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  • noun Plural form of yeere.

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Examples

  • This vnusual deformitie hath been the more aggravated durynge myn longe yeeres of sittiynge at a deske at the custoum house.

    Crackpot Medieval "Facts" Richard Nokes 2006

  • Wuz finallee able to quit abowt 20 yeeres ago. sweetpea says:

    5 sekkon rool - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • “The strange adventures of Andrew Battell, of Leigh in Essex, sent by the Portugals prisoner to Angola, who lived there and in the adioining regions neere eighteene yeeres.”

    Essays 2007

  • Verily in mine eight and fixty yeeres have I not heard ye fellow to this fart…Prithee, lette ye author confeffe ye offfpring.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Verily in mine eight and fixty yeeres have I not heard ye fellow to this fart…Prithee, lette ye author confeffe ye offfpring.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • This Emperour, when hee was exalted vnto his gouernment, seemed to bee about the age of fourty or fourty fiue yeeres.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • But therefore did we make great haste all this way, because our Tartarian guides were straightly commaunded to bring vs vnto the court Imperiall with all speede, which court hath beene these if many yeeres, ordained for the election of the Emperour.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • And certaine men contained within those Caspian mountaynes, hearing as it was thought, the noyse of the armie, made a breach through, so that when the Tartars returned vnto the same place tenne yeeres after, they found the mountaine broken.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • I Frier Odoricus was there present in person for the space of three yeeres, and was often at the sayd banquets; for we friers Minorites haue a place of aboad appointed out for vs in the emperors court, and are enioined to goe and to bestow our blessing vpon him.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • And after three yeeres I departed out of the empire of Cataie, trauailing fiftie dayes iourney towards the West.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

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