How to use "years" in a sentence

He and his men stole horses and hid from the law during the last years of the nineteenth century.

Some of them are more than five thousand years old

I guess they are about twenty-five years old.

Steve had climbed for many years

"It looks like a city from thousands of years ago."

I stayed in that school for five or six years

Instead of coming down in the sea when we returned, the space ship came down in the jungle somewhere, and it was four years before the NASA people found us! But the ape and I were soon good friends

I heard that she went to Chicago, but that was five years ago.'

Then you went up into space and I lost you for four years, and I think you changed

'Jenny married two years ago;

We came here about three years ago.'

'How long have we been friends, Forrest? Thirty years? Sometimes it doesn't seem true.' She moved nearer, and gave me a kiss

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation

But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free

One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains of discrimination

One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity

One hundred years later, the Negro is still languished in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land

It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution

Yet, with all this scope of precedent, I now enter upon the same task for the brief Constitutional term of four years under great and peculiar difficulty

While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention, and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago

Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether."

Values have shrunk to fantastic levels; taxes have risen; our ability to pay has fallen; government of all kinds is faced by serious curtailment of income; the means of exchange are frozen in the currents of trade; the withered leaves of industrial enterprise lie on every side; farmers find no markets for their produce; and the savings of many years in thousands of families are gone

I too, have seen exciting things in my thirty years of work.

He seemed about forty years old and he was very well dressed

Annie Chapman - or Dark Annie to her friends - was 47 years old

He was 1.70m tall, about 28 years old, and wore a deerstalker hat and dark clothes.

Mary Jane Kelly was twenty-five years old

During the years since the murders the number of suspects has increased.

In the case of Elizabeth Stride, from the descriptions by Constable Smith and Israel Schwartz we have a man between 28 - 30 years old, 1.65m to 1.70m tall, wearing dark clothes and a hat with a peak, or perhaps a deerstalker

What is the most probable picture of the murderer? He was a short man, not more than 1.68m, between 28-35 years old, with a light brown moustache

He was 28 years old and living in London at the time of the murders

In fact, Hutchinson had known Mary about three years, so he certainly knew that she had her own room

'I've slept for nineteen years on a piece of wood

The Bishop of Digne was a kind old man who, many years earlier, had given his palace to the town hospital

'I've been in prison for nineteen years

'I've spent five years in prison for violent robbery, another fourteen years for trying to escape four times

He had woken because the bed was too comfortable; he had not slept in a proper bed for twenty years

Unable to return to sleep, he gazed into the darkness, thinking about the past twenty years

Now, at last, he was free, but he felt bitter and angry about his lost years

But now, for the first time in twenty years, a man had shown him great kindness, and he did not know what to feel.

A boy of about ten years old was coming along a footpath with a small box on his back and dirty knees showing through holes in his trousers

Then, his heart full of grief for what he had done, he buried his face in his hands and, for the first time in nineteen years, he cried.

Madeleine, and was sure that he had seen him somewhere before, many years earlier

Now, years later, M

He was a prisoner I saw twenty years ago, when I worked at a prison in Toulon

He'd changed his name to Champmathieu and had lived for several years in the village of Ailly-le-Haut-Cloche

If he's found guilty of stealing from the bishop - who, as you know, died a couple of years ago - and of robbing the small boy, he'll spend the rest of his life in prison.'

While guests and visitors ate and drank noisily, Cosette - now eight years old - sat in her usual place under the kitchen table

For twenty-five years he had been alone in the world

For many years, Marius believed this, but when he was seventeen years old, he learnt the truth

For the next three years, Marius lived in a small room in an old, damp-walled building on the outskirts of Paris - the same room that Valjean and Cosette had lived in eight years earlier

Marius had lived for five years without much money, but he had never been really poor

It's been eight years, but I recognized him at once.'

'Do you remember the little inn in Montfermeil eight years ago? You took away our Cosette, do you remember? Wearing that old yellow coat, pretending you were a tramp! Well, now you're going to learn that you can't make things right by just bringing a few hospital blankets! You're the cause of all my troubles

Gillenormand, Marius's grandfather, was now ninety years old

He was unhappy about many things - about losing his teeth, about the political situation but, most of all, about the fact that he had not seen his grandson for four years, since their big quarrel

At last! After four years! Was it really him? He wanted to open his arms and hug him, but all he said was, 'What have you come for?'

Twenty-one years old, no job, no money

He then turned slowly to the old man, bowed deeply and said, 'Four years ago you insulted my father

He had suffered terribly over the years and, until now, he had survived every disaster

He remembered the little girl he had rescued from the Thenardiers ten years earlier, and felt sad that he was no longer the most important man in her life

That he was Jean Valjean, a criminal who had spent nineteen years in prison and who had stolen silver candlesticks from a trusting and kind-hearted bishop

'Did you know that he spent nineteen years in prison?'

"Please be seated!" says the judge, a woman of about forty years of age with a serious face and tone

How long ago was his last visit to this cold stone building? More than twenty years? Well, that is not important at the moment

I believe Father O'Connor passed away nearly ten years ago."

I stole it more than eight years ago, from a bank security van

In a few years they will be politicians, judges or doctors

Owen is tall and fair with blue eyes and a healthy complexion from years of work and activity outside.

For the first time in many years Owen and Junior seem to be exactly what they are: father and son

Then maybe in a few years they can start to go for a pint like Owen and his father did.

It is 2088, thirty years since the end of the ten-year Oil Wars.

"I think they're saying two years, at least," said Palo.

It had taken years for Gran to make her garden because it was so difficult to find soil or plants, but she had made some soil with rotten vegetables and fruit, and slowly found bits and pieces here and there

thirty years

"Is this the Pod Life that Ding was talking about? The one where you live in a pod for two years?" Cham looked uncomfortable

"You're thinking of leaving me for two whole years and you can't see the problem?"

"Two years!"

"And two years of your life is a high price to pay."

"In a few years, everyone will be doing it

"So what? It was an hour, not two years."

He hadn't done anything else for years

"The only thing I can ask is this: if I do Pod Life without you, will you still be here for me when I come out? Can you wait two years?"

This was how it would be, for two whole years..

I've been trying to send a message for many years, but nothing has crossed the boundary successfully

Then Cham would be torn away from her for two long years.

"Well, he can't leave the pod for two years, can he?" Wena's eyes were calm, but hard, too

I'll still love you in two years

"After all these years..

"Oh, yes, don't mind me." But Gran was rubbing her back, where she'd been injured years ago

Two years are going to fly past

he said he might want to stay in the pod, after the two years," she said

After two years, he'll be dying to see you and the real world again!"

Yes, I have been here before, many years ago.'

Those years seemed to stretch between us

She's been housekeeper here for years

'I suppose you have been at Manderley for many years,' I said.

It is what he has done every evening for years.

I met him once, years ago.'

'The picture is about two hundred years old

'When she was only twelve years old, the men could not stop looking at her

I can't tell you about those terrible years with Rebecca

She knew her for years,' Favell said, with his unpleasant smile.

Closing her eyes now, chewing the toast, Tina could still see him - three years old, peanut butter smeared all over his lips and chin - as he grinned and said, More neenut putter toast, please.

During the twelve years of their marriage, Tina had become a different and more complex person than she'd been on their wedding day, but Michael hadn't changed at all - and didn't like the woman that she had become

In other years that date had meant nothing special

For fifteen years, ever since she turned eighteen, two years before she married Michael, Tina Evans had lived and worked in Las Vegas

Tina enjoyed dancing in the Lido, and she stayed there for two and a half years, until she learned that she was pregnant

Five years ago, however, on her twenty-eighth birthday, she began to realize that she had, if she was lucky, ten years left as a show dancer, and she decided to establish herself in the business in another capacity, to avoid being washed up at thirty-eight

If Magyck! Was a hit and packed the showroom for four or five years, as sometimes happened with successful Vegas shows, she'd be a multimillionaire by the end of the run

It was so huge that a DC-9 airliner could be rolled onto it without using half the space available - a feat that had been accomplished as part of a production number on a similar stage at a hotel in Reno several years ago

At forty-six, he was the most successful producer in Las Vegas, with twenty years of hit shows behind him

Sinatra was in town, at Caesar's Palace, perhaps for the last time, and even at eighty years of age, he generated more excitement in Vegas than any other famous name

Jaborski, the scoutmaster, had taken other groups of scouts on winter survival hikes every year for sixteen years, and no one had been even slightly injured

Joel Bandiri was with Eva, his wife of eight years, and two of their friends

Eva was twenty-nine, seventeen years younger than Joel, and at five foot eight, she was also four inches taller than he was

She was tall, slender, striking, fifty-five years old but able to pass for a well-preserved forty.

At least a year and a half, maybe two years, had passed since a man had looked at her in quite that fashion

She'd been cleaning for Tina Evans for two years, and she had been entrusted with a key nearly that long.

For five years, ever since her sixty-fifth birthday, they had been pressuring her to live with them

Besides, for the past twenty-one years, ever since her Harry died, she had always taken care of herself

In this one, he was ten or eleven years old, a sweet brown-haired boy with dark eyes and a lovely smile.

No woman had affected him so strongly since Nancy, his wife, who had died three years ago.

At least it wasn't like the Michael Evans she had known for the past couple of years

"For years people go home from Vegas and tell all their friends that they came out ahead of the game

After all, she'd lived with him for a long time, through years of happiness and years of misery, and she'd come to know the limits of his talent for deception and duplicity

But there at first, for a good many years, we had a great thing going

He was happy being a blackjack dealer; his salary and his good tips were enough for him, and he was content to coast through the years

It was good for us once, those early years

For years, she had been filled with hurt and bitterness

After all these years, it's finally your turn to listen

Every winter for sixteen years, he had taken a group of scouts to northern Nevada, beyond Reno, into the High Sierras, on a seven-day wilderness survival excursion.

All those years they'd taken kids into the mountains, nobody was even scratched."

He was so good that he could safely take young boys into the Sierras for sixteen years, a challenge a lot of other winter survival experts wouldn't touch

"Five years ago

"She passed away three years ago."

"Twelve years."

"Twelve years leaves a big hole in the heart."

You had Danny for nearly twelve years."

With you, it's been three years

Maybe it will after four years

Owen West and I opened for business in a cheap storefront office twelve years ago, right at the start of the biggest boom this town has ever seen

She hadn't been to bed with any man but Michael in the past fourteen years, since she was nineteen

She hadn't been to bed with anyone at all for almost two years

Suddenly it seemed to her that she had done a mad, stupid thing when she'd hidden away like a nun for two years

Of course, during the first of those two years, she'd still been married to Michael and had felt compelled to remain faithful to him, even though a separation and then a divorce had been in the works, and even though he had not felt constrained by any similar moral sense

He'd had other women in this bed during the past two years, and a few had stayed the night, but not one of those other lovers had made him feel content merely by the fact of her presence, as Tina did

On hot summer days, these barren, sandy slopes seemed godforsaken, and they would not be made lush and green for another ten years at least

It had been published only two years ago, long after she had decided that horror comics were harmless.

A long time had passed since his years in military intelligence, since the nights of fear in the Persian Gulf and in countless cities scattered around the Mideast and Asia

He was deeply involved in that world for thirty years

After he retired about ten years ago, he was still a young man, fifty-three, and he needed something else to occupy his time

"Remember maybe ten years ago when that Texas elections official revealed how Lyndon Johnson's first local election was fixed? The guy said he was just trying to clear his conscience after all those years

"First of all," Elliot said, "before he went into the mountains with Jaborski, in all the years you knew him and lived in the same house with him, did Danny ever show any signs of being psychic?"

He was eight or nine years old, and he was curious about the details of a dealer's job

One day, about two years ago, I was in the kitchen, making an apple pie, and Danny came in to tell me Elmer wasn't anywhere to be found in the yard

And even if those were examples of psychic ability, little tricks like that are light-years from what you're attributing to Danny now."

After all, the last couple of years we were married, Michael was running around with a lot of other women, spending most of his time away from home, and Danny felt even more abandoned than I did

Kennebeck had known Alexander for five years and had despised him from the day they met

Alexander, on the other hand, was the scion of a Pennsylvania family that had been wealthy and powerful for a hundred and fifty years, perhaps longer

"He's been a civilian for fifteen years

He lived here for eight or nine years before he decided to apply for citizenship

It's just that for more than fifteen years, I've led a very ordinary life, a workaday life

"But now that you're in real danger again for the first time in years, a part of you is responding to the challenge

He considered the requisitioning of this executive jet to be one of his most important accomplishments in the three years that he had been chief of the Nevada bureau of the Network

George, on the other hand, hadn't filled a post of genuine stature and authority until six years ago, when he was thirty-six

Then, six years ago, the Network had been formed, and the President had given George the task of developing a reliable South American bureau of the new intelligence agency

After three years the President had declared himself delighted with the accomplishments in South America, and he had asked George to take charge of one of the Network's domestic bureaus - Nevada - which had been terribly mismanaged

If he failed to stop Stryker and the Evans woman, his dream of assuming the director's chair in a few years would never become a reality.

It was unpaved, but a solid bed had been built over the years by the generous and repeated application of oil and gravel.

Although The Eyes of Darkness does not have the intensity, the humor, the depth of characterization, the complexity of theme, or the pace of later novels, readers have responded positively to it over the years, most likely because the device of a lost child - and the dedicated mother who will do anything to find out what happened to her little boy - strikes a primal chord in all of us.

We won the arbitration, and the writer has not, in the intervening twenty-odd years, become a famous director or, as far as I know, a director of any status.

'But I've tried to forget, and I've lived alone in that house for nearly three years now

He was six years old.

She is twenty years younger than I am, very pretty, and unable to take anything seriously.

Do you know, for years I believed she was dead

Mary has been with him for two years.'

There was a pause before she said, 'I had not seen him for several years.'

Then, years later, she hears that he is living in this village, so comes down here and tries it again

"After all these years" - that's what he said - "you dare to come here -" Then he said, "I refuse

But that was twenty years ago

It felt as though years had passed when I heard the door open and Melchett entered the room

In the last years of the nineteenth century, no one believed that this world was being watched closely by intelligences greater than our own

The attack came six years ago

However, for most of the time the daily routine of work, food, drink and sleep went on as it had done for countless years.

The church! We rebuilt it only three years ago

'There won't be anything important for a million years or more - no music, no art and no nice little visits to restaurants

The ones the Martians capture will be like farm animals; in a few years they'll be big, beautiful, stupid - rubbish

Why was I walking alone in this city of the dead? I thought of old friends that I had forgotten for years

These germs of disease have killed people and animals since the beginning of time, but over these many years we have developed the ability to fight against them

Even if that is true, for many years we will continue to watch Mars carefully, and all falling stars will make us afraid.

'I have been married for three years, and my wife and I were very happy until last Monday

'Effie, my wife was a young widow only twenty-five years old, when I met her

After three years of marriage, she feels safe again, but her first husband, or some unscrupulous woman attached to him, discovers where she lives

I kept her existence a secret from you for three years, but finally I had to see my little girl

'I've drunk river water for the past fifteen years.'

Some of the work in my office has been there for years

'Hei Mercy.' And the door opened to show the face of Connie, her big sister, six years older, and now heavy with her second child

'I like a quiet life, and recently I had such an adventure that I don't want another one for years.' As we ate breakfast side by side like two old friends, I told Miss Halcombe about the woman in white

He is a charming man of about forty-five years old

He told us that Mrs Catherick, Anne's mother, had been a servant in his family for many years before leaving to get married

The Count has been Sir Percival's friend for years

'Please can I see the register of marriages in this church for the years just before 1804?' I asked.

The copy had no record of Percival's father's marriage! I realised that the record in the original register must be a forgery, added in years afterwards

Twenty-three years ago, Sir P admired me

'If the police find out, they'll put you in prison for years!'

How I hated him! He forced me to stay here in this village, where they all talked about me but no one spoke to me! Finally, now, after all these years, I have earned their respect

I also knew that the Count had left Italy many years ago

I haven't changed much over the years, but perhaps this man has

Mary was writing about women and the vote a hundred years before women started fighting for it

In the next few years, Malala met with girls around the world, and she met with many politicians, like the President of the USA, Barack Obama

She was only seventeen years old, and she was the youngest person ever to win it.

When she was twelve years old, she was working in the fields

For years, Shirin Ebadi fought to work in law

She was very intelligent and could read when she was three years old.

When she came back five years later, at twenty years old, she could speak good French and knew how to cook, but she also knew chemistry.

In 1918, women over thirty got the vote after many years of fighting

I thank God that I am living it." She fought for that day for more than ten years.

Women have made a lot of progress in the last 100 years

Women in northern Europe and in places like the United Kingdom, the USA and Australia were all fighting for the vote in the last years of the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century.

In 1929, when she was twenty-one years old, she met Jean-Paul Sartre, the philosopher

They were together for fifty-one years, until he died in 1980

Ten years after her book was published, more than half of the workers in the West were women

She has worked for the BBC for thirty years

There have been women in science for many hundreds of years

We know that, in many countries, women started to get the vote in the first years of the 20th century

Two years later, Nancy moved to England with her son and her sister Phyllis

Nancy wanted women of twenty-one years old to vote

This was 100 years after some women first got the vote and almost a hundred years after Nancy Astor entered Parliament.

In 2017, Jacinda Ardern became the prime minister of New Zealand when she was thirty-seven years old

Just five years later, in 1908, women pilots started flying

Ten years later, she went with a friend to watch some pilots flying aeroplanes

Amelia achieved a lot in the next few years

She was thirty years old and had two children

But in 1948 she was thirty years old, and many people thought that she was too old to be the best

When Billie Jean King was twelve years old, she decided that she wanted to fight for equal rights for girls and women

When she was twelve years old, she played at a tournament at the Los Angeles Tennis Club, but Billie Jean could not be in the group picture of young tennis players

She was number one for five years in total (1967- 1968, 1971-1972 and 1974).

For example, 32 percent of girls in Zimbabwe get married before they are eighteen years old

Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi were two young women from Zimbabwe who were married to men when they were sixteen years old

In 2018, a very famous man in American TV, Bill Cosby, was convicted of sexual assault and was sent to prison for three to ten years.

"I am almost 25 years old

"Lolita is 18 years old and she is very beautiful," answers Don Carlos.

I am 23 years old and I am the Captain of the Presidio