English Sentences Focusing on Words and Their Word Families
The Word "Year" in Example Sentences
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288609	He is far better off now than he was five years ago.	CK
295463	He pinched and scraped for many years to save money.	CM
288525	He retired from the company after 30 years' service.	CM
2912552	How many years ago did you realize you were adopted?	CK
1318658	I found my father's diary that he kept for 30 years.	CK
1864717	I have been living in Rio de Janeiro for four years.	gleydin
253659	I have lived in this village for the past ten years.	CK
72573	I haven't heard a word from them in over four years.	CK
990139	I learned how to drive when I was fifteen years old.	alexmarcelo
252599	I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.	CM
1994582	I wonder if she'll recognize me after so many years.	CK
250236	It has been ten years since my uncle went to Canada.	CK
73321	It was a satisfactory arrangement for fifteen years.	CM
275615	It was five years ago that I graduated from college.	CK
2715418	It's been more than five years since I last saw him.	CK
1543542	Last year we had a hummingbird nest in our backyard.	dada
244721	Last year, my brother was late for school every day.	CK
237866	My brother has been living in London for many years.	CK
2537430	My last real vacation was more than three years ago.	CK
251911	My sister belonged to the basketball club last year.	CK
1430190	My sister is a twenty-one years old college student.	marcelostockle
1038323	Our ancestors arrived in this country 150 years ago.	Eldad
271161	Our world is getting smaller and smaller every year.	CM
3147952	Prices have risen quite a lot in the past few years.	CK
316683	She looked as if she had been sick in bed for years.	CK
3061195	The judge sentenced Tom to three years imprisonment.	CK
1363509	The national debt has trebled in the last ten years.	darinmex
305416	They decided to meet there again after twenty years.	CK
885703	This has been the driest six months in thirty years.	Trailsend
1096338	This town hasn't changed much in the last ten years.	CK
2639911	Tom and I have worked together for over three years.	CK
3171445	Tom got married when he was just eighteen years old.	CK
2712530	Tom was three years old when this picture was taken.	CK
1384581	Tom won the lottery, but went bankrupt a year later.	Spamster
1078142	When you were two years old, you could count to ten.	keira_n
2537404	You won't remember any of this in a couple of years.	CK
72994	A few years ago, our room had little furniture in it.	CK
680130	Agriculture was developed more than 10,000 years ago.	Source_VOA
73302	Anyone over eighteen years of age counts as an adult.	CK
327931	He had been a practitioner of Aikido for seven years.	CM
241782	He is quite different from what he was ten years ago.	CK
288370	He said that he had been in California for ten years.	CK
293983	He went to America last year to brush up his English.	CK
1254832	His brother had been a truck driver for thirty years.	wallebot
257866	I found my father's diary which he kept for 30 years.	CM
258945	I had forgotten that I had met her several years ago.	CK
1937615	I left Shanghai last year and have not yet been back.	CK
1231903	I've been wearing this denim jacket for 15 years now.	Scott
276010	It has been almost 50 years since World War II ended.	CM
29117	It was during my college years that I took up tennis.	CK