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1  He had changed since his New Haven years.
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2  "Several years," he answered in a gratified way.
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3  Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
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4  They've been living over that garage for eleven years.
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5  I almost married a little kyke who'd been after me for years.
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6  "Oh, hello, old sport," he said, as if he hadn't seen me for years.
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7  Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years.
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8  I had expected that Mr. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years.
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9  "We haven't met for many years," said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.
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10  The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent.
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11  She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.
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12  I was brought up in America but educated at Oxford because all my ancestors have been educated there for many years.
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13  In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
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14  Cody was fifty years old then, a product of the Nevada silver fields, of the Yukon, of every rush for metal since Seventy-five.
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15  He had been coasting along all too hospitable shores for five years when he turned up as James Gatz's destiny at Little Girl Bay.
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16  He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths so that he could "come over" some afternoon to a stranger's garden.
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17  A brewer had built it early in the "period" craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he'd agreed to pay five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw.
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