Dr. Miles, for example, spent three years battling state licensing officials who wanted access to his private psychiatric records.

He had spent his remaining years battling lung cancer.

My sister, Diane, has spent the past 22 years battling schizophrenia.

Twelve years battling the odds in one of our nation's poorest states.

But many of us are prepared if necessary to spend the next 15 years battling Citibank.

She and Chuck had spent ten years battling unsuccessfully for a permanent truce.

She would spend ten years battling with the authorities who insisted her children should attend school.

He spent ten years battling in court to get the property rezoned.

The lawyers, she said, spent five years battling over the divorce settlement, but money, it seems, was never really a problem.

This will be his fourth year battling for the fifth spot in New York's starting rotation.