years

[ US /ˈjɪɹz, jɝz/ ]
[ UK /jˈi‍əz/ ]
NOUN
  1. the time during which someone's life continues
    in his final years
    the monarch's last days
  2. a late time of life
    on the brink of geezerhood
    age hasn't slowed him down at all
    old age is not for sissies
    he's showing his years
    a beard white with eld
  3. a prolonged period of time
    I haven't been there for years and years
    we've known each other for ages
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How To Use years In A Sentence

  • Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
  • She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
  • The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
  • So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: ‘Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
  • The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
  • A few years ago she was the victim of a con man.
  • This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
  • A few years ago it was suggested that auroral phenomena could exist on Mars too.
  • Added to which there is a large increase in the fees receivable in 1994 to a level of almost £123,000 which accounts for the large increase in the gross profit over the previous and subsequent years.
  • Perhaps the years of abuse, ridicule and scorn make a fully grown redhead all the stronger for it. Times, Sunday Times
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