Years

Definitions

1. Year.
2. A very long time.
   colloquial, excessive, plural, plural-only
3. Day in that they fulfil years.
4. Quantity of time lived from the birth or time spent from the origin of something.

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Examples

“1981, May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use⟳ via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, said with a smile⟳ at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol It will be a shorter book and it will not start⟳ four million years ago.”

“Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste⟳ oxygen using solar energy.”

“It took years for the bus to come⟳.”

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