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Example sentences for "years since"

  • How numerous they were in former years we do not know, but understand from old Indians that more buffalo have been seen in late years than were noticed 50 or 60 years since.

  • On another occasion in a battle with the Crow Indians six years since he struck an enemy the first” [here follows two taps on the drum].

  • Notwithstanding all this, we see in many things a desire to change for the better, exhibiting itself in a general feature of improvement when compared with that of 20 years since.

  • So old, they went through civilisation ten thousand years since; they have worn it all out, even hope in the future; they merely live acquiescent to fate, like the red deer.

  • It is years since I went out amongst them in the old fields, and saw them in the green corn; they must be dead, dear little things, by now.

  • Years since at village schools the girls used to swallow pins; first one would do it, then another, presently half the school were taking pins.

  • Express trains go by in a great hurry--the slow waggons gather up the warm hay and the yellow wheat, just as they did hundreds of years since.

  • They were expelled from Persia about 1,200 years since, and settled down along the west coast of India.

  • The Parsees affirm that the fire which burns in the principal temple, and at which all the others are lighted, originates from the fire which their prophet, Zoroaster, lighted in Persia 4,000 years since.

  • The monument, which is immediately outside the town, was built more than two hundred years since by the Sultan Aurung-zeb-Alemgir, in memory of his daughter.

  • Hamrs, 3 Fineries, 1 Chaffery, repd 2 years since, one of the Fineries new.

  • The most part new built, and the rest repaired by the Farmers about 4 years since.

  • The Furnace Howse half tiled, built with timber 4 years since by the Farmers, cost about 80lb, in repaire.

  • Same dimensions, repaired 4 years since by the Farmers, Wheel and almost all the houses built by the Farmers.

  • A deplorable event occurred, about 38 years since, at Messrs.

  • The following is another description of the interior of this edifice, written by a gentleman who has favoured the public with an accurate detail of most of the modern Churches erected some few years since in the vicinity of London.

  • The original bridge was built by the Monks of Starflower Abbey near 700 years since.

  • This structure is thus described by Mr. Wyndham, who visited the spot about thirty years since: "It is an elegant Gothic building, of a date subsequent to that of the church.

  • The Terror which spread it self over the whole Nation some Years since, on account of the Irish, is still fresh in most Peoples Memories, tho it afterwards appeared there was not the least Ground for that general Consternation.

  • For this Reason I shall wave the Discussion of that Point which was started some Years since, whether Milton's Paradise Lost may be called an Heroick Poem?

  • Years since, it was enough for Hogg's enemies to hint vaguely that his intimacy with Harriett was in no slight degree accountable for the briefness of Shelley's affection for her.

  • This system continued until Mr. John George Pyke received the appointment of Police Magistrate, about 60 years since.

  • The old house was removed some years since to make way for a range of wooden three-story buildings, erected by Henry G.

  • The street was cut down about 50 years since and a story or breast work was erected on the street under this little old cottage which may yet be seen projecting from the main building, presenting the appearance of a balcony.

  • About 30 years since, the Hicksite Quakers, who denied the divinity of Christ and the authority of the Bible, made their advent; afterwards the Beaconite Quakers put in an appearance; and then came the Wilburites.

  • At the above rate of increase, how many human beings would have survived in the 5177 years since Noah?

  • Abraham, cannot be a mere coincidence, but are a demonstration against the great age of man required by evolution, and in favor of the 5,177 years since Noah.

  • How many Jews, in the 3850 years since Jacob's marriage?


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "years since" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    allowed them; could hold; doing everything; each stitch; has been pointed out; honourable peace; kingdom come; nature must; noble character; passed out; quoted above; shall cause; trench mortars; white chalk; wild rose; years afterward; years afterwards; years before; years earlier; years from; years later; years male; years old; years past; years since; years went