He spent the following two years recovering and writing songs.

He spent most of that year recovering from the surgery.

A stressed tree may take a year or two to recover from a hard season.

They spent the next five years recovering from the disaster the moves turned out to be.

But the image Continental lost last winter may take years to recover.

He spent two years recovering from the experience, which had taken a toll on his creative and personal life.

He said it could take years to recover to the highs of 1999 and 2000.

The region's economy has been ravaged and could take years to recover.

Studies show that the river systems will take years to recover from the 1991 eruption.

The latter book required 9 years of research to recover many songs that were never written to paper.