Definitions

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  • noun Plural form of year.
  • noun colloquial, hyperbolic An unusually long time

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  • noun a prolonged period of time
  • noun the time during which someone's life continues
  • noun a late time of life

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Examples

  • "I think the next two years – literally the next two years_ are going to determine whether this state falls apart politically and fiscally," said Democrat John Kitzhaber, who's running for a third term as governor of Oregon after an eight-year hiatus from elected office.

    The Comeback Kids Of 2010?: Five Gubernatorial Candidates Who Want Their Old Jobs Back 2010

  • "I think the next two years – literally the next two years_ are going to determine whether this state falls apart politically and fiscally," said Democrat John Kitzhaber, who's running for a third term as governor of Oregon after an eight-year hiatus from elected office.

    The Comeback Kids Of 2010?: Five Gubernatorial Candidates Who Want Their Old Jobs Back 2010

  • Knowledge…..years I think you mean the need for teachers is fast growing in the recent years right?

    can you please proof read my essay? « Literacy Skills « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009

  • That set the stage for 24 years of Clinton-Bush-Clinton, and an arranged marraige between Chelsea and Jeb's boy, George P. George P will be 40 in 2016, and will be elected President with Chelsea as his Vice President to form a truly imperial Presidency that will span an incredible ** 44 years** once Chelsea is elected and re-elected in 2024 and 2028.

    Bill Clinton: Hillary Will Call Upon Bush 41 2009

  • Myanmar military junta sentenced nine monks to two years 'imprisonment yahooBuzzArticleHeadline =' Myanmar military junta sentenced nine monks to two years\ 'imprisonment'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: Nine Buddhist monks in Burma face 2 years in jail since July sentence.'

    Myanmar military junta sentenced nine monks to two years' imprisonment 2008

  • Eight years of undergraduate and three years+ of seminary leading into low paying jobs of often questionable security.

    You've gone to the best schools, gotten the best grades, now why can't you get a good job being a good person for a good salary? Ann Althouse 2007

  • But here in the Natural History Museum in London is this little pair of insect jaws that was already a couple of hundred million years old when Stegosaurus first appeared -- that has endured, flimsy as it was, for _four hundred million years_ -- a ragged pair of jaws, yes, but very durable.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2005

  • Suzi was sentenced under the Youth Corrections Act (0-6 years; eligible for parole at any time, but the sentence was later reduced to one year), and I was sentenced to one year to be served on and after the completion of my present sentence of four years….

    Letter from the Boston Two Femia, Frank 1969

  • Dick says he organized an aviation department there and won some kind of a prize for an improved model and in the midst of it all, Susanne, Philip's grandfather up and died, after quarreling for years and _years_ with the whole family, and left Philip _all_ his money!

    Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple

  • _ This in forty-two years, the eight being subtracted from the fifty, would amount to just _six years_.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 1 of 4 American Anti-Slavery Society

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