years

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  • (UK) IPA: /ji.ə(ɹ)z/, /jɜː(ɹ)z/, X-SAMPA: /ji.@(r)z/, /j3:(r)z/
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years

  1. Plural form of year
    "It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago," he said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol. - Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers, 05 May 1981 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) An unusually long time
    It took years for the bus to come.

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