Some articles on years, year:
... The presidential term has been set at five years since 1988, six years since 1993, seven years since 1999, two years since 2007 and five years since 2008 till present ... It was previously four years from 1948 to 1971 and seven years from 1971 to 1988 ...
... These gifts vary in different countries, but some years have well-established connections now common to most nations 5th Wooden, 10th Tin, 15th Crystal, 20th China, 25th Silver, 30th Pearl ... had prolonged the lives of the couple for so many years ... common 60th anniversary after Queen Victoria's 60 years on the throne was widely marked as her Diamond Jubilee ...
... About ten years later, having received a second Rockefeller Fellowship, he took leave for fifteen months and wrote his pioneering book titled Art and ... In 1959, he was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship, with which he studied in Japan for a year ... Ten years later, in 1969, he accepted an appointment at Harvard University as a Professor of the Psychology of Art ...
... the terms of the constitution of 1816, state representatives served one years terms, meaning elections were held annually ... was replaced by the current constitution and terms were lengthened to two years, but sessions were held biennially ... legislative session to be held in odd numbered years ...
... American Film Institute Lists AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies – Nominated AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains ...
More definitions of "years":
- (noun): A late time of life.
Example: "He's showing his years"
Synonyms: old age, age, eld, geezerhood
- (noun): The time during which someone's life continues.
Example: "In his final years"
Synonyms: days
Famous quotes related to years:
“The legend of Felix is ended, the toiling of Felix is done;
The Master has paid him his wages, the goal of his journey is won;
He rests, but he never is idle; a thousand years pass like a day,
In the glad surprise of Paradise where work is sweeter than play.”
—Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)
“I was born a mechanic, and made a barrel before I was ten years old. The cooper told my father, ‘Fanny made that barrel, and has done it quicker and better than any boy I have had after six months’ training.’ My father looked at it and said, ‘What a pity that you were not born a boy so that you could be good for something. Run into the house, child, and go to knitting.’”
—Frances D. Gage (1808–1884)
“The years when we are parenting teenagers are the high point, the crest when everything seems to be in bright colors and in ten-foot letters.”
—Jean Jacobs Speizer. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Collective, ch. 4 (1978)
“I Years had been from Home
And now before the Door
I dared not enter,”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)