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Definition: Years |
YearsNoun1. Late time of life; "old age is not for sissies," "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood". 2. A prolonged period of time; "we've known each other for ages"; "I haven't been there for years and years". 3. The time during which someone's life continues; "the monarch's last days"; "in his final years". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "years" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Multilingual Slang | Catalan (tacos). (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
simple:year A year is the term for any period of time that is derived from the period of the orbit of the Earth (or indeed any planet) around its Sun. In astronomy, several types of year are defined:
365.256363051 days (at the epoch J2000 = 1 Jan. 2000 12h TT).
- sidereal year: the actual period for the Earth to complete one revolution of its orbit, as measured in a fixed frame of reference (such as the fixed stars, Latin sidus). Its duration is on average:
The actual duration varies from year to year because the motion of the Earth is influenced by the gravity of the Moon and other planets.
365.24218967 days (365d 5h 48m 45s) (at the epoch J2000).
- tropical year: the period for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to the framework provided by the intersection of the ecliptic (the plane of the orbit of the Earth) and the plane of the equator (the plane perpendicular to the rotation axis of the Earth). Because of the precession, this framework moves slowly backwards along the ecliptic with respect to the fixed stars; as a consequence, the Earth completes this year before it completes a full orbit as measured in a fixed reference frame. Therefore a tropical year is shorter than the sidereal year: its duration (averaged over all tropical ecliptic points) was:
the perihelion, where the Earth is closest to the Sun (around 2 January), and
- anomalistic year: the period for the Earth to complete one revolution with respect to its apsides. The orbit of the Earth is elliptical; the extreme points, called apsides, are:
the aphelion, where the Earth is furthest from the Sun (around 2 July).
- Because of gravitational disturbances by the other planets, the shape and orientation of the orbit are not fixed, and the apsides slowly move with respect to a fixed frame of reference. Therefore the anomalistic year is slightly longer than the sidereal year: on average:
- 365.259635864 days (at the epoch J2000).
346.620075883 days (at the epoch J2000).
- eclipse or ecliptic year: the period for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to a node of the Moon's orbit (the points where the Moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic). This period is associated with eclipses: these occur only when both the Sun and the Moon are near these nodes; so eclipses occur within about a month every half eclipse year. Hence the are two eclipse seasons every eclipse year. The average duration of the eclipse year is:
411.78443029 days (at the epoch J2000).
- similar to the eclipse year, there is the period for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to the perigee of the Moon's orbit. This has not received much attention in astronomical literature. This period is associated with the apparent size of the Full Moon, and also with the varying duration of the synodic month. The duration of one fumocy is:
Calendars usually try to match some tropical year, because the seasons and their cardinal points are determined by this sort of year. For practical reasons, a calendar year consists of an integer number of days. In the calendar currently in use in western societies, the Gregorian calendar, most years have 365 days. In order to keep synchronized with the March equinox tropical year (365.2424 days), almost every 4th year gets 366 days: this is called a leap year. The most important current exception is the Islamic calendar, a lunar calendar without leap years, in which holidays move through the seasons.
Julian year: 365.25 days, the average length of the year in the Julian calendar.
The Gaussian year lasts 365.2568983 days, and is derived from the Gaussian gravitational constant that is expressed in units of the solar system.
Besselian year: this is a tropical year that starts when the mean Sun reaches the ecliptic longitude of 280°. This is always on or close to the 1st day of January. It is named after the 19th-century astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Bessel. An approximate formula to compute the current time in Besselian years from the Julian day is:
B = 2000 + (JD - 2451544.53)/365.242189
The distinction from one planet to another is made through use of a preceding adjective, such as: "the Martian year."
- See also calendar year, fiscal year, leap year, solar year, time
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Year."
Synonyms: YearsSynonyms: age (n), days (n), eld (n), geezerhood (n), long time (n), old age (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Adolescence | Verb: come of age, come to man's estate, come to years of discretion; attain majority, assume the toga virilis; have cut one's eyeteeth, have sown one's mild oats. |
Age | Turned of, years old; of a certain age, no chicken, old as Methuselah; ancestral, patriarchal; (ancient); gerontic. |
Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life. | |
Adjective: aged; old; elderly, geriatric, senile; matronly, anile; in years; ripe, mellow, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime; gray, gray-headed; hoar, hoary; venerable, time-worn, antiquated, passe, effete, decrepit, superannuated; advanced in life, advanced in years; stricken in years; wrinkled, marked withthe crow's foot; having one foot in the grave; doting; (imbecile); like the last of pea time. | |
Diuturnity | Verb: last, endure, stand, remain, abide, continue, brave a thousand years. |
Five | Thousand, chiliad; millennium, thousand years, grand; myriad; ten thousand, ban, man; ten thousand years, banzai; lac, one hundred thousand, plum; million; thousand million, milliard, billion, trillion; |
Futurity | Noun: futurity, futurition; future, hereafter, time to come; approaching time, coming time, subsequent time, after time, approaching age, coming age, subsequent age, after age, approaching days, coming days, subsequent days, after days, approaching hours, coming hours, subsequent hours, after hours, approaching ages, coming ages, subsequent ages, after ages, approaching life, coming life, subsequent life, after life, approaching years, coming years, subsequent years, after years; morrow; millennium, doomsday, day of judgment, crack of doom, remote future. |
Inactivity | Phrase: the eyes begin to draw straws; "bankrupt of life yet prodigal of ease"; " better years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay"; "idly busy rolls their world away "; "the mystery of folded sleep"; "the timely dew of sleep"; "thou driftest gently down the tides of sleep"; "tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep". |
Infrequency | Once; once in a blue moon; once in a million years; once for all, once in a way; pro hac vice. |
Negation | Never, never in a million years; at no time. |
Possessor | Noun: possessor, holder; occupant, occupier; tenant; person in possession, man in possession; renter, lodger, lessee, underlessee; zemindar, ryot; tenant on sufferance, tenant at will, tenant from year to year, tenant for years, tenant for life. |
Property | Limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate; estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie; remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility. |
The Past | Adverb: paleo-; archaeo-; formerly; of old, of yore; erst, whilom, erewhile, time was, ago, over; in the olden time; Noun: anciently, long ago, long since; a long while, a long time ago; years ago, yesteryear, ages ago; some time ago, some time since, some time back. |
Unconformity | Once in a blue moon, once in a million years. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Years |
| English words defined with "years": Wise in years. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "years": Actian Years, added years ♦ Climacteric Years ♦ Residence 5 years ag. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "years": Yeared. (references) |
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Screenplays | Yeah, like twenty years ago (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) I figured, I've slept the first eleven years of my life away, so now I'm just making up for it. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski) I walked all night, I walked as I had walked years before when my mind swarmed with guilt at the thought of killing (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) As you see her, two years later, I wonder if you realize something (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan) I've been a reporter for 25 years and I've never heard that (His Girl Friday; writing credit: Ben Hecht; Charles MacArthur) | |
Lyrics | Run for the shadows, run for the shadows, run for the shadows in these golden years (Golden Years; performing artist: DAVID BOWIE) All those years ago. (All Those Years Ago; performing artist: George Harrison) Holding back the years, (Holding Back the Years; performing artist: Simply Red) Are you reelin' in the years (Reelin' in the Years; performing artist: Steely Dan) I been in the game for ten years makin' rap tunes (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC) | |
Clever | Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for. (references; author: Mark Twain) Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free (references; author: unknown) Under same management for over 2000 years. (references; author: unknown) Hang in there: Retirement is only 30 years away! (references; author: unknown) Killer Sentenced to Die for Second Time in 10 Years (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | 100 Years of Olympic Glory (1996) All the Years of Her Life (1974) After Ten Years (1973) 75 Years of Cinema Museum (1972) The Enchanted Years (1971) | |
Song Titles | All Those Years Ago (performing artist: George Harrison) Through The Years (performing artist: Kenny Rogers) The Living Years (performing artist: Mike + The Mechanics) Holding Back The Years (performing artist: Simply Red) Reelin' in the Years (performing artist: Steely Dan) | |
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 | Breast imaging technology has changed over the years. Shown are mammography on left and MRI on right. Note MRI's enhancement ability to confirm diagnosis. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Extension of the Cancer Program. On July 23, 1974 an Act was signed "to amend the Public Health Service Act to improve the National Cancer Program and to authorize appropriations for such program for the next three fiscal years". See also ar000167. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Map showing incidence of H. influenzae non-type b invasive disease among children <5 years of age, per 100,000 population, United States, 1996. Credit: CDC. |  | 27 year old white female with cutaneous anthrax on right forearm; patient had worked in a spinning department of a goat hair processing plant for 3 years; lesion as seen on 12th day. Credit: CDC. |
 | New Animation Depicts Changs in Antarctic Ice Sheet For the first time, scientists at NASA have generated a computer model depicting changes in the Antarctic ice sheet since the peak of the last ice age - nearly 20,000 years ago. The West Antarctic ice. Credit: NASA. |  | In its first ten years, the 12.5-ton Earth-orbiting NASA's Hubble has studied 13,670 objects, ... Credit: NASA. |
 | The highest velocity material expelled in a cataclysmic, stellar explosion 10 years ago has ... Credit: NASA. |  | Ephemeral Lake Carnegie, in Western Australia, fills with water only during periods of significant rainfall. In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh. Credit: NASA. |
 | John Rodgers Served over three years with Coast Survey in early 1850's Commanded North Pacific exploring expedition. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Benjamin F. Sands Served many years with Coast Survey prior to Civil War Besides commanding ships for the Survey, served as chief of topographic party. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
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| "300 years old trees are makin" by Peter Gašperan Commentary: "300 years old trees are makin love." | "Flo at 2 years" by Taylor Dixson Commentary: "A photo of me as a kid. feel free to use, but send me a link first please..." |
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 | Groovy, funk style piece quite typical of the early hip hop years. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Edward A. Craighill | What though the tide of years may roll. |
George Bancroft | Avarice is the vice of declining years. |
George William Curtis | Age is a matter of feeling, not of years. |
Madame Swetchine | Years do not make sages; they only mame old men. |
Ovid | Nothing is swifter than our years. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The years teach much which the days never know. |
Robert Browning | A minute's success pays the failure of years. |
Titus Maccius Plautus | Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. |
Virgil | Years grow cold to love. |
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John Locke | 1690 | Is a man under the law of England? What made him free of that law? that is, to have the liberty to dispose of his actions and possessions according to his own will, within the permission of that law? A capacity of knowing that law; which is supposed by that law, at the age of one and twenty years, and in some cases sooner. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Constitution | 1791 | Clause 1: The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, (See Note 3) for six Years; and each Senator shall have one Vote. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1996 | But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age,* and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. (reference) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The period of office of the Members of the Governing Body will be three years. (reference) |
Winston S. Churchill | 1946 | We British have our twenty years Treaty of Collaboration and Mutual Assistance with Soviet Russia. ("Iron Curtain" Speech) |
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1963 | But one hundred years later, we must face the tragic fact that the Negro is still not free. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1895) |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | He had not been at Donwell for two years. |
Only a Woman's Hair | Carroll, Lewis | Nay! In those words there rings from other years The echo of a long low cry, Where a proud spirit wrestles with its tears In loneliest agony |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years, it was a splendid laugh, a most illustrious laugh |
So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish | Douglas Adams | A man can't cross a hundred thousand light years, mostly in other people's baggage compartments, without beginning to fray a little, and Arthur had frayed a lot. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | It seemed not yesterday, not one, nor two, but many days, or even years ago, since he had quitted them |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was a boy of less than ten years, ragged, very small, yellow, a mug of a face, a keen eye, monstrous long hair, wet to the skin, a complacent look |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | At the end of all those billions and trillions of years eternity would have scarcely begun |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Seven years. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | In the pursuit of which by thrift and management, I might reasonably expect, in about two hundred years to be the wealthiest man in the kingdom |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Median followup is 3 years. (references) | |
You are 65 years old or older. (references) | ||
Sealants can last up to 10 years. (references) | ||
Business | Most licenses are valid for 20 years. (references) | |
Guaranteed tax stability for 15 years. (references) | ||
The procedure can take more than ten years. (references) | ||
Children | Estonia | The mandatory education period is 9 years. (references) |
Cote d'Ivoire | Many children leave school after only a few years. (references) | |
Dominica | The age of consent for sexual relations is 16 years. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | In 1991 this sentence was increased to 10 years. (references) |
Zimbabwe | The Board banned at least 10 films in recent years. (references) | |
Belgium | Stateless persons and refugees can apply after 2 years. (references) | |
Discrimination | Vietnam | This prohibition is less restrictive than in past years because of the growth in private sector job opportunities. (references) |
Economic History | Russia | The U.S.S.R. lasted 69 years. (references) |
Algeria | The APN is elected every 5 years. (references) | |
Human Rights | Algeria | A judge's term is 10 years. (references) |
Angola | Delays of 2 or 3 years are common. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | Many such cases drag on for years. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Argentina | Other demographers in recent years have provided estimates of at most 450,000 persons. (references) |
Brazil | The 1988 Constitution charged the Federal Government with demarcating indigenous areas within 5 years. (references) | |
Brazil | The report also noted that, in the 500 years since discovery, 85 percent of native languages had become extinct. (references) | |
Minorities | France | Papon was sentenced to 10 years in prison. (references) |
United Kingdom | The CRE monitors the response to such notices for 5 years. (references) | |
Romania | Illiteracy among Roma over 45 years of age approaches 30 percent. (references) | |
Political Economy | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC | Some debts are over ten years old. (references) |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | The NDP had held power for 16 years. (references) | |
Vietnam | Party Congresses are held every five years. (references) | |
Political Rights | Hungary | Elections are held at least every 4 years. (references) |
Bangladesh | M.P.'s are elected at least every 5 years. (references) | |
Peru | The length of a term in Congress is 5 years. (references) | |
Trade | Bulgaria | Certificates are valid for two years. (references) |
Kenya | The process can take up to three years. (references) | |
Italy | The time limit for such storage is 5 years. (references) | |
Travel | Argentina | The permit authorizes a stay from one to three years. (references) |
Yemen | Rents have declined in recent years due to a housing surplus. (references) | |
Spain | They have been less frequent and less numerous in recent years. (references) | |
Women | Australia | Punishment for these crimes can include up to 7 years in prison. (references) |
Kazakhstan | The punishment for rape can range from 3 to 15 years imprisonment. (references) | |
Fiji | Only one case in the last 5 years has been sent to the High Court. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Finland | It was the longest strike in a number of years. (references) |
Guinea | Apprentices may start to work at 14 years of age. (references) | |
Tunisia | They inspect most firms about once every 2 years. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EXILE, n. One who serves his country by residing abroad, yet is not an ambassador. An English sea-captain being asked if he had read "The Exile of Erin," replied: "No, sir, but I should like to anchor on it." Years afterwards, when he had been hanged as a pirate after a career of unparalleled atrocities, the following memorandum was found in the ship's log that he had kept at the time of his reply: Aug. 3d, 1842. Made a joke on the ex-Isle of Erin. Coldly received. War with the whole world! |
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Dennis Miller | What lifts my ass off the can is when people who have smoked for fifty years are amazed when they get lung cancer. |
Jesse Ventura | Taxes were never raised on my watch. In four years, there was never a tax raise, they were all lowered. |
Joan Lunden | I am a little nuts, but that's OK. I have a very physical life. And we did try for a number of years through the in vitro process. |
Lynne Cheney | Oh, it's such a big job, you know. And it gives you the scope to use all of the experience and the talent that you've developed over the years. |
Marla Hanson | Right. I took four years off to raise my child. Now I'm starting to get back into the writing. I'm actually working on a book this time. |
Paul Harvey | Sure, I still pound every word into an IBM Selectric. I did get that far. I used a manual typewriter until a just a few years ago. |
Pierce Brosnan | Well I've done a bit of yoga throughout the years and learning some breathing exercises, but it can catch up with you at times. |
Rush Limbaugh | Genuine cuts did occur in the federal budget during the Clinton-Gore years in the area of defense. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Reform, reorganization and strengthening of our whole judicial and enforcement system, both in civil and criminal sides, have been advocated for years by statesmen, judges, and bar associations. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Equalizing of business opportunity, under full and free competition, must be a prime responsibility in the reconversion period and in the years that follow. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | Speaker, members of my family and friends, my countrymen, and the friends of my country, wherever they may be, we meet again, as upon a like moment four years ago, and again you have witnessed my solemn oath of service to you. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Designed to check inflation in earlier years, it now checks growth instead. |
Richard Nixon | 1969-1974 | Two hundred years ago this Nation was weak and poor. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Fiscal restraint must be continued in the years ahead. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | It'll build carefully and steadily in the months and years ahead. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Serious crime has dropped five years in a row. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | If tax relief is good enough for Americans three years from now, it is good enough for Americans today. |
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| "Years" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 99.94% of the time. "Years" is used about 90,128 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 99.94% | 90,077 | 99 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.06% | 51 | 47,619 |
| Total | 100.00% | 90,128 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| USA | The First Years Inc. |
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Expressions using "years": added years ♦ advanced in years ♦ as years go by ♦ at a distance of several years ♦ be getting on in years ♦ be six years old ♦ bear one's years well ♦ before many years ♦ boom years ♦ brave a thousand years ♦ declining years ♦ difference in years ♦ donkey's years ♦ dry years ♦ ECU yield 10 years maturity ♦ ECU yield 5 years maturity ♦ fife years ♦ fifty years old ♦ five years ♦ Five Years Defense Program ♦ for 20 years without break ♦ for a period of two years ♦ for donkey's years ♦ for years ♦ get on in years ♦ get three years in jail ♦ hundred years war ♦ in after years ♦ in one's declining years ♦ in the recent years ♦ in years ♦ it has put years on me ♦ lasting for years ♦ lasting many years ♦ late years ♦ lean years ♦ lower secondary school years ♦ many years back ♦ never in a million years ♦ new years ♦ new years day ♦ new years eve ♦ of five years ♦ of four years ♦ of late years ♦ of many years ♦ of many years standing ♦ of several years ♦ once in a million years ♦ over two years ♦ person who has held a doctorate for fifty years ♦ Quality-Adjusted Life Years ♦ seven years war ♦ space out payments over ten years ♦ stricken in years ♦ suspended sentence of two years ♦ teenage years ♦ ten thousand years ♦ tenant for years ♦ the years of discretion ♦ thirty years war ♦ thousand years ♦ thousand years old ♦ three hundred years old ♦ three years ago ♦ twenty years back ♦ two years back ♦ wear one's years well ♦ well on in years ♦ wise in years ♦ year over the years ♦ years ago ♦ years back ♦ years of discretion ♦ years of struggle ♦ years old. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "years": years-authenticated, years-for, years-imprisonment, years-in, years-of-age, years-old, years-probably, years-since, years-sooner, years-will. | |
Ending with "years": child-years, first-years, half-years, light-years, man-years, pack-years, person-years, robin-years, third-years, three-years, two-years, women-years. | |
Containing "years": eight-years-old, fifty-years-ago, five-years-old, five-years-olds, four-years-old, millions-of-years-old, nine-years-old, oral-aggressive-anal-retentive-come-and-see-me-five-times-a-week-for-years-at-vast-expense-or-how-do-i-know-you're-really-committed, person-years-at-risk, seven-years-old, sixteen-years-old, six-years-old, ten-years-old, ten-years-on, ten-years-straight, threescore-years-and-ten, three-years-old, twelve-years-olds, twenty-four-years-old, twenty-one-years-old, two-years-old, two-years-olds. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
new years | 1,547 | 100 years war | 65 |
new years eve | 1,409 | 100 ford years | 64 |
wonder years | 501 | 16 old years | 63 |
early years education | 362 | through the years | 62 |
the first years | 272 | dog years | 61 |
ten years after | 131 | bell by college saved years | 60 |
hundred years war | 129 | best years of our life | 60 |
12 years old | 98 | one hundred years of solitude | 56 |
seven years war | 98 | five last years | 56 |
14 old years | 96 | leap years | 55 |
ago four long score seven years | 92 | seven years in tibet | 55 |
years | 92 | kenny rogers through the years | 53 |
quote wonder years | 92 | 15 years | 50 |
18 years old | 83 | lyrics through years | 49 |
performance years | 76 | the wonder years cast | 47 |
15 old years | 76 | new years eve party | 43 |
thirty years war | 76 | golden years | 42 |
ago four score seven years | 75 | 14 years | 42 |
13 old years | 74 | years of anniversary | 40 |
adult years young | 68 | 12 years | 39 |
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| Language | Translations for "years"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | vjetrohem (age, become obsolete, get old, get on in years, grow old, outwear), plakem (age, get old, get on in years, grow old, olden, tread on smb.'s foot), kohë shumë e gjatë (donkey's years), i moshuar (advanced in years, declining, elder, old, ripe). (various references) | |
Arabic | متقدم في السن (advanced in years, overage), نهاية العام (late years). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възраст (age, years old), в напреднала възраст (advanced in years), в последни години (of late years), остарявам (age, become adult, get old, get on in years, go grey, grow old, olden). (various references) | |
Chinese | 几年. (various references) | |
Czech | starší (above an age, advanced in years, elder, elderly, senior, sr), na sklonku života (in one's declining years), léta letoucí (for years), hubená léta (dry years), dostat tři roky (get three years in jail). (various references) | |
Danish | i to paa hinanden foelgende aar (during two successive years), den generaladvokat,der afgaar efter forloebet af de foerste tre aar,udpeges ved lodtraekning (the Advocate-General whose term of office is to expire at the end of the first three years shall be chosen by lot), dommerne vaelger at deres midte for et tidsrum af tre aar Domstolens praesident (the Judges shall elect the President of the Court of Justice from among their number for a term of three years), efter to aars drift havarerede roerbundtet paa grund af svaere korrosionsangreb i de indsnaevrede dele af roerene (after two years of service, the tube bundle broke down owing to severe corrosion of the narrow parts of the tubes), femårig planlægningsperiode (five years planning period), fire aar er forloebet siden indleveringen af patentansoegningen (four years have elapsed since the filing of the patent application), frist,der er udtrykt i dage,uger,måneder eller år (months or years, period expressed in days, weeks), bestemmelse af koncentrationsniveauer og undersoegelse af spredning af sod og svovldioxid er i mange aar blevet foretaget systematisk i et landsdaekkende net af maalestationer (the measurement of concentration levels and study of dispersion of smoke and sulfur dioxide have been conducted syStematically for many years in a country-wide network of sampling stations), i en aaraekke blev der taget boretidslogs ved at rotationsroeret blev maerket med én fods mellemrum,hvorefter den tid,det tog hvert maerke at naa rotationsroersboesningen,blev registreret (for many years drilling-time logs were made by marking the kelly in 1-ft intervals and recording the time when each mark reached the kelly bushing), tilføjede år (added years), kravene foraeldes fem aar efter,at den omstaendighed,der ligger til grund for kravet,er indtraadt (proceedings shall be barred after a period of five years from the occurence of the event giving rise thereto), program for forhoejelser af de afgiftsfrie beloeb over en aarraekke (programme of increases in the allowances over a number of years), rubrikken kortfristede laan og kreditter omfatter de laan og kreditter,som ikke er indskud,og hvis loebetid ved udstedelsen normalt er paa maksimalt ét aar og undtagelsesvis maksimalt to aar (agreed by contract, is normally one year at the maximum, or in exceptional cases 2 years at the maximum, the heading short term loans covers all credits which are not in the form of deposits and whose original maturity), rubrikken kortfristede vaerdipapirer omfatter fordringer med kort loebetid,normalt 12 maaneder og maksimalt 2 aar.Disse fordringer udgoeres af vaerdipapirer,der er beregnet til at blive sat i omloeb,og hvis nominelle vaerdi,der fastsaettes ved udstedelsen (and which bear interest, but with a maximum of 2 years, determined on issue, fixed at the time of issue, generally paid in advance.They are repayable at their nominal value at a date, is expressed as some round figure, or starting from a date, represented by securities intended to circulate, the heading bills and short term bonds groups together assets with a short maturity, usually up to 12 months, whose nominal value), rubrikken mellem-og langfristede laan og kreditter omfatter de kreditter,som ikke er indlaan,og hvis loebetid ved udstedelsen normalt er paa mindst ét aar og i saerlige tilfaelde mindst to aar (agreed by contract, and in exceptional cases 2 years at the minimum, is normally one year at the minimum, the heading medium and long term loans covers all credits which are not in the form of deposits, whose original maturity), rubrikken obligationer omfatter vaerdipapirer med flere aars loebetid og med fast eller indeksreguleret rente,som betales med kuponer,og som kan indloeses fra en ved udstedelsen fastsat dato (the heading long term bonds groups together securities which at the time of issue have a maturity of several years, which bear fixed or index-linked rates of interest(the interest frequently being payable by coupons)and which are redeemable starting from a date fixed at the time of issue), tidligere regnskabsår (previous financial years), i de sidste to-tre aar er der sket en interessant udvikling inden for avancerede boreskibe med turret-forankring,som goer det muligt for fartoejet at staevne soeen,og endvidere er de vellykkede dinamiske positionsfastholdelse jo kommet frem,hvorved det e |
