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several
Determiner
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Several things is a small number of things. More than two, but not very many.
It rained for several days last week.
We changed several of them, but left others untouched.
years
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noun
(= old age, age, eld, geezerhood)
a late time of life
old age is not for sissies
he's showing his years
age hasn't slowed him down at all
a beard white with eld
on the brink of geezerhood
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noun
(= age)
a prolonged period of time
we've known each other for ages
I haven't been there for years and years
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noun
(= days)
the time during which someone's life continues
the monarch's last days
in his final years