct. 9, 2023
All these endeavors follow the same basic blueprint: they use radio telescopes to monitor dozens of superpredictable pulsars for years on end to catch tiny variations in their rhythmic spinning.
From Scientific American • Jun. 28, 2023
This showed how little she understood as yet the Japanese family system, whereby relatives remain as permanent guests for years on end.
From Kimono by Paris, John
