YEARS in Classic Quotes

1  Winston had seen O'Brien perhaps a dozen times in almost as many years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

2  He must, he thought, have been ten or eleven years old when his mother had disappeared.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

3  Another year, two years, and they would be watching her night and day for symptoms of unorthodoxy.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

4  There was a certain fitness in this, since her own husband had been vaporized a couple of years earlier.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

5  You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

6  He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

7  Sometimes they were released and allowed to remain at liberty for as much as a year or two years before being executed.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4

8  Its smooth creamy paper, a little yellowed by age, was of a kind that had not been manufactured for at least forty years past.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  Actually, as Winston well knew, it was only four years since Oceania had been at war with Eastasia and in alliance with Eurasia.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

10  there was a middle-aged woman might have been a jewess sitting up in the bow with a little boy about three years old in her arms.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

11  All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1

12  He would inform you with quiet pride, between whiffs of his pipe, that he had put in an appearance at the Community Centre every evening for the past four years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

13  The thing that now suddenly struck Winston was that his mother's death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

14  Repairs, except what you could do for yourself, had to be sanctioned by remote committees which were liable to hold up even the mending of a window-pane for two years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

15  That's better, comrade, that's MUCH better, she added encouragingly as Winston, with a violent lunge, succeeded in touching his toes with knees unbent, for the first time in several years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3

16  A handsome, tough-looking boy of nine had popped up from behind the table and was menacing him with a toy automatic pistol, while his small sister, about two years younger, made the same gesture with a fragment of wood.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2

17  The great purges involving thousands of people, with public trials of traitors and thought-criminals who made abject confession of their crimes and were afterwards executed, were special show-pieces not occurring oftener than once in a couple of years.

Nineteen Eighty-Four By George Orwell
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4