He died at his home on 6 December 2012, aged 61 years old, after a two-year fight with cancer.

She told me about her two-year fight with the I.R.S.

The 42d Street Development Project responded to my inquiries with irritation and umbrage over the deli owner's two-year fight.

The case officer says it would be better to settle the matter without a two-year legal fight.

A two-year legal fight over the movie rights to "Love in the Time of Cholera" may have ended, in San Francisco.

One of his students was Randy Pausch, who gained national renown during his ultimately unsuccessful two-year fight with pancreatic cancer.

But after a two-year fight in which 30 inspectors signed a petition on his behalf, Dr. Johnson was reinstated last year at his earlier pay scale.

Mr. Barbour's memo was an opening shot in a two-year fight inside the Bush administration for dominance between environmental protection and energy production on clean air policy.

Mr. Tyson unleashed a bitter, two-year fight and finally prevailed in a battle that demonstrated his dogged determination to maintain industry dominance.

The Pearsons' two-year fight against deportation has taken its toll.