YEARS in a Sentence

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For YEARS, below is one of 420 sentences:
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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 Meanings and Examples of YEARS
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years
 n.  plural of YEAR
 n.  a time or era having a special significance
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  It appeared to be a handsome young man, about five and twenty years of age.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 21
2  Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  Six years have passed since I resolved on my present undertaking.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 1
4  I remained for several years their only child.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
5  In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  Her family is one aunt about a thousand years old.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
7  "Several years," he answered in a gratified way.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
8  She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  "We haven't met for many years," said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
10  The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
11  After she had obliterated three years with that sentence they could decide upon the more practical measures to be taken.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
12  He come out to see me two years ago and bought me the house I live in now.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
13  I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
14  In all the seven bygone years, Hester Prynne had never before been false to the symbol on her bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
15  It seemed not yesterday, not one, not two, but many days, or even years ago, since he had quitted them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
Context  Highlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  We bought our house several years ago.
17  She was hired three years ago.
18  These ridiculous rules and regulations should have been done away with years ago.
19  There were forest clearances in Java thousands of years ago.
20  My pay has not increased from the rate fixed two years ago.
21  He taught physics to the students at a college ten years ago.
22  Dinosaurs died out millions of years ago.
23  His novels had a great vogue ten years ago.
24  As long as two years ago, Mandelson tried to unpick the reasons for the disaster.
25  A temple existed here hundreds of years ago.
26  A few years ago a car fuelled by solar energy would have been inconceivable.
27  Many things now cost double what they did a few years ago.
28  A hundred years ago, Britain had a large empire.
29  I went through my midlife crisis about four or five years ago, when I was forty.
30  Such attitudes were not at all uncommon thirty years ago.