The word “years” is the plural of “year,” referring to periods of twelve months. Writers use it to indicate age, time spans, historical eras, or personal milestones. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “years” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Years
When the war broke out he left us, nor did I see him again for some fifteen or sixteen years.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
20 words, 93 characters
As to the details of his life during these years he was very reticent, in fact he would not talk of them at all.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 112 characters
I was then a child of but five years, yet I well remember the tall, dark, smooth-faced, athletic man whom I called Uncle Jack.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
24 words, 126 characters
His property was left in such a way that I was to receive the entire income for twenty-five years, when the principal was to become mine.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
26 words, 138 characters
I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
37 words, 178 characters
His further instructions related to this manuscript which I was to retain sealed and unread, just as I found it, for eleven years; nor was I to divulge its contents until twenty-one years after his death.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
36 words, 204 characters
I knew that I was a good officer and sailor, and I didn’t propose submitting to degradation and discharge because a lot of old, preglacial fossils had declared over two hundred years before that no man should cross thirty.
Source: Beyond Thirty by Edgar Rice Burroughs
39 words, 222 characters
I cannot explain the phenomena; I can only set down here in the words of an ordinary soldier of fortune a chronicle of the strange events that befell me during the ten years that my dead body lay undiscovered in an Arizona cave.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
43 words, 228 characters
Powell, I knew, was well armed and, further, an experienced Indian fighter; but I too had lived and fought for years among the Sioux in the North, and I knew that his chances were small against a party of cunning trailing Apaches.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
42 words, 230 characters
He was, when others were with him, the same genial, happy fellow we had known of old, but when he thought himself alone I have seen him sit for hours gazing off into space, his face set in a look of wistful longing and hopeless misery; and at night he would sit thus looking up into the heavens, at what I did not know until I read his manuscript years afterward.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
71 words, 363 characters
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