Rather than waste years learning the common tongue between kings, those who took the throne simply took the rune as well.

She was impatient; she wanted to know what was the right path for her to take, not to waste years in finding it.

Often the candidates had to waste years in Rome, and either died there, or carried back a vivid impression of the dominant corruption.

Some waste years of their lives in violent, chaotic, overcrowded centres, rife with abuse, not knowing when or if they will see freedom again.

We've seen six wasted years with the Tories in charge of housing.

It saddened her and filled her with a sense of wasted years.

I wasted years in aimless travel, waiting for destiny to turn up.

He concluded: There is no such thing as nine wasted years behind us.

Later I said, Catty, can you ever forgive me for the wasted years?

In all these millions of wasted years, I have finally done something worthwhile.

I think the appropriate reaction is fury about the wasted years.

I thought of the wasted years of my life between thirteen and twenty-three.

Her mood darkened with an old sadness, regretting her wasted years.

Indeed a death-bed conversion by Labour after all these wasted years doesn't look good.

I wasted years with x! I have never heard a straight man say this.

There is nothing in Germany to make Canada envious and ashamed of wasted years.