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successive
Adjective
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Successive things follow in order, one after another.
Successive governments have refused to make the changes.
Edward Kawak won in four successive years (1982-1985).
Cancers were developing at younger and younger ages with each successive generation in each family.
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