You have to understand he has lost 15 years of his life.
As though she had never lost five years of her life in a single, fatal moment.
He has lost too many years of family life to want to strike out on his own.
She had lost more than thirty years of her life.
He had lost too many years of his life there.
I'm the one who did what you said and lost two years of my life!
"I feel sometimes that I've lost 10 years of my life."
How did we lose four years in a year and a half?
He'd already lost five years he wasn't going to get back.
"But me, I lost seven years of sleep in business with him."