Word Finder - years

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A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).

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we moved to this town a year ago;  I quit smoking exactly one year ago

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(by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.

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Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.

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A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.

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A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.

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A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.

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During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.

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A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".

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A level or grade in school or college.

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Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.

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The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

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Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.

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A very long time.

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It took years for the bus to come.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.