Participants spend from 16 months to five years in the program.

Rather than rent a building, the company decided to build its own offices and then spent 18 months to two years looking for a suitable area.

The 27-year-old from Philadelphia estimated he has spent from two to three years in jail.

The nurses spent from 6 months to two years working in hospitals, clinics and feeding camps.

Brothers spend two to three years living in the community for religious training.

Many said that because this was their second career they did not want to spend the additional three to five years required to specialize further.

They spend one to two years in the root of their host plant.

After spending two to three years in kindergarten, it takes six years for them to complete and take the primary school certificate.

The agency, in turn, will spend two to three years reviewing it.

The new welfare law, in addition to promoting abstinence, limits the time young mothers can spend on public assistance to two years.