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years

(= 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 (= age) a prolonged period of time we've known each other for ages I haven't been there for years and years (= days) the time during which someone's life continues the monarch's last days in his final years

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Simple sentences

Generally speaking, women live longer than men by almost ten years.
Liz has been dead for eight years.
Three years have passed since then.
The university was founded by his father twenty years ago.
The war lasted two years.
It has taken forty-six years to build this temple.
The Olympic Games are held every four years.
Are you ten years old?
Few people live to be ninety years old.
I had an abortion two years ago.
A few years ago, our room had little furniture in it.
Ten years ago his theory would not have been generally accepted.
We have been good friends for ten years.
We've been close friends for many years.
I came to Tokyo three years ago and have been living here ever since.
It is not rare at all to live over ninety years.
It's quite difficult to master French in 2 or 3 years.
It would be fun to see how things change over the years.
It will take five to ten years for the technology to be ready.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.
Smith has spent years studying the effects of sleep and sleep loss on memory and learning.
Look how they all speak ill of me behind my back because I married a woman thirty years younger than me.
It's been ten years since we last met.
Didn't you know that he passed away two years ago?
You could count to ten when you were two years old.
Air quality has deteriorated these past few years.
Ten years is a long time to wait.
Don't you know that he passed away two years ago?
You look the way your father did thirty years ago.
Bank robbery will cost you ten years in prison.

Movie subtitles

Just wait five years!
I want you to help me understand what made Western civilization dominate the world for the Iast 500 years.
NIALL FERGUSON: Around 500 years ago, a band of intrepid sailors and soldiers from the petty warring kingdoms of medieval Europe changed the world.
The biggest and fastest industrial revolution ever, compressed into just 30 years.
It's almost as if the clock is being wound back 600 years, to the last time China led the world.
It was surpassed as the world's largest encyclopaedia only in 2007, after a reign of 600 years. by Wikipedia.
By contrast, it took the founder of the Ming dynasty 21 years to build a wall more than 20 miles long around his capital city, Nanjing.
English life expectancy at birth was a miserable 37 years.
No, 600 years ago, the idea of a civilized West would have seemed absurd.
But no, the Chinese got there 2,000 years ago.
China, 2,000 years ago.
Some scholars speculate they reached as far as northern australia, the Cape of Good Hope and greenland, and all this was years before the European Age of exploration had so much as begun.
Within just a few years, China turned in on itself.
In 1 498, more than 80 years after the Chinese explorer Zheng He had landed at Malindi on the Kenyan coast, Vasco da Gama turned up.
Kapteyn began enthusiastically and it took him several years to finish the work.
In the direction perpendicular to the disc the size was much smaller, of the order of 7,000 light years.
For twenty years people searched for a solution.
Per hydrogen atom it happens once every ten million years!
Imagine, ten million years.
The change of vision that happened in the past one hundred years, take my word for it, will happen again in the coming one hundred years.
We'd been fighting for 7 years.
I've been in the field for 3 years and I haven't killed a single Arab yet!
Ten governor-generals in 6 years!
Your convent's been here over 200 years - and you don't speak Arabic?
They've giving land to young soldiers who've completed 5 of their 7 years of service.
They'll have to spend at least 2 more years here.
I thought the battle of the smalah would end the war, but Abd el-Kader would be on the run for another 4 years.
One week of catching, a kid can make more than two years worth of allowance.
Would you mind talking to me as if I'm five years old?
Drugs deals have been financing dodgy US foreign policy for years.
I'm probably, without knowing it, less lonely than I have been in a long time because I'm interacting with people more often than I have in many years.
Around next month, I'm going to be leaving for China for several years, so the timing is just right. While I was traveling abroad, though it's not as much as you, I managed to make some money, too.
Her dad passed away 3 years ago.
Around 50 years of age. At the 5 year wedding anniversary. a 5 week old fetus, is in here.
He is just 8 years old.
Why would we want to read articles from so many years ago?
I've been on dialysis since they were 4 years old.
About 20 years her senior.
Ten years of bliss. and then she died.
It's been five years since I made love without the TV on.
And ten years since somebody held my hand.

News and current affairs

Yes, gold has had a great run, but so, too, did worldwide housing prices until a couple of years ago.
Today, 70 years later, much of the 1945 consensus no longer survives.
In recent years, other ideologies have also emerged to fill the human need for collective ideals.
A few years ago, however, I started paying attention to space again.
Eban's silence in the last years was not only a product of his disenchantment with Israeli politics or his failing health.
When the idea was first floated some 10 years ago, expansion into the Baltics was taken seriously by few people.
Only a few years ago EU and NATO enlargement were regarded as wild dreams.
WAGENINGEN, NETHERLANDS - Born in 1957, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is now more than 50 years old, and the European Commission is proposing what it calls a health check for its middle-aged child.
Nearly one billion people are trapped in chronic hunger - perhaps 100 million more than two years ago.
Indeed, during the past 20 years, they actually cut aid for agriculture programs, and only now are reversing course.
Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.
One estimate puts the cumulative spills over the past 50 years at approximately 10 million barrels - twice the size of the BP spill.
Investors in Enron waited years before discovering that something was amiss. Though sudden and vast, the change in America's fiscal stance already provides a clear inkling that something was amiss.
It will be years before the full magnitude of President Bush's deception is apparent.
Then I got distracted for about 40 years.
Two of them offset each other, but the third threatens what America needs most in the coming years: economic growth.
This is too small a pool of money from which to achieve deficit reduction on the scale that the US will need in the years ahead.
To acknowledge the truth would have meant admitting that for years they had overlooked the build-up of an unsustainable construction boom that now threatens to bankrupt the entire country.
By building up savings over a few years, the farmers eventually become creditworthy, or have enough cash to purchase vitally necessary inputs on their own.

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