Her first bout with cancer - a three-year struggle that involved drugs, chemotherapy and radiation treatments - ended in 1998.

Her church won a three-year struggle for permission to build an 800-seat sanctuary in a woodsy area in 2001.

The Crab House, with its absentee management based in Texas, was unable to make a go of it after a three-year struggle.

Researching my book was a three-year struggle to distinguish the real turtle soup from the mock.

During his valiant three-year struggle with cancer, he never stopped working.

In 1989, Diane Itter succumbed to a three-year struggle with cancer, at the age of 43.

A three-year struggle to save the Western Union Corporation has come to a successful end.

If, however, the bitter three-year struggle that corroded Woody's heart can serve any positive goal, it should be to affect a serious reformation of divorce law.

Boucher died on Christmas Day 2004 after a three-year struggle with cancer.

So began a three-year struggle.