Years Sentence Examples

She was two years younger then.

I spent enough time out here a few years ago.

Seven years had passed.

It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.

It is only really about twenty years old.

He's been doing it for many years.

It seems like years since I saw you last.

I'm going-- " "He's gone weak after all these years at battle and lost sight of winning back our planet!

But it took a good many years for them to grow as large and fine as they are now.

I was so busy following the road map I made so many years ago that I didn't notice it was outdated.

He watched for quite a while, until the model reached a level that had taken him years of apprenticeship under his father to achieve.

Every few years, he had to move anyway; they all did, for security reasons.

It's been ten years since I first told you this.

Deidre looked around, struck by how different the place she lived for two years felt.

For the first time in years, he found himself wondering what it would be like to feel again.

She was fully a part of him when they touched, as if he'd been missing more than a piece of his soul all these years and just now realized it.

She'd spent the past four hundred years in college, gleefully learning more and more and working out of the lab he'd funded for her.

I'll update your address list virtually over the next few years.

Dusty didn't know if a few months of Darian having his own mind back were enough to erase thousands of years under the control of another.

Speck shifted away from him, a response Dusty was accustomed to after thousands of years as Damian's lead executioner.

We've never been able to transform a vamp into a human in thousands of years.

With a frown, she wondered why she'd never seen it before, why she wasted seven years trying to make things work with someone who couldn't hold a candle to the man she was meant to be with.

Not sure how, when you've been nagging me for thousands of years.

I've been expecting you for years.

He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.

The manor house had been built several hundred years ago, and every room but hers was a reflection of her father's wealth.

After a childhood filled with foster homes, she feared getting too comfortable, even in the home of the man who adopted her twelve years ago, when she was ten.

You remember what I've taught you all these years?

It was one of the many oddities about her father that she'd accepted over the years.

I did for many, many years.

I'd known him for a few years, even if it was only in passing.

What she knew was that her father and his lies had skewed her outlook on her world for ten years.

Darian didn't remember it any more than he remembered much of the thousands of years he spend enslaved by Jonny's predecessor.

She hadn't cried in years, unless it was out of pain from a particularly bad beating.

Jake wiped his mouth the way he did when he'd admitted to cheating on her four years ago.

He's been my friend for almost t…ten years.

Maybe in a few thousand years, after he'd killed every Other and Watcher he could get his hands on and found some way to numb his pain.

The same woman who would die in twenty-three years from ovarian cancer.

He recognized the procedure but hadn't heard of it being used since before his brother, Darian, had died thousands of years ago.

To the three of them, the drastic changes that occurred over such a short time span after thousands of years of no change were a warning sign.

They'd had a falling out a few hundred years before and hadn't spoken since.

You'd think after oh, a few thousand years, you'd remember, Jule.

I passed that mark a few hundred thousand years ago.

Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.

Impressive. Haven't seen one in a few thousand years.

There was a reason he banned thoughts of Darian and Claire from his mind, an instinct he'd never been able to face in all the years since Darian's death.

This would be the first year he'd gone into the negative in a thousand of years.

Thousands of years hadn't given him much insight into a woman's way of thinking, but this he knew without a doubt.

He touched her face, exhausted for the first time in years.

She took the hint but wondered who had hurt him so badly that he still bore a grudge thousands of years later.

My love, we've been destined for each other since I wed your brother thousands of years ago.

Our European front has been growing progressively weaker the past hundred years.

Long-buried rage was bubbling upward, along with the tiny instinct he'd squashed thousands of years ago.

Claire's been on the European front for a hundred years.

The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.

He'd not had to work too hard for confessions in the past thousand years, not after word of his cold, methodological skills leaked to the Guardians.

Their war, it's been going on for thousands of years.

He's been after bad guys for thousands of years, and he's never gone to the Dark Side or quit or anything.

Even after thousands of years he was reliving the pain of his brother's death.

Just when I start to like you … you know, it's amazing even a man who's thousands of years old can act like a twelve-year-old.

It was something normal people did during this time of year, something she'd done every year for twenty-three years.

That's the number of Guardians you've killed directly with your actions over the past few thousand years.

You've had tens of thousands of years to get rid of me.

I've been spying on the thoughts of humanity for thousands of years.

It's taken thousands of years, but I'm glad you finally showed up.

The energy around them was lively; they were brothers whose bond was formed during their years in the bowels of hell.

He'd tucked away the necklace thousands of years ago after finding it among the pieces of his brother's body.

With Claire's death, he'd avenged his brother and righted the wrong made thousands of years ago.

You can't fix a war that's been on for hundreds of thousands of years.

The man hiding in the corner of her mind, he whose death plagued Damian for thousands of years.

You were born two years apart.

Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.

His world was one of confusion, his memories overwhelming as the dam that had been in place for thousands of years crumbled.

Darkyn has been spinning out of control for many years.

The Immortal who posed as her only friend and surgeon for years – who also nearly killed her – stood before her.

How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?

What if the silly, innocent, clueless little girl you spent years lying to actually had something that you need to leave here?

The knowledge made her want to scream, knowing she'd spent years blindly letting him talk to her like this and encourage her with pretty words, while he ensured the tumor in her head killed her.

Oh, to have had this instinct years ago, when she met Wynn!

The demons remaining were all young and loyal, trained by him over the years.

She waited thousands of years and worked with both Dark Ones to make it happen.

I guess what made the biggest impression was watching you and her over the course of thousands of years.

There are a few creatures I've collected over the years that interest me.

You are looking well, Zamon, for being a million years old.

But you sent him into the middle of Hell for thousands of years.

Forty years old and having a baby!

He was the most talented player the small Ouray school had produced in years.

It had been the mildest late winter in years and the lack of high country snow had opened the Jeep roads weeks earlier than usual.

It was as if rescuing these long forgotten remains from oblivion would somehow prove such a resurrection from years of absolute dark and loneliness would make anything possible.

I rented a room from his mother for years when I'd visit out here summers.

I haven't put up with you for fifteen years not to know when you're worried.

Yeah. There's things that happened a hundred years ago and are best left be.

I might have pulled your leg a time or two, but we've got along pretty good over the years keeping stuff to ourselves.

That was years ago!

It's been like that since—God, junior high school—six, seven years!

At least Randy and Jen had years of history together, most of their education behind them, and what would ultimately prove to be supportive parents.

God love him—he had followed the Boston Red Sox for sixty years and couldn't even dream of ever being there himself.

That's what they've been doing for the past three years.

He bought the land in chunks over the years.

The land went to his wife but then she died a few years later.

I looked up the ownership but the records were nearly fifty years old.

They smell like they spent years on the ground.

According to Martha, no one has been near that mine in years.

He owned it for years.

It will take years for them to come back to life at this elevation.

The winter had been exceptionally clear of late snow and the high mountain passes that in many years remained closed until July had been cleared weeks earlier this spring.

Bumpin' Bertha here doesn't make very good time but she's been getting the job done for a lot of years.

I drove the trip for fifteen years, when I started coming back to Ouray again.

After Ralph died in 1980, I remembered our good times in Colorado forty years before when we were kids, and I started coming back.

I've been visiting the San Juans every summer now for the last twenty years.

It looks like a hole in the ground that hasn't been touched in thirty years or more.

Whatever happened occurred forty years ago.

Dean considered a further prompt, but a dozen years of dealing with attorneys taught him it would be both unsuccessful and unwise.

At least he was, years ago, and he's moved back here.

Seems it's been rented for years.

Cancer. She died thirteen years ago.

I don't give a damn about what might have happened years ago!

No one found the remains for forty years!

Switching the bones and killing him in the first place are two different acts—forty years apart.

Let's say the mine was closed up for years and only recently broken into.

That young man has been in the water fight for years.

That's over fifty years ago!

No, the water fight goes back years and years.

I couldn't find nothing on Josh without a last name, but Ed Plotke was in the phone book for six years between 1956 and 1962.

The bones are probably forty years old.

He'd only been here once, years before, but he told me he owned land and one day he'd settle in the town.

I went off to college and messed around some—did all the stuff you're supposed to do at that age—but when I came back home ten years later, Paul's wife had died.

When we married, I was twenty-eight and he was fifty-two—nearly twice my age—two years older than my father!

We couldn't have been happier, and it never changed for a moment for the whole twelve years before he died.

But that doesn't mean we didn't love each other or have a super twelve years together.

They became great friends over the years.

If your bones belong to someone who impregnated a young girl years ago, why do you care now?

What are the odds of her meeting this guy and being the daughter of his mine manager from twenty years earlier and a thousand miles away?

Besides, if you buy her story of years of happy marriage, it doesn't point to any untoward reason for Dawkins to seek her out before meeting her.

It was a young man's—or woman's—game, although Dean doubted he'd have joined the contest, at least not willingly, even in his careless years.

They'd been in the mine for forty years.

They crossed Canyon Creek and the site of an avalanche a few years earlier, now evidenced by the rubble of broken, twisted trees and displaced earth.

Then she asked, Why do you say the bones are forty years old?

The Lucky Pup has apparently been sealed up for the last forty years until someone—kids, we think—broke into the mine this spring.

It wasn't a new sight—he'd spent far too many years as a police officer not to have seen it, uncounted but never forgotten times.

God, that was nearly ten years ago!

If anyone would know happenings forty years ago, those guys would.

I did you the favor of running your prints years ago.

Fitzgerald listed a college degree, birth in Ouray, and nineteen years in law enforcement, the last eleven in administrative duty.

Dean "attended" college, served in the military, and was employed by the Parkside, Pennsylvania Police Department for fifteen years.

He highlighted some of the teenage antidrug and alcohol programs he'd worked with over the years.

I haven't been up that way in years.

That's been a dry hole for sixty years, Roger said.

He was around Ouray for ten years or so.

They were only here four or five years in the late fifties, Charlie said.

He did the math—married seven years, divorced ten years— depending on her age when she married, she might be a young-looking forty.

Mr. Westlake never married and taught high school history for thirty years.

Ralph's been dead for years and a son runs the business now.

Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.

I had a brother Bobbie, ten years older than me.

I thought she had years to go.

A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.

Dean had run Fred's prints, but as Fred pointed out, it had been many years ago.

He knew who I was when we first talked at the basketball game, but it was years later he told me about it.

He couldn't hold a candle to my real father—the one who was there for me all those years.

If they don't belong to Josh Mulligan, they could be years older than the 1960's.

You could probably fix a date within a few years at least.

Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old.

Even his many years absence from visiting Ouray no longer eliminated him as a suspect now that the age of the bones was uncertain.

He knew without Martha's map he'd never remember the various turns he and Cynthia had taken to where the skeleton had reposed for over fifty years.

It was over fifty years later.

You've been coming to Ouray for twenty years.

You could have done something about the skeleton years before now.

The mine was sealed up for years.

The trunks had been there for two years with no one touching them.

Aunt Helen died a few years later.

Why go back into the mine after all these years and take the chance of swapping the bones and getting caught?

Brandon's feelings about the event were intense, even after all those years.

She recalled nothing beyond her human age of twenty-six years.

He didn't answer to her anymore, as he had for thousands of years.

After all their years together, he didn't trust that she would do what she had to in order for them to be together.

Not many people thought differently of the first Ancient Immortal, who had led the Council with six of his sons for many years before being killed.

I only have twenty-six years' worth of memories, thanks to Darkyn.

That he understood now how he needed to break rules from time-to-time to preserve his domain was gratifying after years of him judging her for it.

Except I can't remember anything beyond my twenty-six years.

The human I created twenty six years ago.

I waited tens of thousands of years for one of us to have the mating tattoo appear.

It had been where Wynn, the father of all the Immortals on the Council, had lain for hundreds of years before being dragged out by Sasha, the son who betrayed them all to Darkyn.

Gabriel squinted, unaccustomed to so much light after all his years in the underworld.

She hated not being able to read his mind and see his thoughts, the way she had for the thousands of years they served the underworld together.

But she remembered everything from the past twenty-six years.

He'd been the one to deliver his friend to Hell many years ago.

This is the first time we've had an honest discussion in about a million years.

The human lived here for a few years with a boyfriend that one of Darkyn's demons killed.

Gabriel was reminded of the many times he'd expressed something human to the goddess he'd loved for thousands of years.

He couldn't help feeling angry with the goddess who set this all up or escape the emotion he felt knowing his mate was the woman he'd loved for thousands of years.

She did remember bringing him back from the dead ten years before in order to help her with her plan and how cold he'd been to her then.

Whatever it was, I apologize for hurting you so much that you bore a grudge for thousands of years.

Our path won't be easy, but we didn't spend thousands of years trying to be together not to take the chance we have now.

He wasn't about to lose her or the chance to build a life with the woman he'd loved for tens of thousands of years.

Destiny would be two years old before long.

Maybe it was the years he spent as a salesman.

He could search years and never find a woman like you.

He was probably thinking years ahead and wanted Carmen to handle it in event of his death.

They had been happily married for twenty years.

On the other hand, Joan and Sean had been married almost thirty years and they got along well.

Brenda had been handling all Alex's investments for years, so Carmen left that part to her.

She had been taking care of everything to do with their homes for the last few years, so that was familiar territory.

Mums was her first choice because of confidentiality issues, but there probably wasn't much romance at her age and after so many years of marriage.

He's put up with my attitude for a lot of years.

At twenty-six years old, she must've done something pretty bad in a past life to deserve this.

He'd stuck by her for over three years, though.

She'd been on the verge of death for years.

You've lived on your terms the past few years.

He hadn't expected anything different when he met the reincarnated Deidre a few years ago and started down this path.

He'd given it to her hundreds of years ago.

He doubted his night – or his next few thousand years – was going to get any better than this.

Something about him made her feel comfortable, or she wouldn't be sitting alone with a man dressed like the angel of death on the beach after dark, revealing secrets she didn't tell her boyfriend of two years.

Mid-morning sun warmed Gabriel's face, drawing him out of the deepest slumber he'd experienced in years.

Thousands of years of repressed fury bubbled within him.

His cabin was tiny, two rooms, with the walls lined with weapons he'd collected over the years.

Thousands of years of love-hate memories left him conflicted.

Gabriel knew the secrets of all seven from interacting with them over the years.

This compass is only a few thousand years old.

I spent thousands of years and broke the Code twice.

Sensitive to the light after years in the underworld, his head felt like it was going to explode.

This was the doctor who stuck by her for years after her diagnosis.

You're pretty much all that held me together over the years.

You extended my life over three years after the others said I had a few months.

Living for three years after a diagnosis of dying in a month weird?

I've seen a lot during my years as a doctor.

After all we've been through together the past few years, you should've been an open book.

You have flirted with Death for three years now.

She didn't want that to be true of Wynn, who had helped her for years.

I figured it out when I rediscovered her in the human world a few years ago.

Very honorable of you to give her a choice of being with you after how she treated you all those years.

Instead of a slow, fifty year death, it'll be three years.

All he had to do was sell one of the original pieces of artwork displayed casually in the marble foyer and he'd be fine for years.

Deidre, you were Death for let's say, a zillion years.

You took his heart and crushed it, like every day for thousands of years.

That she was a deity, Death, who lived for thousands of years … None of that made sense.

He's loved you for like, a million years.

More sense than the idea she was a deity for thousands of years.

I am the same friend you've had the past few years.

He's helped me through a lot over the past few years.

I'm an Immortal, and Gabriel has moved on after thousands of years at your feet.

I've eliminated innumerable enemies of yours the past few years.

He made her feel like she wasn't alone for the first time in years.

The small woman was one Gabe had known for years.

Based on her medical records, the tumor didn't grow until she hit puberty and didn't interfere with her ability to function before a few years ago, Wynn started.

A few years ago, I could have.

Deidre bought the lights she'd wanted for years.

If I knew three years ago, I might not have trusted Wynn.

He'd been fevered for a zillion years, trapped in the tiny cell in ever-changing forms, always in darkness.

For the first time in years, he felt whole again.

She'd lived there for four years --almost as long as the kid had been alive.

Your amnesia is trauma induced from the rape you survived six years ago.

Kris's features clouded, and Gabriel suspected it was because Kris had been with his current lover, Jade, for hundreds of years.

You get a new one every eighty years or something?

I see him every few dozen years, usually when he's coming to kill my mama.

And you randomly assign him new moms every few dozen years and then send Gabriel to pick them off at the end.

His gaze settled on Jade's familiar features, and he studied his companion of so many years.

If it's hereditary, then the mutation has been hidden from us for, like, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.

Worse, they'd never run across this type of issue in all their years.

One of my most expensive shirts with the pants that went out of season five years ago.

It's been calm for the past few hundred years, but I don't think any of us have forgotten that five hundred year period where we were at each other's throats.

His lover of many years sensed his unease and waited for him to speak.

Images of Kris, his only love in two thousand years, swam through his thoughts.

We've been through for hundreds of years.

He faced Sasha, recalling the years they'd spent together.

She'd last dressed up for Hannah's engagement party two years ago.

Angels are mortals' allies, but they can't appreciate the intricacies of mortals without the years of exposure.

In all his years, he'd never seen anything like her.

For the first time in years, he doubted himself.

He's been in Hell for hundreds of thousands of years.

Who spent the last million years in Hell, thanks to Kris.

They've been working for millions of years to get around this one; they're quite crafty at it.

I haven't lived for millions of years in your world, but I believe Rhyn here would have to die permanently so his claim on me was nullified.

She'd been trying for years to have his voluntary service revoked.

In four hundred thousand years, he hadn't learned to answer a phone right?

Thought you'd learned something after all those years in Hell.

I left many years ago and haven't gone back.

Rhyn faced the sarcophagus, surprised to see his father looked as he had when he last saw him thousands of years before.

In all the years he.d served her, she.d never owned him until three weeks ago.

Rhyn had become like a brother to him, and the idea of killing his mate reopened wounds that hadn.t bled since he stood in this place thousands of years before.

I can probably get close with a few years of research, but not in two months.

He knew Jared well enough after all their years in Hell together to understand the creature was too narcissistic to care about another.s issues.

He was hundreds of thousands of mortal years old, but less than half a dozen in angel years.

Katie was born about seven years after me.

As Kris.s confidante of several hundred years, he knew most of the Immortal.s secrets.

It.s the way things have been for millions of years!

They mature slowest of all Immortals, but when they hit certain points in angel years, they jump to the next human stage of maturity, Helga said.

He would.ve been content to stay in his cottage for another hundred years or never again visit the mortal world.

With a sinking heart, he realized he.d lost the Jade who.d been his friend and lover for a few hundred years.

In all his years in Hell, he.d never known this kind of pain.

Kiera managed a hurt tone and rolled on her side to frown at her blurry best friend of fifteen years.

I never pressed him about it in the fifteen years we roomed together.

All I know he hasn't skied in the fifteen years I've known him.

It was five years ago with a lithe red head named Ellen for a Vermont weekend.

He hasn't seen us in years.

Edith's managed to slip out and meet me a half dozen times over the years, but that's it.

Maybe I sound like a jerk, but it's been ten years since we were an item and I've got a life now.

Telluride's sixty-six trails, spread over more than a thousand acres, were an awesome change from the crowded slopes Dean had skied in the East in years gone by.

I just strolled around town, trying to imagine Annie doing the same thing, a hundred years ago.

A hundred years ago, Edith might have joined Annie, smiling her nights away at the Red Hat Saloon.

Two women couldn't room together for fifteen years and, in some ways, remain virtual strangers.

Fred married my mother years after dad passed away.

All you have to do is find out what property 'Mrs. Cummings' owned a hundred years ago.

There was a biography on him from some local storage shed association that made him some kind of muck a muck a few years back.

In years long gone it was the rail bed for the line that ran to terminus in Ouray and now a favorite path for bikers.

Then I looked up the Pinkville newspaper but it was merged into a countywide paper four years ago.

He lay back and closed his eyes, trying to picture the sad death, the end of the sad life of a woman, now resurrected to importance after a hundred years of total obscurity.

You couldn't be a cop for fourteen years and not look death in the face and recognize its gruesome glare.

I was a cop for a lot of years.

Dean thought back to the fifteen years the two of them had shared similar meals and chores, with each sure he was doing more work than the other.

The building stood there, gazing down on the quiet town like some magnificent matron, watching over her citizens as she had for a hundred years.

Lord knows what he did to Donnie over the years to cause the boy to despise him so.

They were both now forty years old.

Shipton had used a gnarled cedar, years dead, as an anchor for his line.

Besides, Edith had the pen in her possession so he lacked any opportunity to change it back to the color she used years earlier when she wrote the suicide note.

Couldn't the CBI guys over in their Denver lab tell the suicide note was written years before?

But Ryland's personal knowledge of her was limited to a couple rolls in the hay a dozen years ago.

The two stayed together through the years, even attempting to be lovers once, though they quickly realized theirs was a relationship of brother and sister.

The couple had recently moved back to Fairhaven, in rural New England, after years away.