The book has taken me exactly one year to write.

He's planning to spend the next few years writing about all this.

So the man had now spent more than three years writing case histories, only the simple ones, of course.

During the following years both groups wrote and published articles against the other.

Q. You spent seven years writing 10 books that were never published.

He spent the following two years recovering and writing songs.

Books may take years to write, but most of them are made or broken before publication day.

In similar fashion, he has been spending the past several years writing his autobiography.

Every two years, the government must write a report on advances made in animal protection.

Here he remained five years, occasionally writing articles for the press against the republican form of government.