Example sentences for: years--

How can you use “years--” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In percentage terms the 20 million new jobs created since January of 1993 represent a growth of 18 percent; in the 1960s and 1980s, the work force grew by greater percentage rates over seven years--25 percent and 22 percent, respectively.

  • Though it has historically exhibited a modest liberal slant--diminished in recent years--Brookings thinks of itself as a scholarly institution devoted to objective research into public policy.

  • Miller occasionally writes a brilliant line, such as Willy's response to the callow boss who fires him after 35 years--"You can't eat an orange and throw the peel away."

  • But the teen culture itself--Archie and Jughead, bobby-soxer mania for Frank Sinatra, etc.--quite obviously predates the teen years of the very oldest baby boomers, who didn't enter those golden years--15, 16--until the early 1960s.

  • When Brady photographed the leaders of the antebellum years--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and the rest--he turned them into actors too.


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