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Sentences starting with years

Years ago he would have made a speech at it! [11]
Years ago, just when the cotton-mills and the linen- mills were doing well, they came over with their English legislation, and made it hard going. [11]
Years of indignation were at work in her. [11]
Years passed; she was nearing womanhood, the young man was still her friend, but in his mind there had come something deeper. [11]
Years ago, people used to saunter over the Atlantic, and spend weeks in filling journals with their monotonous emotions. [4]
Years of trial unknown to me had left an ennobling mark upon her features, increasing their power an hundred fold. [9]
Years more--in all, twelve--and then I came back with the little chart for one thing, this to do for another. [11]
Years are terrible things, an' for years you've been bound. [13]
Years had deepened the power of face and form. [11]
Years and years the little woman had gone on with her work, and she frankly confessed to Edith, one day when they were together going her rounds, that she could see no result from it all. [4]

Sentences ending with years

Both are as zealously fostered in Keilhau now as in former years. [10]
He did a young man's share of the work; and did his share of conversing and entertaining from the general stand-point of any age--not from the arrogant, overawing summit-height of sixty years. [5]
I know that you, you alone, kept him prisoner here five long years. [11]
I said that you would leave England within twenty-four hours, and that you would not return within three years. [11]
I never touched you in all the years. [11]
I have watched you for two years. [11]
I should know you for a philosopher, without such persistent silence; and as for myself, I am not altogether bereft of curiosity, in spite of my eighty years. [10]
Hain't I carried you faithful, summer and winter, for a good many years? [9]
It is 37 years. [5]
I stood it years. [5]

Short sentences using years

Seventy-four years old yesterday. [5]
For ten thousand years. [5]
Consider the three years sped. [5]
They looked many years older. [11]
He looks ten years older. [11]
She was seventeen years old. [5]
Roxana was twenty years old. [5]
It is forty-two years old. [5]
He was twenty-five years old. [5]
It's five thousand years old. [11]

Sentences containing years two or more times

I have heard you say so many times that nobody could be a great artist without passing years and years at work, and growing pale and lean with thinking so hard. [6]
To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
It is sixty years, then, since that time; and as they were, on an average, about twenty years old, those who survive must have reached fourscore years. [6]
Well, 'tis three years since--" "Three years! [11]
It is four years since Susy died; it is five years and a month that I saw her alive for the last time-throwing kisses at us from the railway platform when we started West around the world. [5]
Well, it's twenty years since I gambled--twenty years. [11]
He was twenty-five years old, college bred, and had finished a post-college course in an Eastern law school a couple of years before. [5]
Sheila was two years old when her father disappeared, and fifteen years had gone since then. [11]
In the earlier years of his ministry he had sometimes noticed this, when he was preaching; --very little of late years. [6]
For years and years I saw his ending there. [11]

More example sentences with the word years in them

There was that youth in Pennsylvania, whose curious confession was published some years ago. [5]
But I was young, I was but seven years of age, and vain, foolish, and anxious to attract attention. [5]
I say two young people, for the one who counts most years seems to me to be really the younger of the pair. [6]
Perhaps, if such young people will lay the number aside, and take it up ten years, or a little more, from the present time, they may find something in it for their advantage. [6]
When I've told you, then you must say whether you will have anything to do with it, or with me.... You remember," he continued, without waiting for her to speak, "you remember that day upon the Ecrehos--five years ago? [11]
I believe in you, Mr. Gridley, as I believe in my Maker and in Father Pemberton,--but, poor man, he's old, and you won't be old these twenty years yet. [6]
Denzil belongs to you, because you helped to save him years ago; the Catholic Archbishop belongs to you, because he's got brains and a love of literature and art; Barode Barouche belongs to you, because he's almost a genius too. [11]
It is not you who can look ahead two short years and see the ship of Democracy splitting on the rocks at Charleston and at Baltimore, when the power of your name might have steered her safely. [9]
Like some of you who are here present, I have been on this vestry for many years, and my father was on it before me. [9]
Let me show you what a man has got to go through: Nine years ago I mapped out my "Journey in Heaven. [5]
Yes, I remember, you told me years ago, m'sieu'. [11]
And I ask you to believe it is not done lightly, or without due consideration, but as the result of some years of thought. [9]
I've been with you thirty years, come December, Mr. Pindar, and you've been a good employer to me. [9]
It would take you thirty years to guess, and even then you would have to give it up, I believe. [5]
Of course, with you soldiers the years of warfare count double, and he--Duke Alba said so--was born a general. [10]
No stranger puzzles you so much as the once close friend, with whose thinking and associates you have for years been unfamiliar. [4]
Gustave Blittersdorf, who you say is enlisted in the One hundred and nineteenth Pennsylvania Volunteers as William Fox, is proven to me to be only fifteen years old last January. [7]
Don't you remember you said something of the kind the night of the election, years ago? [9]
As long as you run across Englishmen born this side of three hundred years ago, you are all right; but the minute you get back of Elizabeth's time the language begins to fog up, and the further back you go the foggier it gets. [5]
Friend, I pray you repress those tears, Comfort from this derive: I am a score--and more-of years And Jean is only five. [11]
Do you think you have anything to say about the use of my money, scraped up in forty years in Ingy? [4]
He has scorned you for years, and defied you. [5]
I've lived with you for over thirty years, and I haven't spoken my mind often, but I'm speaking it now. [11]
Many years ago you docked me on an article because the subject was too old; later, you docked me on an article because the subject was too new; later still, you docked me on an article because the subject was betwixt and between. [5]
Fifteen years ago you came to see my father, and now you have come to see me--all in the light o' the moon, as it were; like a villain in a play. [11]
I've told it you because you saved me years ago when I fell down the bank. [11]
My dear father, you are nearing the time-post of ninety years, with great health and cheerfulness; it is my hope you may top the arch of your good and honourable life with a century key-stone. [11]
I can tell you all that you wish to know, my Master, for, during forty-five years, I devoted my humble services to the sick poor there. [10]
Here, I'll spin you a yarn: "It happened four years ago. [11]
I will read you a written statement upon the subject that I wrote three years ago to read to the Sabbath-schools. [5]
That would make you a hundred and eighty years old. [5]
A few years yonder in the desert--power, glory, wealth won for Egypt, the strength of thine arms known, the piety of thy spirit proven, thy name upon every tongue--on thy return, who then should fear for Egypt! [11]
How noble and yet how easy was the bearing of the dignitary, who was still less than thirty years old! [10]
For some years yet he must continue to earn his daily bread by the sweat of his brow, having absolutely no means, no home, no friend to consult. [7]
I am jealous, yes, I own I am jealous of any word, spoken or written, that would tend to impair that birthright of reverence which becomes for so many in after years the basis of a deeper religious sentiment. [6]
For in four years, with a year still to spare, you have sold the 250,000 volumes, and 240,000 besides. [5]
Dead, these many years, they said. [5]
All the first years, their only question had been--asked with beseechings and tears that might have moved stones, in time, perhaps, but hearts are not stones: "Is he alive? [5]
Some have gained years, some have lost them. [5]
We'll say fifteen years, since I was riding to Haarlem with the innkeeper Aquarius, who as you know, is a learned man and has all sorts of old stuff and Latin manuscripts. [10]
All these many years, since 1820, the northern part had remained a wilderness. [7]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
A year, two years, passed, which were as ten upon the shoulders of the old people, and then, in the dead of winter, an important thing happened. [11]
After all these years, Mr. Daaken stands before me a prominent figure of the past in an ill-fitting suit of snuff colour. [9]
In all these years, I've been closer to him than any one else, and I don't know him today half as well as you do. [9]
Indeed, for many years, if there was any exception to the general toleration it was in the social ostracism of those who held and expressed extreme opinions in regard to immediate emancipation, and were stigmatized as abolitionists. [4]
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her. [5]
In his tenderer years, Honora even fired George, and riots occurred which took the combined efforts of Cousin Eleanor and Mammy Lucy to quell. [9]
Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
For a dozen years, by operations, various, secret, untiring, he had been laying the foundations for his success, and in the maturing of his schemes it became apparent how vast his transactions had been. [4]
In those thirty years, by a sane and steady growth, Hilary Vane had achieved his present eminent position in the State. [9]
In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
But after many years, as I looked on the little front-yard again, it occurred to me that there used to be some Star-of-Bethlehems in the southwest corner. [6]
But for two years, and with leisure, he did nothing. [4]
Thenceforward for sixty-one years, and until, in 1848, the last scrap of this Territory came into the Union as the State of Wisconsin, all parties acted in quiet obedience to this ordinance. [7]
They last five years, and they won't absorb water. [5]
It is four years, and still there are but two in your lodge. [11]
Again, another three years, and now he writes me that he is going to be married to Clare Hazard on the twenty sixth of this month. [11]
It is ten years, and he t'ink it is all right. [11]
Now, after ten years, a bill was finally passed to pay to Moses the difference between what he earned in that unlucky year and what he received. [5]
During three successive years, 1868, 1869, 1870, Emerson delivered a series of Lectures at Harvard University on the "Natural History of the Intellect. [6]
Being about seven years younger than Waldo, he must have received much of his intellectual and moral guidance at his elder brother's hands. [6]
She is thirteen years younger than Cleopatra, but her mistress holds the first place in her heart also. [10]
I know the years when the fevers and dysenteries are in earnest, and when they're only making believe. [6]
And as the years went on we'd realise how every form of success was offset by something undone in another direction, something which would have given us joy and memory and content--so it seems. [11]
For a hundred years we have reckoned it progress, that the people were taking part in government. [4]
Anyhow, that seven years was rough on Rachel. [11]
After all these years was he going to speak of Philip? [11]
In seven hundred years wages will have risen to six times what they are now, here in your region, and farm hands will be allowed 3 cents a day, and mechanics 6. [5]
Came out twenty years too soon,--that was the trouble. [6]
It is two years too long, dear Cure. [11]
We started several years too late. [9]
It took many years to train the as yet undisciplined powers into orderly obedience, and to bring the unarranged materials into the organic connection which was needed in the construction of a work that should endure. [6]
It takes seven years to complete a book by this method, but still it is a good method: gives the public a rest. [5]
For thousands of years this clan have dwelt in Shechem under strict tabu, and having little commerce or fellowship with their fellow men of any religion or nationality. [5]
In all these years they have never suspected. [5]
For over three years they had let society talk. [11]
Again in later years the two men met, the stranger the aggressor--without due cause. [11]
For thousands of years the story of the Exodus has lived in the minds of numberless people as something actual, and it still retains its vitality. [10]
For a hundred years the South was developed on its own lines, with astonishingly little exterior bias. [4]
During his later years the rigor of the Northern winter had been too severe for Warner's health. [4]
In his later years the physician may venture more boldly. [3]
After many, many years the man sat by a coffin, in an empty home. [5]
Now for some years the divergence of society and politics has been increasing at the capital. [4]
After all the years that had passed since his wife had left him, Jean Jacques did explode. [11]
Never in the years that had gone had there been such silence between them as they sat together. [11]
For fourteen hundred years St. Mark has been her patron saint. [5]
The king, four years since, had ordered a sculptor to execute a sacred image with the lovely features of the newly-married bride of his charioteer, and Paaker had succeeded in having a duplicate made. [10]
It was twelve years since, during the plague. [10]
Philippus had, some years since, been called to the old man's bedside in sickness, and being then a beginner and in no great request, he had given the best of his time and powers to the case. [10]
In the eleven years since they had been together at the Battle of Jersey, events, travel, and responsibility had altered him vastly. [11]
It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our national Constitution. [7]
It was fifteen years since Soolsby had been in this room; and then he had faced this man's father with a challenge on his tongue such as he meant to speak now. [11]
It was eight years since she had seen him. [11]
It is twenty years since 'Pierre and His People' was produced--and it still endures. [11]
And it's seven-and-twenty years since Maister Robert went. [11]
It is sixty years since I was here before. [5]
It's ten years--ten years since I saw you, and you were only fifteen, but a fifteen that was as good as twenty. [11]
It is two years since I last saw her; at our place we never have time to leave work till it is dark. [10]
In the thirteen years since he married he had been able to keep a good many irons in the fire, and also keep them more or less hot. [11]

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