He stared out at a magnificent banyan tree along a route that Pérez’s driver took, and said softly, “I’ve worked for eighteen years in Haiti, and everything has gotten worse.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

This was in truth the slimmest of formalities, as our families had been acquainted for years. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

White ranchers pastured cattle there, especially during the dry years when no grass grew below the mountain. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For the first twelve years of the Alexandriaville seventh graders’ lives, school media centers were the only libraries they had ever known. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

In his early years in the country, while still enrolled at Harvard Medical School, Farmer himself had wondered about this, and devised a study that followed two groups of TB patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe she was embarrassed it took so many years. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I imagined that parts of my insides and parts of her insides may have come from the same exploding star, billions of years ago. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

He’d stubbornly refused to get a license for years, insisting on riding his bike everywhere. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s eighty-seven years old and will be flying in from Amsterdam. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

One bullet hit a Honduran girl, seventeen or eighteen years old, in the arm. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

But he had been wrong, and the record of the subsequent seven years suggested that the limit still remained well over the horizon. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

It had taken her eight years to reach the seat at the front of the office. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Her family was poor, living for several years in a house without indoor plumbing. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

As I turn back, I see my purse, lying on the floor where I put it, and after all these years I should know better. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one that helped Gram get through her darkest years. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For ten years she hadn’t realized the breadth of what I had accomplished with my exacting competence, the daily work I did, which unto itself became an unassailable body of cover. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the upper left hand is a tongue of flame, a reminder that the universe, now newly created, will billions of years from now be utterly destroyed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this one’s brother was gleaned just two years ago…. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Later he tanned the skin and made a belt; he had worn it for years. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tony had been overwhelmed by that load years ago. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Ivy recognised her as the little girl she had seen in the bakery all those years ago. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He told her everything that had been in his thoughts for years. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Probably the same way they did on those slaves ships years ago. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

In fact, I would venture, what- with Mr Benn retiring, and with grandchildren on the way, that you and Mr Benn have some extremely happy years before you. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

When the strait was at last flooded around 10,000 years ago, Tasmanians and mainland Australians became cut off from each other because neither group possessed watercraft capable of negotiating Bass Strait. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was brief, I can promise that much, for although it’s been many years now since my children ruled my life, a mother recalls the measure of the silences. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been married to your father for twelve years. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over a period of years Doc dug himself into Cannery Row to an extent not even he suspected. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Every ten years the United States government collects data to find out who is living in the US. The census takers ask questions about age, sex, and race, to see how the country is changing.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Eager for some kind of human interest angle, Meryl quizzed her about her career high points, her Quaker ancestors, and her Riverbank years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“In all our years, you’ve never made me coffee,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

I told him about all the years reliving every second of our time together, the years trying to find him, the years of nothing and nobody else. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the schools, periodic brawls broke out between white and black students, and I spent parts of my high school years with police and police dogs stationed in the corridors to keep the races apart. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

With Leper it was always a fight, a hard fight to win when you were seventeen years old and lived in a keyed- up, competing school, to avoiding making fun of him. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

In several years, I’d get my chance to work for the university and reckon with some of these community-relations problems directly, but right now Art was just kindly offering to pass around my résumé. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

For instance, today almost all Japanese and Scandinavians are literate but most Iraqis are not: why did writing nevertheless arise nearly four thousand years earlier in Iraq? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I saw one of them again, baby, years later. I didn’t recognize him at first.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Because Marina Raskova was at least five years older than most of them, and in some cases ten years older, they thought of her as a teacher and an authority. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“They said they got my wife and she part alive,” he told me years later. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

If Liam was so accomplished with his abilities, it probably meant he had taken years to practice, most of those spent outside of camp walls. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Uncle Henry was a head taller than Papa, but he was five or six years younger. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ice ached and groaned, like old bones carrying too many years, brittle and threatening to snap at any moment. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I also knew from thirty years of my profession that I cannot write hot on an event. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was only after five solid years of failure that he began to worry. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

"In Abyssinia. When I was twenty-one years old." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Will he fight for me as welli There was no way to be certain after so many years. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Had all those years, as well as Mom and Dad’s time on the street—not to mention their current life in an abandoned tenement—been a caprice inflicted on us by Mom? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If it had belonged to anyone else first, even someone years above us, a gorgeous item like that wouldn’t have gone unnoticed. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had plenty of street crime, but all the actual warring in recent years had been way in the east of the country, a thousand miles away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I didn’t have so many opportunities, mind you, this being a few years before Walkmans started appearing at the Sales. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The vials and collection tools would’ve intimidated me before the hundreds of years of downloads. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Granny moved back there with Grandpa and Loma, who was four years old at the time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time, she tells Enrique about the struggles she, too, endured during their years apart: “I killed myself trying to help you.” Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her mother had given it to her years ago in expectation of her wedding night, saying, “I hope you fill this out someday.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The wood seemed especially dark and rich, as if it had been absorbing coffee for the last fifty years. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

Although I ultimately don’t regret these past few years, I’ve come to the realization that this is not the place for me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It took years in the crucible of human experience to value the gentle people one meets in the eye of the storm. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Melander himself had run into difficulty with the San Jose scale, for some years satisfactorily controlled by spraying with lime sulfur. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Despite the deaths of recent years, only two of the sixteen members of Williams’s party wore safety helmets or other protective gear. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Huron, he reported in an account of his American years, could not understand why one Man should have more than another, and that the Rich should have more Respect than the Poor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

That night Papa burned the flag he had brought with him from Hiroshima thirty-five years earlier. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was sure he had claimed a hundred and one years at his last party. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Where was God when kids were selling rocks at twelve years old, and their parents encouraged it because the kids were the main breadwinners in the home? The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“He’s from around here. Been gone a long time, though. Maybe ten years.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixteen years of trying and I am not enough. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The belemnite, it turned out, had been discovered four years earlier by an amateur naturalist named Chaning Pearce, and the discovery had been fully reported at a meeting of the Geological Society. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He used it for five years and sold it to an insurance man named Rattle. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

It has been very interesting to me to find that all of our minds had blotted away many details of years in prison. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In 1865, nine years after Sikhdar’s computations had been confirmed, Waugh bestowed the name Mount Everest on Peak XV, in honor of Sir George Everest, his predecessor as surveyor general. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

Carmencita's quip in English is the product of her two or three years away in boarding school in the States. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

If I broke a mirror, I would have seven years of bad luck. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I know what they are, but... that was when my mom was little, like a million years ago. What’s he doing here?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

We kept the scarves he’d brought us back from China when we were two years old, silks with a graceful pattern of cranes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She must have been five or six years old, with matted dark hair and filthy clothes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

For years, this was the state of affairs, and everybody was happy. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The light was gone, but it had etched something onto her wrist that had never been erased, just hidden for years: the indigo ink of a Namwon tattoo. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The guard has a son twenty-three years old, and the slaying impels the young man to go to the United States. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“I came out this way two years ago and spent three days in Stamboul then.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Some do during Christmas, but many don’t. My father hasn’t been back in seven years.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Sixteen years old and not even fully qualified yet?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I wondered whether he had been able to write during the five years, or rather, whether he had been able to publish. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t heard it since they were in school, all those years ago. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It was years before she bought herself that chain. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

As they were the ones I had always liked best, those last years were my happiest at school. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

They’d only come up from America a couple of years ago and were still struggling. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Infestations of the scale insect quickly reappeared and damage exceeded anything that had been seen for fifty years. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t heard this much talk in the past five years combined. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, I have decided that it is time, now that you know what prompted Lord Voldemort to try and kill you fifteen years ago, for you to be given certain information.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It had only been a few days, a blink in my collective sixteen years of life, but I didn’t need to see his face to know soft concern would be there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was “Palestine” for the first years of his life and that’s how most Arabs still referred to it to this day. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And when these next four years were over, we’d be truly done, which made me happiest of all. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

FOR ALL THAT, IT wasn’t until high school graduation that something happened that hadn’t occurred in years: Terryl cried. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Nearly four years younger than his brother, Ernest, at the age of thirty-one he looked rather the elder: his hairline receding, his face already bearing the dour expression of a country doctor. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Hamilton, in turn, opposed Burr’s candidacy for the vice presidency in 1792 and two years later blocked his nomination as American minister to France. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“The alchemist is two hundred years old,” the Englishman had told him. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his more than a score of years as custodian of the sanctuary there, Maurice Broun has observed and actually tabulated more hawks and eagles than any other American. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But I hadn’t been down to the water in years. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

They will be available to her from restaurants, brought up to the flat by servants, bearing a taste that after all these years she has still not quite managed, to her entire satisfaction, to replicate. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh,” he said, “she died twenty-four years ago! Long time ago! Yesterday, in my life!” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As a whole the world is more primitive today than it was fifty years ago. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

American fauna 14,000 years ago was far richer than it is today. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Marshall was thirty years old, sentenced to 150 years to life for taking part in a robbery of a Brooklyn bodega in which his partner had killed the owner. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After Allen finished his two years of college, the army quickly reclassified him I-A, available for military service. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Two years later, when Blake was only twenty-five years old, MI6 sent him to Korea, on a mission to establish a new network of spies in the Far East. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every night, for years, she had tormented the sleepers of Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The first time we’d gotten drunk together, we were fourteen years old. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘Very ridiculous of you, Frodo! But I wish I had been there to see. The worthies of Bree will be discussing it a hundred years hence.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“First, tell me what happened seven years ago.” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were many people very glad to see Cabot Searcy—who had begun his college years as a charming, friendly, and polite young man—leaving for good. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Now was the third time in all the years I had belonged to this library that I was on its third floor. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He had been on a tanker once, maybe twenty years earlier, navigating through the Philippines. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Harry raised his wand, but as he did so, his scar seared more painfully, more powerfully than it had done in years. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She’s about six years old, in a plaid jumper dress, white T-shirt, bobby socks and shoes, her hair loose from its braids, right hand gripping something against her chest. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

“When I see other people with children I wonder whether our decision was right,” she said years later. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

But the noise in my head is quieting down and there’s a Death-Cast herald on the other end of the phone waiting to tell me I’m going to die today at eighteen years old. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I kick up the woven mat of leaves at my feet and release months and years of decay and send beetles scurrying for cover. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

After all these years, I could interpret his various silences. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes in those last years, if Melvin was feeling low, he’d go out and buy some wild tie and wear it every day for a week.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

My grandparents would remain married for thirty-five years, until the day Ata Baba died of a heart attack. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Molly is suddenly struck by the fact that Vivian wrote these words on this sheet of paper more than eighty years ago. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Despite his immense wealth, he failed to settle the full bill for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Convicted at the age of fifteen, he had served ten years in a combination of juvenile and adult penitentiaries on charges of arson and second-degree murder. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The boathouse was perfect when we left—looked like it hadn’t been used in years. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The system was responsible for children until the day they turned eighteen years old. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He couldn’t have found them in a hundred years. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet Farmer only had to look at the changes in Cange from when he’d first visited the settlement six years earlier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

If Mobutu is capable of embarrassment at all, there’s a chance his sentence could be reduced from life to five years, or less. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three and a half years of nights like these, unable to sleep, thinking of another vanished boy, another vanished life that was once his own, and waiting for dawn, and slop-out and another wasted day. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I had seen only one faded newspaper photo of Bobby Frank Cherry many years before. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandfather’s new business associates: in the front seat sits Mabel Reese, twenty-six years old, from Kentucky, face rouged, hair giving off a burnt smell from the morning’s curling iron. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

After two thousand years, it had finally happened. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

My room's neater than it's been in about three years, and I don't want to have to clean it up again. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

But in Maria’s time, nearly two hundred years before photography was invented, documenting research was much more difficult. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She was a New York City school teacher for forty years, and after she retired, decided to travel the world with her husband. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I was about five years old, and, against my mother’s wishes, I went to school instead of pasturing the sheep. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

People had been drilling for oil in the Permian Basin for over sixty years. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every few months, we did a new show, and two years after we opened our doors, we were getting regular crowds for every one. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

He wore a short-sleeve dress shirt that probably fit a few years ago, but now it worked like a tourniquet around his neck and torso. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

She almost went to a doctor two years ago. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

They had always played in the same gang when they were kids, but in the last three years he had been at Vocational while she was still in grammar school. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

One writer has claimed that the two didn’t speak to each other for more than thirty years; that’s simply false. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t seen one in years, but I recognized it—a McDonald’s Happy Meal. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

But then, beginning about 70,000 years ago, Homo sapiens started doing very special things. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’d helped her parents pick the paint four years ago, and her dad spilled a whole bucket of it on his shirt. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Tell me something new. I’ve been sixteen for two years now.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

But about three years before, Onofre Martinez, with some help from Charley Bloom, had put a stop to this by threatening to take Nick, not only into court, but also to the cleaners. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three years of wartime propaganda—racist headlines, atrocity movies, hate slogans, and fright- mask posters—had turned the Japanese face into something despicable and grotesque. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drums beat ominously as he is led away in handcuffs and sentenced to four years. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Having lived on a mountain for twenty years, he’d never seen the sea before. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s a saying from thousands of years ago, written in a language called Latin about a place called Rome,” he explains. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Why could he not have a woman of his own instead of these filthy scuffles at intervals of years? 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

By most faction standards, he is a young leader—only thirty-nine years old. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t seen my dad in years. He’s not part of my life.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He excelled at reading people perhaps because he spent so many years trying to make himself unreadable. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I’d waited ten years to hear the truth, and I couldn’t wait another minute. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I made the days we had spent there seem like years, and the showgirls I’d seen from a distance seem like close friends and neighbors. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The past two years had delivered extremely harsh winters followed by particularly poor harvests, especially in the South. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

All those years of aloofness, of cooping herself up and not caring where Laila went and whom she saw and what she thought... A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I remember you! You were one of the undetermined kids in the Hermes cabin, years ago.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

And yet, it’s Noah who’s been apologizing for years on that website. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But even if it had looked different, Hrdlicka said, that wouldn’t be enough to prove that the ancestors of Indians walked New Jersey thousands of years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Mostly in the South. I went two years up here.” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

What a strange find the two of us would make a thousand years from now, I thought, preserved together in the peat. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

During those revolutionary years, Boston was the springboard of the rebellion against Great Britain, and the center of activity was the North End. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Though she has lived in Toronto for over thirty years, her French-speaking mind still slips on occasion on the understanding of English sounds. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Accordingly, I’ve gone ahead and jotted down a few revealing notes on the bride as I knew her almost six years ago. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

“The Quaker woman’s. Down by Blackbird Pond. She’s been a curse on this town for years with her witchcraft!” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Not if you stayed five years or six to hear how hard it was for the flower of the Akhaians; you’d go home weary, and the tale untold. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had lived all these years by the sea until she knew its every definition of blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet this Lord Furnival had fought in France or had been off to mercenary wars for so many years that most villagers, including myself, had never set eyes on him. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

For two years, Hamilton had been issuing directives to Adams’s cabinet behind the scenes. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Now? Perhaps the King was dispatched—overthrown—at some time. Seventeen or eighteen years ago.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Three years later, after war broke out, the labor service was increased to one year and became compulsory for both boys and girls. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

An inmate with three years in concentration camps behind him. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The door to the roof of the tower was stuck so fast that it was plain no one had opened it in years. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Though Florence had also been indignant, years before when the slimy water entered her incautiously open mouth, she had done her best not to sputter, and she had not cried out. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His boy, no more than four years old, has a problem. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I heard that years ago. But nobody put no stock in it.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Art is five years older than Joel and, on first impression, a very different sort of character. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The boy was some three or four years older than Meggie. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I trained in a desultory way, and only years later, when I had put on a few more pounds, did I begin to box in earnest. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thanks to radioactivity the Earth could be–and self-evidently was–much older than the twenty-four million years Kelvin’s calculations allowed. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cole thought back to all the people at home who had tried to help him over the years. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Less than two years later, the organization had more than nineteen thousand members. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

As the wagon took us up to the front steps, I could see the river off to one side and some of the land I had run through a few hours—a few years—before. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t people plan for years to take a big trip like that? Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

He now faced a total of 115 years behind bars. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“It’s just—What if I’m the one serving you fries in ten years? Does that mean you think I’m dumb like Tyson?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I bet I could hide Shiloh in there for ten years and he’d never make a sound. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps, in a thousand years,” said Spurge with a smile, “our books—books with our names upon them—will be the ones idiots like us will argue over.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Though after all these years I've learned to not get my hopes up too much. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For two thousand years, religious and personal prejudices against Jews have been vented and exercised, as strong as white prejudices against the non-white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years before he had always tended them with care. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

My sweetheart, released after three years without formal charges, was waiting here to raise the dead. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Michael had stayed long past the two years he had committed to us, but he was now scheduled to move to San Diego to start a job as a federal public defender. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The last few years have been truly tough on me and my family. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had lived in our alley for over thirty years without a single disagreement with any of the neighbors. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Both avatars looked Japanese, and they bore a striking resemblance to one another, like snapshots of the same young man taken five years apart. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Twenty years in the future, those girls would still be young, would still be smiling or smoldering or simply looking stupid, with their legs wide open. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly feel jealous of all the years she had before meeting me, and then I swim after her. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He aspired to become a colleague of the great Tycho Brahe, who for thirty-five years had devoted himself, before the invention of the telescope, to the measurement of a clockwork universe, ordered and precise. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea is that about 15,000 years ago a chance mutation let the virus “jump the species barrier,” as scientists say, and infect human beings. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then after a time he went no more to see his sons, but sometimes he would ask Cuckoo, “And are my two daughters-in-law at peace after all these years?” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

At the other end of the dormitory, the adults dreamt of rich food and friends from years gone by. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

By about 300,000 years ago, Homo erectus, Neanderthals and the forefathers of Homo sapiens were using fire on a daily basis. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Tongue-tied? Half mad? If we’d gone to the police they would have charged us with every unsolved death in New England for the last five years.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ten years we were wed, or near enough as makes no matter. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

At forty years old, Roosevelt led them through a hailstorm of bullets as they charged up San Juan Hill, in Cuba, and into a bloody battle. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

It takes more than five years to pay for a house. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not for a couple of years at least! Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

It explained how stars could burn for billions of years without racing through their fuel. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The box is a reddish brown, and he knows it’s made of rosewood because G’ma told him years ago when he first noticed it sitting up on her mantel. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

“I actually taught the principal’s son a few years back.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Just as he had steeled himself against replying, Gregor thought of the last two years, seven months, and, was it fifteen days now? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, she was Belle in Beauty and the Beast, and last year she stole the show as Audrey in Little Shop of Horrors. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

War came to my homeland when I was thirteen years old. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The barbershop, a food market, and the local movie theater have all closed in recent years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Much smaller, I thought, and not nearly so menacing, and in the bright sunlight it was hard to picture what had happened on this ground some twenty years ago. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joaquin had learned a lot of things in his seventeen years. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

This is probably going to be one of my last years, too, so I want to go with my friends. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Tell Donner that his trusted employee has been stealing from him all these years? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

You can change things in later years, but with 93’s your freshman year, you’re going to have a lot of dead weight. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had been afraid of Miss Mellitt, she had come into his nightmares, and even now, when he was at school, doing something, miles and years away from her, he remembered. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And that right there was the single greatest moment of my twelve years of life, seeing Baba on that roof, proud of me at last. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of this about Miss Geraldine reminds me of something that happened about three years later, long after the secret guard idea had faded away. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shorty had dropped out of first-year high school in Lansing, lived awhile with an uncle and aunt in Detroit, and had spent the last six years living with his cousin in Roxbury. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years after I graduated, a second high school in the district closed, and its student population was subsumed into Wilson. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

I still have two more years of high school, and I'm planning to exit to a standing ovation. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in several years, I was able to pick out a card to give to Barack on our anniversary. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I sat until my fingers were numb where they curled against the familiar planks of wood that my father had laid with his bare hands all those years ago. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In spite of the years of note taking and longhand drafts, his writing had never gone to hell the way mine had. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Over the years, I threw away any mail that came from Brandeis University, figuring they were only asking for money. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

If he was not a spy, if he was indeed Hiram Wallace, why had he come back after all these years to an island where he was hardly remembered except with contempt? Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The celebration of my father’s life took place at the Fourteenth Street Baptist Church, the same church my parents had been married in six years earlier. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

She was fifteen years old and furiously alive, and in a glimmer of a moment, Sarai saw her hopes both exposed and destroyed, and felt in them the echo of her own. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Here was one of those old images brought to life, or maybe a creature descended in true line through endless years from the models used by the forgotten craftsmen long ago. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

And the ones after them will, for three or four or five years; but after that they won’t. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Liyana thought he might be one or two years older than she was. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

For years after, debates raged inside the US government about Yurchenko's authenticity and over how the CIA could possibly have let him escape. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Maman and Samira were still two years ahead of me in the process and had already traded in their green cards for US passports. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Board of Education overturned eighty years of established law and centuries of custom. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The name sounded strange to me after all these years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The treatment could take up to two years—much longer than the treatment for regular TB—and the side effects were often painful for patients. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

You go along for years knowing something is wrong, then suddenly you discover that you're as transparent as air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight of them when they visit Calcutta every few years feels stranger still, six or eight weeks passing like a dream. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the stories under those headlines paid scant heed to Shady’s years of grueling labor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

“My name is Starr Carter. I’m sixteen years old.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

In the space of ten years, new railroad lines were laid, track by track, four thousand miles, sprawling east, west, south, and north from the central terminus: Chicago. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

As it turned out, we lost study privileges for four years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was seventeen years old at the time, which meant I didn’t have to take the test because I was under the age of eighteen—I would become a citizen when my parents did. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

For many years, including his stint in high school, the basement had been Myron’s bedroom. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

With permission from the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Galileo took up his new post in October 1592, when he was 28 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I find the only thing up there: the photograph of my mother at twenty-two years old, standing in the sun. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Hiding behind her skirts was a very small boy—about three or four years old—who clung to her leg like a little insect. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty years younger than Calvin, but found himself unable to keep up the pace. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somehow, he would find the courage to finish what he had started fifteen years ago, and free his people from this last vestige of their long torment. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

This is what had haunted him all those years in the temple. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

“He’s lost three and he’s only been in the Marine Corps four years. One of his crashes happened when he punched out on takeoff.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crooked, cobbled street was much altered now from the bustling place Harry had visited before his first term at Hogwarts so many years before. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I’m one hundred and one years old now. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She came from the fringe, and they brought her here, and she lived here for a couple years, then went into the city to stop the Erudite from killing the Divergent.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“I’m actually a huge fan of your blog. I’ve been a loyal reader for years.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Someday when you get past being thirteen years old, and you’re not so angry about the divorce, you’re going to thank me for just smiling back at you when you’re like this.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was what had first attracted her to him that June day two years ago in Ibadan, the kind of rainy day that wore the indigo color of dusk although it was only noon. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I sound eleven years old when I speak. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Although his education in Florence continued for another couple of years under the supervision of monks from the same order as those in Vallombrosa, he lived at home under the careful eye of his father. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

As we walked onwards, Mr. 13-04 interrogated me about the denizens of the College and how they had fared in the few years since last he had been a visitor. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

In 1623, Descartes was twenty-seven, and Blaise Pascal, who would become Descartes’s opponent, was zero years old. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

The guest list alone can ruin lives, destroy families, and create deep wounds that take years to heal. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

“Roughly two thousand years ago. The nomadic folk who roamed the foothills around the Shalda Mountains were brought together under one chieftain.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"The doctor says your disease is incurable, but you could have a remission lasting five years, even more, if you take good care of yourself and don't overdo it." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left leg was permanently damaged from an accident eleven years before, when a trolley crashed into his horse-drawn carriage. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Maybe they’ll investigate some important empirical problem that has been troubling him for years. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Drawn to words in any language, she took four years of German and five years of Latin. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It seemed to take a thousand years for Mama to fall to the ground in a crumpled heap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Gareth stood square in front of Agravaine, who was three years older than he was and could have knocked him down quite easily. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the early years of the USSR, a woman was expected to have a job and also be a mother. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

After two years of looking up to other people, I’d finally made it to the point where there was nobody to look up to but me. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He read the first Harry Potter when he was ninety years old because someone told him it was good. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

With his letter I was reminded of all the years my father spent in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

When Harriet was two years old, the whispering about freedom increased. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It is only . . . Theon, the Boy Wolf is your friend, and these Starks had you for ten years." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And in two years’ time I am going to take A-level physics and get an A grade. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Many woven cloths were hung upon the walls, and over their wide spaces marched figures of ancient legend, some dim with years, some darkling in the shade. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

And even now, seven years after her death, I cannot deny her. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But he was alive thousands of years ago!” Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I stand at the bus stop like I been doing for forty-odd years. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Mesopotamia had a legacy of astronomical observation going back at least a thousand years before the classical era. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

It astounded me that fifty years ago, even lower-income families had an entire house to themselves. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Howard had already spent three years combing the Southwest for ancient bones, crawling into rattlesnake caves and taking a pickax to rock faces. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Though she’s been dead for over three years, Grandma didn’t start visiting me like this until two years ago. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As I caressed the smooth surfaces, my mind drifted back through the years, back to my boyhood days. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four years earlier, when she had wandered in from the mountains, I hid her for a day, secretly feeding her in the basement. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Wes’s best friend, Woody, spent many of his years after high school going in and out of prison. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

At the end of a hundred years my descendants would be permitted to open this treasure trove and would be the antique kings of the world. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The meteor hit approximately fifty thousand years ago and weighed several hundred thousand tons! Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

A normal indenture was seven years, but she had to pay off the debts of her parents, and the only way she was allowed to do that was to sign up for a double indenture. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This job is what pays for my education. And in a few years, after I finish college, I’ll have a career.” The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the fishermen had been bitten by a zmeyok years ago, and the bite got infected. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

A low-lying branch almost caught Shanti in the nose, but her reflexes had been honed through years of synchronized Tae Kwon Do, and she whapped it away at the last moment. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Over and over, in the years after 1647, scientists filled long glass tubes, sealed at one end, with mercury and inverted them in baths of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The bigger ones happened before I was even four years old, so I don’t remember those. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

If we could keep Oak out of Faerie for ten years, he could grow into the person he’s going to be. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were a lot of years where we were lost, too much pain drowned in forgetting that came in convenient packages: bottles, pills, cubicles where we settled to move around papers. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

“Yes, the very one. It was not easy to keep our glamours up for so many years, but it feels good to be free of them, at least for a little while.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Two years later, in June 2012, we won a constitutional ban on mandatory life-without-parole sentences imposed on children convicted of homicides. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Although our house was one of the smaller of the forty or so houses on the island, for several years we owned the only piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Cane was blessed with ninety-three years of healthy living, and several people who attended the funeral commented, “She didn’t look a day over ninety.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

What he did was so foolish, however, that in later years it was often said that he had gone mad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My next recollection is several years later when we were living in Calif..3 Nevada? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it would be enough to maintain the family for one or at most two years, that's all. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

Undoubtedly, the political and cultural context of the drug war—particularly in the early years—encouraged the roundup. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A couple of years after the camps opened, sociologists studying the life noticed what had happened to the families. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The grass is completely gone from years of them parking there. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

For the first time in all these years, I wondered how it would feel to be part of a couple. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But now that I was two years older, I don’t know. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“So you know how we’ve been best friends for almost eleven years now?” Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

It is time to confess that I have for many years struggled with one of the lesser rules of the apostrophe. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

“HeLa cells were one of the most important things that happened to medicine in the last hundred years,” Defier said. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She said it was the strangest thing, it’s like it was broken twenty years ago and allowed to set in the “most contrary” of directions. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

And then she just felt happy, like she hadn’t felt in years. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Poppy said Abu Hamra’s family had their well closed in by Israeli soldiers a few years ago after his nephew was suspected of throwing stones at an Israeli tank. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Staring back at me is someone who looks like a younger version of Hideo, a boy who resembles how Hideo looked several years ago. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

What did you say to one another at the end of sixteen years’ solid dislike? Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A few years before, Ann had taken to slipping out of the house with a wild group that included French—wild by the standards of rural North Carolina in the 1950s, anyway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Welles was asked about Houseman during an interview in 1963, twenty-five years after the Martian broadcast, he refused to talk about his former friend. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z

The drugstore was where Edna Finch’s Mellow House used to be years back when they were girls. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

If our species has existed for a couple of million years, what is its history? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

It bothered me off and on for years. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like it’s been abandoned for years. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Now here she was, a woman getting along in years, forced to make her living among all the black scum of this wicked city. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dobrynya fought with practiced movements and the ease of a man who spent years learning his art. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Seven years later, when the North Korean government launched a disastrous currency reform that impoverished and enraged tens of thousands of traders, the news was reported within hours by Free North Korea Radio. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Hubble was born in 1889, ten years after Einstein, in a small Missouri town on the edge of the Ozarks and grew up there and in Wheaton, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

My breath hiccups, knowing I don’t have to live my life on Sagan wondering if she was stuck in stasis another four hundred years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

She called him Isaac because in the Bible Sarah gets pregnant when she’s like a hundred years old and she’s not supposed to be having children and that’s what she names her son. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

They had years and years of experience between them, but they still had a lot to learn before they would be ready. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z

I guess he likes to check that book out with me because I been alive for every year of this century, and even a few years from the century before that. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first two years I'd spent wandering the streets by myself were lonely ones. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

"Well enough for a man of my years, my lord," he replied, "yet I do tire easily, I fear." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Eight years later, here they are, with a baby, no less. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The worst drought in ten years, they say. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

By the end of the 1800s, only a quarter of the indentures sailed back to India after their five years were over. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Interesting" was Walter's euphemism for odd people, and having worked for hundreds of people throughout the county over the years, he'd encountered no shortage of “interesting" people. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The passage of a few years and the development of even more poisonous insecticides served to increase the hazard from treated seed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But, you say, it’s hard to stay popular for forty years. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And thanks at least in part to those technologies, we’re seeing the tentative spread of democratic institutions in areas that have lived for years under dictatorships or near-dictatorships. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

She wore skirts when everyone else wore jeans and had a singing voice so clear and powerful that she’d end up touring years later as a backup singer for Roberta Flack. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Kabuo recognized Carl’s neat hand in things, his way of establishing a rigid order, the force that had driven him, years before, to keep his tackle box shipshape. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Singer had always greatly enjoyed this game, and years before he had tried to teach it to Antonapoulos. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Not just any school, Jude. A school that will let you shout from the rooftops every single day for four years. Don’t you two want to shout from the rooftops?” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And it struck Obinze that, a few years ago, they were attending weddings, now it was christenings and soon it would be funerals. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

During those chaotic years, as the basic functioning of Kim Jong Il’s government stalled, think tank experts in the West were writing books with doomsday titles such as The End of North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“But he looks “That’s what happens when you spend your golden years in a place where oxygen and bacteria can’t exist, like the underside of our bog. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Thomas Jones kept the secrets of the pine thicket until, almost twenty years later, he told his tale to a writer. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

My first impression is that he seems like he’s about thirty-five years old. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She had been gone then but two years, perhaps, and could. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Oui,” you tell him, utilizing the summation of almost three years of high school French. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Despite having to deal with my anxiety issues, in the two years since making the US National Women’s Saber Team, I was doing more winning than losing. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

I'd spent years wondering what challenges awaited me inside the First Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

And in the years he had seen much of Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But one day, after we d been at the camp for about three years, we heard the megaphones, and it wasn’t the usual thing. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In between these two low points of his birth and his success lay thirty-one dismal years of loneliness and frustration. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Larson was happier than he had been for many years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

If Naheed didn’t say something, the whole class was going to start looking this way, and just because they had seen Naheed’s head covering for three years didn’t mean they understood. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Perhaps in twenty years his Korean words will creep out like mine, the notes uncertain, tentative. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

They cannot have survived three years of starvation and the loss of Keav and Pa only to be taken now! First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the prophecy made at Half-Blood Hill, what seemed like a million years ago. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My mother must have felt the same way, because in the years following his death she often got sick. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

They’d spent virtually all their nineteen years on the periphery of various things—families, teams, churches, school cliques—and had developed a profound suspicion of hierarchies, authorities, institutions, bureaucracies, and anything connected with them. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m not too old. That is exactly what I am. I grow in years, but some things, they stay the same,” he says. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

They were fourteen years old; geoducks were important. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Vulgarly put, but what comfort, what untroubled years might flow from these cheap vats. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“The Manderlys are no northmen, not down deep. ’Twas no more than nine hundred years ago when they came north, laden down with all their gold and gods. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It had been almost two years sailing through interplanetary space. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Howard worked at Clovis for four years, each time staffing the field crews with a mix of sunburned locals in boots and jeans and well-tailored Ivy League college students on vacation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

He had been stricken with typhoid fever during his first year of teaching, and Ellen Creighton had patiently nursed him back to health with the skill she had learned over the years. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who had been champion for eleven years, since he was twenty-four. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

At this time, around 400 million years ago, there was a sufficient canopy to allow life out of the water and onto the land. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not even three years have passed since a brown girl named Ruby Bridges walked into an all-white school. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

If I had known I wouldn’t be back in the next eighty years, I probably wouldn’t of let myself sleep right through. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

You will recover to spend the next seventeen years consumed in a battle with him—a battle you will lose. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

I went to bed feeling utterly conflicted and, for the first time in years, I was scared for us. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Everything they had, rested on a few minutes in a library years ago. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

An eccentric nobleman of my acquaintance, some years ago, quietly bought a castle without telling his wife. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

How would you like to be King of the Planet for eight glorious years, and then suddenly get demoted to Vice-King? Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There we have an opinion that overturns three hundred and seventy-five years of critical appreciation. Is there a particular reason that you find it ‘stupid’?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the years ahead, there would be critical moments in which his pursuit of image conflicted with his horse’s interests. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

China had had writing for at least 900 years, and metal tools for at least 1,500 years, and had just invented the world’s first cast-iron production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He never forgot that, and finally, years later, he understood what it was about white men and Indian women: the disgrace of Indian women who went with them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

But God felt very far away, and I already had a stack of letters to God that I’d written ever since I was four years old. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

If you were sentenced to eight years, you would generally be classified as D for the first two years, C for the next two, B for the following two, and A for the last two. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had started learning karate when he was six years old. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

They had known each other for more than fifteen years, and had spent their summers in proximity, but in all that time they had exchanged only a handful of sentences. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even fifteen years after his death there was only one key available for late workers. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

In a few years, some of the appellate court judges would be attacked and replaced in partisan judicial elections by candidates who complained about the court's rulings in death penalty cases. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

And for the first time in nine years, I start to cry. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The countless years had filled them with pride and rooted wisdom, and with malice. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two years after my mother was killed by a dead horse, when I was just beginning to walk again, my father married a pediatric nurse named Tracy Snow. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Among the five thousand men held there, the average sentence is 89.9 years. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I met Felicia on the beach when we were both six years old. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are told that for the first seven years of his life he lived almost entirely on milk and milk products, plus fruit, with ‘no Flesh in the least agreeing with his weak Constitution’. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

It was a random, bristly beard, and some of the bristles were white, even though Billy was only twenty-one years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for three years, whenever he said “gwagala,” his family knew that he wanted to hear those pretty sounds made with voices and instruments. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I couldn’t even imagine what two years away from Dad would feel like. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

How could you let a kid stay in school that many years—grades one through five—and he can’t read? Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My life has been for many years in a process of dissolution and it seems to me that now, finally, it is time for me to do the honorable thing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ged marveled how one who had lived nineteen years could be so carefree. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

You go to school, work for fifty years, then you die. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But boarding the train it is impossible not to think of the afternoon, two years ago, they’d met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“When I walked away last time, more than seventeen years ago, I never looked back. I just kept walking.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many thanks are owed to the above mentioned for their roles in what has been, for the past few years now, an obsession and a second life that I never expected to live. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

He sat back there drinking, an old man who’d been drunk for years. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

No matter who entered the competition— professional bakers, famous chefs with exclusive restaurants— none of their Talents were able to match Cady’s, not for five years running. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her older sister Juju, who’s been taking care of Char since their parents died two years back, has got all kinds of stuff at her house. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s been a good relationship we’ve had over the last several years,” he joked, “but it’s over now. I’m going back to my wife.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

His face was becoming more angular and the great blue eyes of his early years were darkened by shifting lights of gray and green. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sounds of sweeping and cleaning out, and a moment later he appeared, his hands full of tops and marbles and old dusty kites and junk collected through the years. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

On Mars, and elsewhere in the solar system, we see features that could not be produced today, landscapes carved hundreds of millions or billions of years ago when the planetary climate was probably very different. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For her husband, she knew, was a mystery to her, and had been ever since he’d returned from his days as a soldier nine years before. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Half the couples, I was told, split up at some point in the fifteen years after their discussion was filmed. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Three years later a Croatian seismologist named Andrija Mohorovičić was studying graphs from an earthquake in Zagreb when he noticed a similar odd deflection, but at a shallower level. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were red and blurry around the edges, as if she’d been sleeping for a thousand years. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Lina remembered having creamed corn once, as a thrilling treat, when she was five years old. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Give them fifty years, and all that equality rot is gone. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

At eleven years old, death is more unreal than frightening. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I supposed to feel inexperienced in jungle ways? I covered Asia for three years,” the redhead said, and smiled. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

There’s no question it was unlikely to have happened five years ago.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

So he decided to act on advice he had been resisting for years: he outlined his speech, tailored it to his audience, and memorized what he wanted to say. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

She is forty-eight, older than Claire, but she looks about ten years younger. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Even though Mr. Larson had not done much day-to- day teaching for a number of years, quite a bit of learning happened in room 145 anyway. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

It was cozy, filled with the accumulated small possessions of several years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mama and Papa had told Laney that Mr. Jeet had had a stroke two years ago, which meant that he sounded and looked a little different than he used to. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

He watched the sky over the distant Black Mountains the way Josiah had many years before, because sometimes when the rain finally came, it was from the southwest. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It may be for years, it may be forever . The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had not been back to Africa since I was twelve years old, but when you have encountered Africa in childhood, it becomes a section of your mind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Breniz knew that people charged with smuggling can spend years in jail. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

She sings in a salsa duo with her sister, Thaimi, who is fourteen years older, and spends a great deal of time with family and friends across the Delaware River in New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

"You ought to try Armstrong—quite a young man—but so clever—Pam had been to all sorts of people for years and he put his finger on the trouble at once!" And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during that first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As the years passed and the town developed, a quick solution to the water and mud problem was needed. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, his brother had become eligible to join the Sons of the Six, the city’s elite warriorship. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

In addition, Anthony had an extensive collection of articles and memorabilia that she had collected over the years and stored in scrapbooks, trunks, and boxes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

His mother had died when he was just three years old, and he had struggled with drugs and alcohol before he decided to enlist. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

But I’ve built up years of code on my avatar, programming myself for just this kind of grab. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He reached out and took a rag from the bed-heap—a goat-hide, it might have been years ago, but it was now all tatters and black grease. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Figgins surmised that Folsom had been inhabited fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, which meant that Clovis must be a little before that. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I’d had years of staring at ceilings from my bedroom to the ICU, and so I’d long ago found the most hurtful ways to imagine my own illness. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

As was customary in their nineteen years of marriage, he left the grits on his plate untouched, an unexpressed but articulate declaration, rooted in geography, that the society he married into had not assimilated him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I spent thirty-three years of my life depriving men of their freedom.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my mother was nine years old, she told my gran that she didn’t want to live with her anymore. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

For the first time in years, people cared for me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Almost like toys abandoned in the woods for years, recently discovered by the next generation of kids ready to play war. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Her tone the same, as though she had not wounded him, left him bleeding for more than five years. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Two years before Margaret Draper retired, the district reorganized its school system and sent sixth graders to middle school instead of elementary. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light in the ad box was dead, and the sun-faded poster was for a zombie show that had gone off the air three years before. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Though only three years old, he had already run forty-three races, far more than most horses contest in their entire careers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was dead before I remember, but George Hamilton told me about it many years later and his eyes filled with tears and his voice croaked in the telling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chet would never tell anyone this in a million years, but despite being the bravest person he knew, he was afraid of dogs. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

“Many years I think about you,” I whisper. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He passed the gun over to Rick, who inspected it expertly, by way of years of experience. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

All the magicians on earth—at least everyone who knew what they were doing—had perished five hundred years earlier when the volcano erupted. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He hasn’t for years, not since he was a young man starting out. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But it was as though during my walk I had been getting used to the idea that years had passed for these people since I had seen them last. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They slowly honed their hunting skills, and began going after large animals around 400,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who has not been quick in the four years she has known him. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

We waited covertly in the shadows until there was a gap in the traffic and then clumped up the old wooden steps, worn smooth by years of traffic. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then, as early as 1.5 years old, children begin to process the information on the screen, and then a higher order of thinking gets involved, Dr. Anderson has found. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

The issue has been with us for years. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The owner of a heating and air-conditioning business, he had a big walrus-y mustache and sleepy eyes that made him look older than his sixty-eight years. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Seven years ago we all went through the flames; and the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“They’ve lived here for nearly thirty years. My father put away every cent he ever made.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I’ve been doing more thinking than I was a couple of years ago. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She was ... Elza, it might have been. Or Ella. It was six years ago she died. I have owned so many slaves, Your Grace.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Over the years nine children were born, four boys and five girls, and with each birth another quarter-section was added to the ranch, and that makes eleven quarter-sections, or seventeen hundred and sixty acres. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Let me drink openly as early as twelve years old, because she figured I’d outgrow it, which didn’t really happen. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Two men and two women, wagoneers, rough from years of being outside and smiling to be spending a night out of the wind. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“But Aunt Sissy, he’s been married seven years and it’s settled by now—whether he’s happy or not.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a gentle, graceful way of floating around, from years of ballet lessons. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clara Harris and Henry Rathbone married, but eighteen years later he went insane and murdered her, using a gun and knife, the same type of weapons Booth carried the night he killed Abraham Lincoln. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Geographical knowledge in the classical period of fifth to fourth centuries bce—the times of Socrates, Plato, Pericles, Sophocles, and Aristotle—was not much broader than in Homer’s day, four hundred years earlier. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z

“Even if they can come up with something, it may take months, even years, before they can implement it,” the scientist replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Sources close to the Hipwell investigation” claim an allegation has been made that Megan “may have been involved in the unlawful killing of her own child” ten years ago. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was twenty-seven years old now, and there were days when all I wanted was to feel complete. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

"I was named in the light of the Seven at the sept on Horn Hill, as my father was, and his father, and all the Tarlys for a thousand years." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

TimeStar said, “I’m really from twenty years in the future, Otto. Not two hundred. I’m you at the age of thirty-one.” The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice shook so at first that she was hard to understand, but she got out that it happened when she was twelve years old. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Her voice was sharper than she meant, ground as it was on three years of unspoken anger. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“And it hasn’t been seen for thirteen years,” said Mr. Weasley quietly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Scads of new laborers were needed to churn out nearly eighteen thousand engines in two years. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The interim government was going to hold the first free elections in thirty years. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Several years earlier, the US government had convicted Abel of running a network of Soviet spies in the United States. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

As a Xhosa, I count my years as a man from the date of my circumcision. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

On his drive back to the ranch Adam found that he was noticing things he had not seen for years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The oldest were men grown, seventeen and eighteen years from the day of their naming. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Not surprisingly, it took years to solve the riddle of the orbit of Mars, with Kepler moving in stages away from the idea of a perfectly circular orbit centred on the Sun. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

I have never been outside the state of California in the nearly seventeen years that my atoms and molecules have been stuck together, walking around and calling themselves Finn. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Petrified seashells. Millions of years ago, even before the time of the gods, when only Gaia and Ouranos reigned, this land was under water. It was part of the sea.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Over a period of several years I doggedly sifted through the scientific literature, hoping to find a clue that would explain this conundrum. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old dog's feet had barely touched the ground before he sprang again for that terrible throat grip, springing as if the years had dropped away and he were back in his fighting prime. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been a young girl when she was washed from the sea to the place where she had lived for years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He’s most likely robbing the bank as a payback on the world for winning the ugliness prize at his local fete three years running. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He's eleven years younger than I am, and by the time he reached high school, the rest of us had all left home. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

She herself had been in Washington for many years. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

When he agreed to move out of the working-class neighborhood where he had been happy for years and to resettle in the middle-class apartment, he had said the same thing. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't do this myself for all kinds of reasons, not the least of which is that you have to be eighteen years old to even legally operate the equipment. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

The case was so important that the government’s lawyers had taken two years and $500,000 to prepare. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The years she lost with her father had Terryl thinking about being ,~ victim from a different perspective. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

There was no sign anybody had been there in a hundred years. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Almost two years had passed since we had arrived in the U.S., and I was still marveling at the size of this country, its vastness. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Neda was mature beyond her years and had a maternal side even as a child. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She was half­watching a PBS special on the plight of wolves in Minnesota, half-correcting essays from her summer-school class—she’d been teaching at the same school now for six years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after I published my first autobiographical essay seven years ago, my mother wrote me a letter pleading with me never again to write about our family life. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Amanda Wilkinson, whose face was always pinched up like she was smelling something real bad; and Sweetie Pie Thomas, who was only five years old and still mostly a baby. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, how the plan had taken a slow shape in his numbed mind, until that day three years ago when he had met Pikes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, nearly two years ago, Maribel had insisted on painting her fingernails black. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Relief that Stella gets to wake up a few hours from now and have at least five more wonderful years, filled with whatever her to-do list has on it. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

"It's not so funny. It would be more scientific to try to define the case. It has been developing some three hundred years —" "Define? Hell, man, we know all that." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most Haitians, who trace their ancestry to West Africa, have been exploited for 250 years, no matter what government was in power. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

“How many years until moving cities becomes insufficient? What is the solution beyond that? Changing our names? I...I do not enjoy being forced into such deceptions.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One half is clear for my mom’s car, but the other side is stacked with boxes of props from her shows over the years. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

Five years ago we were on our way back to Afghanistan from the United States. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

About a billion years after the Big Bang, the distribution of matter in the universe had become a little lumpy, perhaps because the Big Bang itself had not been perfectly uniform. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He then added, “You walk funny”—a reference, perhaps, to Fischer’s athletic swagger from years of tennis, swimming, and basketball. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Still, the strikers held out for two years, while a national boycott of Marx & Haas Clothing pressured the company to sign a contract with the union for improved pay and working conditions. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

For an illiterate immigrant who came to New York years ago with nothing but $100 in his pocket and a willingness to work etched on his heart, could any words have been sweeter to say? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I don’t even like Batman, but Jamie Merrick gave it to me when I was six years old, and sometimes holding it makes me feel safe. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I have it not, I have it no more! It was, many years ago, stolen from me!” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They had played together for two years, and they had worked to make sure the Under Fifteens could continue, against the odds. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Armistead heard once more that sweet female voice, unbearable beauty of the unbearable past: it may be for years, it may be forever. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think we can all agree that I look extremely good for being 659 years old. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

I explain to her that these have been my companions all these years, the constants from day to day, the stories I can always return to even if mine is always changing. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Lancelot was always strong. The years don’t seem to touch him.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a dark gray basalt, and she used to hold it to her forehead, and it would immediately make her feel better: two and a half million years, right there against her skin. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genuine organism—with two billion years of the pressure to live and evolve hagriding it—could never have reconciled itself to. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

But again, although most of the seeds would germinate after one year, after two years the percentage would decline, and after three or four they would not do well at all. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Beginning in the 1960s, crime rates rose in the United States for a period of about ten years. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“I happen to know that this map was confiscated by Mr. Filch many years ago. Yes, I know it’s a map,” he said as Harry and Ron looked amazed. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But hiking has always been a marginal pursuit in America, and within a few years the AT was once more largely forgotten except among a few diehards and eccentrics. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I kept up my overall GPA above a 3.5 all four years. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

How did a boy only three years older than me take the world by storm? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A prosperous city-state on the east side of the island of Sicily, Syracuse had been muddling along for years under a succession of tyrants. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Two years had done little to pacify the San Franciscan hostility for the automobile. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite Annie waiting for him, despite his first loss in four years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, my dad had been working at that diner. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Now, for the first time in his twelve years of life, Jonas felt separate, different. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Papa’s life ended at Manzanar, though he lived for twelve more years after getting out. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Said Mr. Turner, “I have, at long last, recognized you. Some years ago you played a devilish ugly Tartini article for a subscription concert.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

And though she would live the first fifteen years of her life within walking distance of Herat, Mariam would never see this storied tree. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It was this child that I thought was an omen—a little kid about ten years old who was sitting right up on the railing and leaning against the glass of the bat cage. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

I knew New Orleans, I have over the years had many friends there, thoughtful, gentle people, with a tradition of kindness and courtesy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I was nine years old, our neighbor Mrs. Miles told everyone she was moving away because she couldn’t stand the smell of curry at all hours of the day. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Conservatives found they could finally justify an all-out war on an “enemy” that had been racially defined years before. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But on the black land twenty minutes down the road, the soil has been decimated by years of overfarming and overgrazing. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Aii, Lena,” she had said after that dinner so many years ago, “your future husband have one pock mark for every rice you not finish.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some choose to go to France because many Vietnamese moved there when North and South divided years ago. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s something I noticed a few years ago. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t think you would. You were six or seven years old,” my mom says. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

She was only fifty-four years old, but she looked much older. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

After nearly six years of operating at full capacity, there began to be slow periods, nights when the place was only two-thirds full, or just half. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He would spend two years as a companion to the captain, a man named Robert FitzRoy. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Who care for house? No rent, my people no eat. So I stay. Like a watchdog with family away. Ten years now, I am watching. Ten years, without my Nonnie.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

I stare at the girls with envy, and think about waiting another five years until I can see Chou again. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already for thirty-five years he had not stopped talking and almost nothing of fundamental value had emerged. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

By the time I get to Finch’s neighborhood, I’m cruising along smoothly, like someone who’s been driving for years. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

For ten years, Mother had been the primary breadwinner, while continuing to cook meals, clean the house, do the laundry, and I had never once heard her express anything like resentment. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Well, let me tell you, those few days felt like a few years to me. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I was about two years old when I first started hanging out at Mrs. V’s house. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

A few years earlier maybe, if we ran into someone we were pleased to see, we’d put on that sort of look. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly ten years had passed since the Dursleys had woken up to find their nephew on the front step, but Privet Drive had hardly changed at all. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

A maester must go where he is sent, so Cressen had come here with his lord some twelve years past, and he had served, and served well. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She hasn’t seen how the silence and tension have been smothering us for years. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

But hey, the Brooklyn Bridge might be here for eight hundred years. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

In his old fighter’s heart fluttered a sense of elation he had not felt for years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even with slash-and-burn, ecologists say, the forest can take as much as a hundred years to return completely to its previous state. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Every day gets us closer to twenty years from now, right? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Well, about six weeks ago, she heard the name Gatsby for the first time in years. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It’s been five years since we last saw her in the flesh. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

He was a boy, like me, maybe one or two years older. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Each wave grew larger and larger as the camp expanded, until, three years ago, they’d run out of space completely. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

After working on it for three years and seven months, he had sent the manuscript to his publisher in January 1842. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Four years afterward, a traveler noted in his diary that the Nermernuh lived in fear of disease because they had been recently struck by smallpox—tenuous but suggestive evidence. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She remembered her last day here, when she was ten years old. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She signaled to the maid who had come with her, a young girl at most only four or five years older than Meggie herself. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I wanted to strangle Mr. D. It wasn’t fair Zeus had sent him here to dry out as camp director for a hundred years. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

She stayed with the Friedmans for seven years, until her early death from cancer. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The fact that some African Americans have experienced great success in recent years does not mean that something akin to a racial caste system no longer exists. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

They’d mined tin in Cornwall for three thousand years until one day the tin had run out. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

All these years she had been secretly proud of her calm, controlled behavior when Sula was uncontrollable, her compassion for Sula’s frightened and shamed eyes. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

So I excused myself on the grounds of pain and fatigue, as I often had over the years when seeing Kaitlyn or any of my other friends. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The residents were delighted; for years they had all brushed their teeth with stored water poured from mugs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I remember how Flossie used to chase him years ago when he was washing the horse. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been a dairy farmer for years, he said, before switching to corrections thirteen years earlier, succumbing to economic inevitability. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re kids again, finishing what we started all those years ago. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was on such a holiday that Robert Fumulani, the holy father of Malawian reggae music, came to sing at Dowa District Hall, and my father—then twenty-two years old—was determined to go. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

It had come to him one day three years before how immersed she was in her own existence. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“If it hadn’t been for this place, I’d have run barking mad years ago,” the bodyguard said. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Portia’s butcher knife was stuck in his belt, and on the wide, dark road he looked so small that it was like he was five years old instead of seven. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She tried to get Lily to treat it, but Lily balked, saying she hadn’t practiced medicine in fifteen years and that she had never practiced that kind of medicine. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Indeed, all that happened as Roman power retreated from western and northern Europe was that its civilisation relocated to Constantinople, which continued to be a place of cultural magnificence for hundreds of years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She has bad-image flashes that come from years of Gina spouting stuff that might go wrong, and flashes that come from real stuff that did. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I would never in a million years tell her it was Aibileen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Pippin marvelled at the amount that the Lord seemed to know about a people that lived far away, though it must, he thought, be many years since Denethor himself had ridden abroad. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

“They used to have something similar to apartheid years ago, in what they call the southern states, but Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the others changed most of that.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yet it is clear that Hobbits had, in fact, lived quietly in Middle-earth for many long years before other folk became even aware of them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, even as Finn and Emma laughed and laughed and laughed, Mom had tried to explain that she wasn’t really worried about kidnappers. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was fifty-six years old, of medium height and medium build, with smooth, straight brown hair; a good-looking man. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From that unfortunate expression came the appellation of Widge, which stuck to me for years, like pitch. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I remember to start with that day in Sacramento—a California now nearly thirty years past—when I first entered a classroom, able to understand some fifty stray English words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the years went on, Volpe assumed numerous additional roles at Truman. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Half of Gryffindor House seemed to have turned up, from first years who were nervously clutching a selection of the dreadful old school brooms, to seventh years who towered over the rest, looking coolly intimidating. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

But Jus knows the effects of trauma are real: he watched his dad lash out at his mom for years. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The war itself, the years of losing, had turned the house into a clean, swept, airy skeleton. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked around me at the community of dead people that Uncle Allagash, Uncle Edisto, and then Daddy had buried for so many years. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Four years later, Dorothy Vaughan and her twelve fellow teachers were welcoming 301 education-hungry youngsters, urged along by parents who wanted more for their children than a life of work in the tobacco factories. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The same thing that happened twenty years earlier at Cambridge: he got the rest of the world to see things his way. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

And what of the scientific analysis that said that the surface of the Getty kouros could only have aged over many hundreds or thousands of years? Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I am ten years too old to have my mother still picking out clothes for me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He tries to put the love he has always felt for Lourdes above the resentment he has harbored all these years. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

At three years of age, he prattles like my father did, but I attend to every lisping word he speaks. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And it would be a shame and an embarrassment, after so many years of learning, even to think of quitting. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Putting his hand on my shoulder, he said to the store clerk, “He’s all of ten years, but the boy crushed as much cane as I did.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is three years old, his wide eyes open to the world, his too-big ears already listening. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Over the years, many families had called those houses home. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Three years earlier, before Christine’s parents had enrolled her as a student at the Allen School, another headline-making event had intruded upon her daily life. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

They returned to their homes and families and, for years to come, whispered secret tales of their deeds during the great manhunt. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every four years, the Twelve Towns had a magic tournament—the Golden Frog Games, where the towns would compete in everything from toad racing to spell casting to enchanted dressmaking. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was part of that disorienting feeling she’d had for years, that feeling that everyone except her had been issued a handbook. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

For the rest of his life he was thoroughly cosmopolitan, travelling widely, living for twenty years in Weimar, and for six years near Rome, where he took holy orders. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He'd trained for this for years, and he did his job extraordinarily well. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after years of bumbling, potentially crooked investigations into the Osage murders, White needed to weed out half facts and build an indubitable narrative based on what he called an “unbroken chain of evidence.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the next hundred years, the population of most southern areas declined by at least three-quarters. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

And now began a journey that was to last, with some interruptions, for almost two years. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Last years classes, gone. Last years records, gone. Sports seasons, gone. A quarter of those Fullbrookers are gone too.” Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His tours have been so sporadic in recent years that the lack of performances passes mostly without notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“I can’t live in this country twenty-five years and not have some of it rub off on me,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Angel is upset because she won’t be reunited with her sister for another seven years, when Skylar will be reincarnated as the son of some family in Australia. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I took a deep personal pride in having had something to do with that—at least in some cases, years before. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The demon never found the baby, though he searched for years and years. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

“Our mother told us Aunt Consuelo came here twenty years ago.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Because of the limited variety of wild starting material suitable for plant domestication, even Africa’s earliest agriculture may have begun several thousand years later than that of the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

He thought that everything would go well and that I would get off with a few years in prison or at hard labor. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I had not seen my mother for something like seven years, and I knew we would have to adjust to one another. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The buzzing occasioned by his action would not diminish for years. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Charles’s absence would hit Emma again and again over the years, painfully, but for now she had a family to take care of and a funeral to consider. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mary Fernandez started a photo album for me containing the pathetically few pictures I had managed to accumulate over the past nine years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

“About once every ten years,” said Griphook with a rather nasty grin. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The girls were twins, about seven or eight years old. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“What I had in my safe at Rand,” Ellsberg would later recall, “was seven thousand pages of documentary evidence of lying, by four presidents and their administrations over twenty-three years.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Interesting. That spellwork. I recognize it. But my, my, it has been years.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

Because Zeni was under twenty- one years of age, it was necessary for me to give my legal consent for her to marry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Joe had been brought to court and adjudicated on a single occasion, when he was twelve years old. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-three years old then, as Joe remembered, and dying. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad says you can go to community college for two years and then transfer, which saves a lot of money in the end. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in years, I noticed my half-finished yellow paint job. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Altogether in the last 100 million years it has reversed itself about two hundred times, and we don’t have any real idea why. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

All of my life it’s been synonymous with Jay but for years it hasn’t been easy to say. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The faded note she’d found at her locker all those years ago, asking her to meet at the park. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

After graduating with a degree in mathematics, Big Dub moved North, where he spent the next few years teaching at small colored schools in Virginia and Maryland. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had never known . . . never, in four years, bothered to find out. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

For eighteen years, his off-and-on actions have made an impact in my life. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Mauve is fifteen years older than Vincent and a well-known painter, a member of the Hague school of artists. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The name had special meaning for me, for during all my years in prison hope never left me — and now it never would. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were all two years older than Erlan, with dark straight hair and dark eyes. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

They did a great deal to liven up the atmosphere of the lab, where experiments usually lasted several months to years. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

He seemed to grow in years and stature. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

But it’s kind of funny to think what matters now and what mattered to me years ago. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Ochoa-Perez, an exquisite embassy wife, was very former, I knew, because Jack hadn’t been on outside assignment in several years at least. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d spent the last ten years of his life here, this temple was like a home, but that only made it slightly easier to maneuver through in a crisis. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Judith is at least twenty years Mallory’s senior, but both their smiles are as glittering white as the crown brooches on their cardigans. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

He was a stocky youth of twenty years, earnest and homely, with a wide nose and a shock of thick brown hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Zimbabwe had signed a peace treaty with them years before, but it seemed no one could let bygones be bygones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s right, after I won the Golden Gloves no one couldn’t tell me I wasn’t going to be middleweight champ within two, three years tops.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“That was when I was like nine years old,” I say. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

It is a thousand years old, roughly contemporaneous with a report of an organ at Winchester Cathedral that boasted an extraordinary four hundred pipes. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For four years nobody knew where he was. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother too views this as an adventure: she says she hasn’t looked into that trunk for years, she has no idea what’s in there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

All those stars millions of light years away shilling down on me—me glued to a minor planet spinning around its own gigantic sum. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

But that day almost two years ago, Kara talked me into the red skirt. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“It is my duty to hear out a female warrior before I sentence her or her allies to death. That is the Amazon way. Or have your years in the Underworld muddled your memory, Otrera?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

All this is presently experimental but in the few years since work began on chemo- sterilants the project has grown enormously. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Artemis’s search had begun two years previously when he first became interested in surfing the Internet. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was nothing Pearl hadn’t thought about herself over the years, but hearing it spoken aloud, from someone else’s mouth, made it feel more urgent. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Like every other animal on this planet, we’re descended from a single-celled organism that lived millions of years ago. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He attended the King’s School in Canterbury in the early 1580s, at the same time as Christopher Marlowe, who was two years older than him, then studied at Cambridge. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t tell us where she was going on those days, and it was years before I learned that she went to clean other people’s houses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

We also know that it reverses itself every 500,000 years or so on average, though that average hides a huge degree of unpredictability. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

I caught a girl’s eyes, a few years younger than me, hair and clothing rumpled and dirty. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“If I lose again this year, the shame will be unbearable. Three years in a row?” Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

It will take about three hundred million years for them to collide. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess what I’ll miss most are the wasted opportunities to live my life and the lost potential to make great friends with everyone I sat next to for four years. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He has not seen his wife for two years. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The resulting two societies lost awareness even of each other’s existence and did not come into contact again for many centuries, perhaps for as long as 500 years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was only eleven years since the trail’s completion, by 1948 it was already subsiding into oblivion. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

They were the first British prisoners to return home, almost three years since most of them had been trapped during the opening days of the Korean War. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Egg-laying hens, dairy cows and draught animals are sometimes allowed to live for many years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We haven’t had any batteries in, I don’t know, four or five years,” Luke explained. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

It would be easy to let the sadness win, knowing they stayed here all those years later, hoping and waiting and wishing to see her again. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it was easy, and after years of being convinced she would never have a lover she began to fall effortlessly into affairs. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he was seven years old, he rode his bike into a ditch and broke a rib. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Given time — time not in years but in millennia — life adjusts, and a balance has been reached. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

Plato said that Egyptian art had not changed in 10,000 years. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I thought she was unreasonable to hold me accountable for policies I was opposing,” he said many years later. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"There's more maps. If I had time to search . . . everything's a jumble. I could .set it all to order, though; I know I could, but it would take time . . . well, years, in truth." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They are about two years younger than us. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-two years later, rangers from the National Park Service would find that same guitar on the backseat of a yellow Datsun abandoned near the shore of Lake Mead. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the years she had watched Gabe grow from a mischievous boy into this quiet young man who now seemed to have a mission she didn't understand. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I did not know then that it would be the only residence that would be entirely mine for many, many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought maybe two hundred years later, scientists would find two boy skeletons stuck in the top of that tree. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

As we got closer to Montauk, she seemed to grow younger, years of worry and work disappearing from her face. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It’s now 175 years since Sing Sing was built—way past time we tried some new ideas. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You are ten or fifteen years younger than I am. What could you see to attract you in a man like me?” 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It had three rooms and no rugs, and I’d look at the single photograph she had, of a white girl she told me she looked after for twenty years over in Port Gibson. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I moved up to the front of the line to join my classmates who had also made the California Scholarship Federation every semester for four years. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It seems like a million years ago now, and David a million miles away. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Turning to General Johnson, the president asked, “What is your reaction to Ho’s statement he is ready to fight for twenty years?” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

In all the years I’d known him, we’d never had a conversation that hadn’t been a sham to lure him through a door with a bucket of ice water balanced on top. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

My mother had built it, piece by piece, a couple of years ago when she was getting some new level of certification in computer programming. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

It consisted in falsifying a series of production reports of two years ago in such a way as to cast discredit on a prominent member of the Inner Party who was now under a cloud. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When he was released from the hospital two weeks later, Ophelia sent him and Didi to a hotel in southern France, Farmer’s first real vacation in years. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

It was too much, on top of the baby’s death, to think that his years of work could be upstaged. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In twenty-four years of representing Texas in the House and Senate, Johnson’s focus had always been on domestic policy. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Our mother died two years before we watched Bambi so he should’ve known that mothers die and that they don’t ever come back again no matter how much you cry or call for them. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was almost fourteen years old, had never handled a tennis racket in my life and knew absolutely nothing about the rules of the game. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Teenage boys, it seemed, were considered men, for boys who looked to be only a few years older than Salva were joining the men’s group. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hence they must have inexorable explanations, ones more basic than mere details concerning who happened to win some battle or develop some invention on one occasion a few thousand years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You slept in a lamp for a hundred years and that’s the best you could come up with?” shouted back Aru. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

To think that she knew Orion three or four thousand years ago . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I remember that night, two years ago, as we sat at the kitchen table and I pretended that I hadn’t heard my mom tell her to enter the pageant. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

If the war isn’t over by September, I won’t go back to school, since I don’t want to be two years behind. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Despite all his ideas—all the things he’d pitched to Minho—he wasn’t eager to change how things had been done for the last two years. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Yeah, this feels far worse than the evil eye B-Cubed threw my way after ending my season three years ago. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

That was almost thirty years ago, and these two restaurants had made him rich, one of Westfield’s leading citizens. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all the years she had lived alone here it had never troubled her to know that only her books awaited her behind all the doors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Water cascades from a hose, making rainbows against the sunlight like it did six years ago, right before bullets took Natasha. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

That took ten years off my mom and I got restricted for another month. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And if you look even more closely at those long years of preparation, you’ll find an experience that, in the context of hockey players and Bill Joy and world-class violinists, sounds awfully familiar. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“No! He has no idea. And I can’t tell him—it would wreck everything. I don’t even understand how it happened. But it’s been almost two years.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was one of these, a small, sturdy man, who had found Dustfinger four years ago in a town up in the north, just as he was about to give his last show. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

At fifty years old and many years into her second career, she reinvented herself as a computer programmer. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For years, the girls and I had shared Barack with his constituents, and now there were more than 300 million of them. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“It was seven years ago I met him for the first time.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to cleanse them and make them feel part of the Church blah blahdeblah blah blah, but that was about a million years ago. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Word had it he started to talk in song years ago, when AM radio broke his heart by going all talk. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

If you look at the floors of an old tenement, you’ll see layers upon layers of linoleum from different years. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had no problem finding multiple minor-league white team lineups from the same years. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

After two years in the saddle, it seemed that Pollard was going to make it. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took two years of Spanish in high school and can say only a handful of phrases, but I recognize that word. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

When at last they gave up, nineteen years later, they had drilled to a depth of 12,262 meters, or about 7.6 miles. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cubbies hold food rations from floor to ceiling, enough for all of the Monitors for hundreds of years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He refused to explain why he was locked up in the camp’s underground prison, but he did say he had been there for many years and that he sorely missed the sun. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

From that point on, for three years, the man used his position and good reputation to groom Linton, isolate him, intensifying the abuse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

She was only eight—just two years older—but a good head taller. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had only occurred to me a couple of years ago, when a friend of Navid’s had come over for dinner, that not everyone cared about food like this. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Two years prior, I had scored the highest on a national placement test in my school. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"This was only a few years ago. What if those impulses have grown with her, rather than diminished?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

After years of working solo, she had convinced the Treasury Department to fund a larger unit. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Ever since he was about five years old, Mike Horan had been in the foster care system, moved from one family to another. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we sit together the way we did a thousand years ago and we don’t say a word but just listen to the thrushes and the skylarks. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lived in constant fear for ten long years, from the time I was four until I was fourteen years old. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I think I had not heard him cry for six years. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Here's the situation. A 5010B is a youth sentence. It means you can do anywhere from sixty days to six years, depending on your behavior and what the parole board thinks." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

“It’s impossible for you to leave me. I’m part of you. You’re taking me and my stories to a new planet and hundreds of years into the future. How lucky I am.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For ten years or more, both of her daughters had often, if impotently, conspired to throw out this veteran kimono. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

I was only two years old when I left Cuba but I remember everything that’s happened to me since I was a baby, even word-for- word conversations. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the past few years, Hideo has transformed from a lanky teenage genius into an elegant young man with piercing eyes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Inevitably a new system of racialized social control will emerge—one that we cannot foresee, just as the current system of mass incarceration was not predicted by anyone thirty years ago. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Although she was not to see Sutpen again for years, she now saw her sister and niece more often than ever. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ten years before, Caputo had been one of the first marines to see combat in Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The first farmers were heirs to that knowledge, accumulated through tens of thousands of years of nature observation by biologically modern humans living in intimate dependence on the natural world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few years later, she took them to a nearby park, a nearly daily activity. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

But I was one of the few people around who could advise them, because I’d held many posts over the years and I knew better than anyone what this country needed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the years that followed, I failed her so many times, each time asserting my own will, my right to fall short of expectations. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod had not experienced total darkness for many years. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Your guessing this thing surprised me, as it took me ten years to think of it. Your second guess, sodium oil, was not as good. I tried it years ago. Eleven days.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I rode the elevator up, the door was open, the smell brought back to me what for forty years I had struggled not to remember but couldn’t forget. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Jay and me were about six years old, Daddy had chopped the posts and used his big sledge to pound them into the ground nice and sturdy. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He said it smelled like the air was a hundred years old in there. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

What signifies your years of inquiry — and — frankly, sir—our years of investment—if the subject has slipped away through your ineptituder I expect regular intelligence on this. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

His choice was made when he was ten years old, under a different tree, bound up in acorns and dares and a single white glove. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, I forget that Jack is a few years older than Mom. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She is around sixty years old and looks a lot like my last memory of Grams. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

At his side, like a useless appendage, is his wife, twenty-seven years younger and equally poor, whose arms and legs are loaded with real and fake bracelets and rings left over from more prosperous days. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Shortly after I left Sing Sing, there was a story in The New York Times about a man named Baba Eng, who had been at Sing Sing for twenty-two years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ll never stare out at the red, gold, and brown rocks that took two billion years to form. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The day elections were announced, our first free ones in thirty-one years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the one who told her in the summer of 1973, when Mariam was fourteen, that King Zahir Shah, who had ruled from Kabul for forty years, had been overthrown in a bloodless coup. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

Was it not what he had once wished to destroy during his ardent years of asceticism? Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I said Mother, I wasn’t even two years old, probably just forming words on my toddler’s tongue. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

From his years holding Irwin’s horses for relay races and matches, Smith knew something about one-on-one races: If one horse could steal a commanding early lead, he almost always won. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The years had gnawed it, and violent hands had maimed it. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Then Sauron was vanquished and his spirit fled and was hidden for long years, until his shadow took shape again in Mirkwood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In five years, with the new technique, Perlmutter and his colleagues at Berkeley found forty-two supernovae. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said he, smiling—“and reason good. I was sixteen years old when you were born.” Emma 1815-12-23T00:00:00Z

That the Conservative government, he would say, with the backing of the Liberals, was reforming the calendar so that every president could remain in power for a hundred years. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

And this is true not only of the microbes of two billion years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Con set his teacup gently on the ground and said, “Madam, you are undoubtedly a wise woman. May I ask how many years you have lived here in the Great Wood?” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“God’s word, brought to you by a crew of romantic idealists in a harsh desert culture eons ago, followed by a chain of translators two thousand years long.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My parents divorced when I was younger, and my father disappeared. I haven’t heard from him in years.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The years of required English classes at school were finally paying off. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

They could hang out, date for a couple of years through college and maybe grad school, and then get married. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Trapper thought it might take Boobie as long as two years to rehabilitate, and he still didn’t know anyone who had ever come back 100 percent from it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I had been bom a couple hundred years ago I would probably have been burned as a demon. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Then you go to community college and live in Bellmont for another two years, minimum. And maybe you lose your best friend forever. This is most likely a one-shot chance here.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

So eight years later, I left again, but this time while I was away, I wrote Ynez letters. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“I am not sure exactly. Perhaps two or so years. Of course, it was all dependent upon your arrival.” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

When Papa returns, he looks as if he has aged ten years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew what she was getting into, because she had been imprisoned for picketing when she lived in London several years before. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“There’s no such thing as a harmless spider. I’ll need years of therapy to get the image of that tub spider out of my head.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He, while his brothers fled to England, was the one who stayed alone with her for twenty years—her living larder. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s this iconic quality to this scene, like it could’ve been the same thirty years ago. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

"We spent some lovely years together, before God sent her back to earth." The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

The reporter asked Sookie if he had ever seen a great white in all of his years of fishing off the Massachusetts coast, and Sookie said, “Nope. Only in the movies.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

By profession, Zooey was an actor, a leading man, in television, and had been for a little more than three years. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The elm was probably a hundred years old, very big, and didn’t give a millimeter when the man plowed into it facefirst. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z

In 1955, there was one psychiatric bed for every three hundred Americans; fifty years later, it was one bed for every three thousand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“For thousands of years, you humans have been throwing in everything as you come across—hopes, dreams, wishes that never came true. Irresponsible waste management, if you ask me.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“No one would have bothered to investigate a family like the Khans even a few years ago,” Asif said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Elephant Island had been named years earlier for the throngs of elephant seals that crowded its rocky shores. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It had been almost six years since Morrow had last spoken to the media, but he didn’t seem to have aged a day. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Later, when I had learned the full truth about the white man, I reflected many times that the average burglary sentence for a first offender, as we all were, was about two years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was taught to read the Bible, play tennis, and use a typewriter, which was the only useful thing she was left with after all those years in a foreign language. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

"What’s amazing," says Carine as she studies these images of her brother, “is that even though the pictures were taken ten years apart, his expression is identical.” Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

This could have gone on for months or even years, in an unending round of guilt-trip Ping-Pong, except Jeffrey stopped us all in our tracks. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me like he hadn’t seen me in years. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

Yes, she’d been frustrated with him for years, but that one moment showed us all how far apart they really were now. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for furthering the aims of the ANC was imprisonment for up to ten years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The handcuffs clipped to his belt were as shiny and unscratched as the day he joined the force, almost two years earlier. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d bought it a few years before, from a client in Bayou St. John. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

If one accepts the traditional, earlier dates for the onset of American plant domestication, then 5,000 years instead of 1,500 or 2,000 years elapsed before food production supported villages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Xan was very good at making people feel better, having had five hundred years of practice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He could read ten years beyond his level, do math that left Tam Lin bewildered—and irritated—and speak both English and Spanish fluently. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In six years, Seabiscuit had won thirty-three races and set thirteen track records at eight tracks over six distances. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years before the revolution, Jorge had traveled five weeks out of six, selling electric brooms and portable fans for an American firm. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s be honest with each other; sure, you’re a genius, but even a genius gets rusty. You were three years out of practice. Forty minutes’ll be plenty.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even if I’d had the money for a new hard drive, it had taken me years to amass the music collection. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

My old lady passed two years ago, and ever since then I don’t know what’s been happening with my life. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But engraved, four years from now, on a bachelor of arts degree? The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

All I can see is Lenny, who grew up with Frank for a dad and just spent four years carrying around bags of smelly old-people diapers for a living. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

There was fond remembrance of the meeting a few years back when hundreds had attended because the state was proposing to end COs’ traditional privilege of carrying concealed firearms off the job. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When you talk about people still being here in ten years—” Lydia rolled her eyes. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Some years ago, Edna Ferber wrote a book about a very tiny group of very rich Texans. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moreover, it was not obvious that even the most backbreaking effort would give within several years the structure of the RNA component. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

I flash back to the necklace I stole for Sophia that helped me win her back all those years ago. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lord knows after thirty years I still crave your forgiveness, but who are you? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was almost exactly two years after the first visit, and it nearly did not happen at ail. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d been working in the Ford River Rouge complex for the last five years when Ruth gave birth to their first child in the middle of a snowstorm. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Five years back with her, and yet I still dream about her leaving us. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I had tried to prepare him for the possibility that it could take years to get his conviction overturned, but he had gotten his hopes up. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“I had it many years ago,” I said. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

That pecan tree was hardly the same tree he’d planted a few years ago. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

A star can burn for billions of years, but it dies just once and quickly, and only a few dying stars explode. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

He shows her the American professor’s house where he and his parents once lived, a time before Sonia was born, years that he has no memory of. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even almost twenty years later, his father never sets foot in his grandmother’s house, nor does she ever come out to Concord. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was a woman who invented white crane boxing only two hundred years ago. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The number of inmates has tripled in the last twenty-five years, and rates of incarceration keep climbing. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernabe had bought it off the distinguished sculptor for a bottle of cheap tokay twelve years ago. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the end, I wanted to crawl into Chip’s minifridge and sleep for a thousand years, but Chip seemed immune to both fatigue and heatstroke. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Showers after gym had been mandatory in middle school, and I’d spent years perfecting how to be naked for the least amount of time. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell her that she was the first beautiful thing I had seen in three years. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And there, at the base of the impregnable anchor, where smooth mesarthium met the stones it had crushed two hundred years ago underneath its awful weight, was the solution to Weep’s problem. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The man said, “We just keep praying that we will connect with our daughters, who were lost years ago.” Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty years earlier, at the request of Chicago’s South Park commissioners, Olmsted had studied both Jackson Park and, to its west, Washington Park, and the broad boulevard that connected them, called Midway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

After Chris unearthed the particulars of Walt’s divorce, two years passed before his anger began to leak to the surface, but leak it eventually did. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Adding insult to injury, Tate went on to be re-elected sheriff, and he remains in office today; he has been sheriff continuously for more than twenty-five years. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Telemachus cried out at her: “Mother, Mother, oh, cruel! What other woman would hold herself aloof when her man came home after twenty years?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They both went through big changes in their teen years. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thirteen years ago may seem like a long time ago, but to me, it seems like yesterday . The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She and Mr. Nielsen have been married for eighteen years, since she was twenty-five and he was in his early thirties. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

People had raised their eyebrows when Ali, a man who had mem­orized the Koran, married Sanaubar, a woman nineteen years younger, a beautiful but notoriously unscrupulous woman who lived up to her dishonorable reputation. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a hospital there, Crow. Until a couple of years ago. That’s all.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Lincoln’s responsible bodyguard William Crook had a more esteemed career, working in the White House for more than fifty years—a time that spanned the administrations of Abraham Lincoln to Woodrow Wilson. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

Burt was forty years old and married to a girl half his age of whom he was insanely jealous. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kiowa, after all, had been a close friend, and for years I’ve avoided thinking about his death and my own complicity in it. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Baaz Mtombé’s Night Zoo was rumored to hold over a hundred exotic species within its confines; in her eleven years of contracted service to it, Koffi had never bothered to count. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The state dinner at which she appeared was the most select and glamorous social event of the Roosevelt years. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

I kept in touch with her for many years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sixty years later we still know next to nothing about what became of him. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Isn’t my costume awful? My stylist’s the biggest idiot in the Capitol. Our tributes have been trees for forty years under her. Wish I’d gotten Cinna. You look fantastic.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of women have been sent to prison under this law in recent years, rather than getting the help they needed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

My wife, Ynez, and I were both brought into the world by way of Puerto Rico, me in 1950, and she five years later. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

As we run the Big Dipper backward into the past, allowing for the motion of its stars, we find quite a different appearance a million years ago. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Massasoit shepherded his people through the wave of settlement, and the pact he signed with Plymouth lasted for more than fifty years. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

None of us children knew it, but Dad had had a bad heart for years, and now Dr. Burton told him he was going to die. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Campus? That what they call it? Well. You wasn’t in no college for—what—ten years now? And you didn't write to nobody. How come you never wrote?” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was at least ten years older than him in age and more than twenty years older in politics. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Two years ago, when he lost his job, he was hitting the bottle heavy and once he was arrested on some jive charge. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Qendrim was not quite six years old when his family arrived in Georgia. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

In Russia, serfdom only finally ended in 1861, two years before Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“So now you’re the savior of the Scholars, after spending years creating the weapons that have destroyed us?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

It took six years, but she paid her creditors every cent she owed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

For years, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon had hoped that if they kept Harry as downtrodden as possible, they would be able to squash the magic out of him. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

And in fact, over thousands of years, people in every corner of the globe built a large body of food knowledge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

“You probably don’t remember me,” said the girl, “but we used to go to school together years ago—before you moved here.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, in whispered conversations that stopped as soon as I walked into the room. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had bought it on the installment plan to be paid for over a period of two years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“You’ve waited thirteen years, right?” my dad says, closing the door behind them. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had meant—or so word at church had it—to build an elaborate bungalow of the sort his father had built years before on the family farm at Island Center. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I looked after the Dudley family for too long, over six years. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Three important revolutions shaped the course of history: the Cognitive Revolution kick-started history about 70,000 years ago. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said that when they were children growing up in a small Pennsylvania town, their father told them all about exploring the moon, thirty years before it actually happened. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The years of careful, unemotional crystallographic training had left their mark. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z

Walker, America soon learned, was overseeing a massive KGB spy ring in the US Navy that stretched back eighteen years. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

But that Hudson went away when his parents’ divorce was finalized on April 1 after twenty years of marriage. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Eugene Williams's mother buried her son a few days later, some seventeen years after she had brought him into the world one spring day in Georgia. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When I was six years old, I took the biggest punch of my life and I haven’t figured out how to get up yet. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some people wasted on for quite a few years. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

This image, created thirty years later, shows one of the many clashes in that war. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

On the day of the execution, Tom, who was twelve years old, stood on a tier inside the jail. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“If you turn it in for cash now, you’ll only get fifty-two dollars. If you hold on to it, in just a few years it will be worth a hundred dollars.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Much of it had been in her family for a hundred years. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly she was seven years old again, hiding under her covers, waiting for the spiders to attack her in the night. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“My goodness, it still smells like her, doesn’t it? Your grandma. How is that possible after all these years?” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now, some fifty-two years later, I was fleeing myself. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he thought that he had talked so much in the years before to his children and they had understood so little that now there was nothing at all to say. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Life has been horribly hectic and the years have flown by like so many swallows in the sky. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

For two years, people suspended their lives to take up the battle. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are entering our last years together, and I wish I had been softer with you. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But at just one week shy of turning fifty-five years old, he still had “the energy of a boy.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Her eyes opened and she smiled, her second smile in over eight years. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I realize it’s just another disadvantage the District 12 tributes have faced over the years. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t seem to matter that all he did was brag about his part-time job with his cousin, who had been in the country for five years. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

"It's been four thousand years, Mother. Get over it." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

They had things ordinary people hadn’t had in years. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I think Mrs. Wesley had had throat cancer years before, although I’m not sure. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the years to come they would replay this scene in their heads. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several years after the Osage murder investigation, Wren, the Ute agent, was forced out of the bureau again, this time for good. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The rug on the floor, with its Cincinnati Reds logo, had also been Mike’s when be was twelve years old. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

When I was seven years old, my mother had been dating her new boyfriend, Abel, for a year maybe, but at that point I was too young to know who they were to each other. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home—Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Van Sommelsdijk had been killed by his own troops several years before, and many of his slaves had vanished into the jungle. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Unwilling to risk a trial and years of imprisonment, you are sentenced to ten years’ probation and ordered to pay $1,000 in fines, as well as court and probation costs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

All of this she had through the painful years divined. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Better than ever. And, Dad, that gyptian man said there was going to be more rain after this bit of sunshine, and then the biggest flood in a hundred years.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

She had just copied them with great care, and had destroyed the old manuscript, so that Amy’s bonfire had consumed the loving work of several years. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our good old nation was just seven years old as a republic when it be­came bigger by a small territory. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Joe Louis matches from years ago were the most exciting, dramatic sporting events I ever heard. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, I’d imagined the camaraderie of team practice, the adrenaline rush of competition, and maybe even being noticed on campus as one of the school’s athletic stars. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I decided to finally address a matter that had burned my patience for years. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to think that in a couple years Maribel will be the same age my mom was when she had me. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, boys and girls, but after ten years old they keep ’em apart.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The town had not known a winter as cold as this one for years. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Schizophrenia isn’t supposed to manifest until a person’s late teens, at the earliest, but I’d gotten a shot of it at just seven years old. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

Both her parents died a few years ago, without ever being reconciled with their daughter. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once, in Yana Urku, when I was about five years old, my sister Matilde was playing with her friend in the green canyon as I tagged along. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mingo opened with the story of his journey, the nights he spent begging the Lord for guidance, the long years it took to purchase his family’s freedom. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, something I had forgotten in the years since I was eighteen: about a third of a server’s job is “side work” invisible to customers—sweeping, scrubbing, slicing, refilling, and restocking. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Again it occurred to Brave Orchid that her sister wasn’t very bright, and she had not gotten any smarter in the last thirty years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only living witness to what happened in the restroom at 10:22 a.m. on September 15, 1963, Sarah chose to live in silence and seclusion for many years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Such visits, in any case, were for the purposes of visiting my mother, to present myself to her as the years went by for her inspection and approval. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He signed on for three years and was sent for basic training to Fort Ord, California. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

She pulled a strand of hair into her mouth, a nervous habit I thought she’d broken years ago. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Dumped her here when she was six years old. Still remember the day,” Nabila said. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And I spend years studying the phenomenon of justice.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, four years later, Baird prosecuted another trial that provided an insight into Baird’s thinking as he considered the Shaw case. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In those early years, the International Red Cross was the only organization that both listened to our complaints and responded to them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were going to be imprisoned for twenty-five years? Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I learned about it over the years from my parents, who told stories of our roots when I asked about various conflicts and wars. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He was sixty-five years old and had become a large man. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

There, resting in his open palm, was the Copper Key, the item for which millions of people had been searching for the past five years. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mendel had spent two years studying physics, chemistry, geology, botany, and zoology at the university in Vienna. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

There have been at least a dozen ice ages in the last two million years, each lasting about 100,000 years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

My first recital, though, was years before I met her. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How this longhouse dated back hundreds of years, while the gathering site at this village dated back thousands of years. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She is a year older than I was when the Khmer Rouge took over the country three years ago. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every one of us had worked for years to earn our place in the arena. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

There were years in my childhood that it seemed like every other house had a huge Winnebago or some other kind of RV docked in its driveway. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Everything within tells me it’s not a good idea, but I actually feel like I haven’t eaten in four hundred years. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

To know if either of them would fight to keep her after trying so hard fifteen years ago to get her. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

“I have only been an Elder-in-Training for five years now, but I am already learning..He paused. “Ever so much,” he finished in a hollow voice. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

In all her years of itinerant living, Mia had developed one rule: Don’t get attached. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“You can make a case that the upper half lives as well as the upper 5 percent did fifty years ago.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

In August 1856, after two years, James earned his bachelor of arts degree and graduated with honors. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

For years gunters had speculated that Anorak still roamed the OASIS, now as an autonomous NPC. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

For billions of years they would have heard only weak and intermittent radio static caused by lightning and the trapped electrons and protons whistling within the Earth’s magnetic field. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They skip forward several years after that: suddenly Megan is twenty-four, living in London, working as a waitress in a North London restaurant. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a cookie tin they found the unopened envelopes of money Esteban had sent his sister once a month for all those years. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it might have been a year, five years. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

I was fourteen years old—and a well-content Hindu on a holiday— when I met Jesus Christ. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

All those years in Welch with no food, no coal, no plumbing, and Mom had been sitting on land worth a million dollars? The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the rate they were going, only six years, they figured. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was already here, in the flesh, sitting less than ten feet from me, after all these years. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Thirty-four years later and thousands of miles west, Abdulrahman Zeitoun was in bed on a Friday morning, slowly leaving the moonless Jableh night, a tattered memory of it caught in a morning dream. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

“Why didn’t you tell me? You didn’t forget. I remember that much about both of you. Details don’t escape you. I’ve lived with details for years.” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“She left him childless after three years and married a man in Khost. She bore him three daughters. That’s what I am trying to tell you.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In other years the little house had buzzed with the teasing and squabbling and hilarity of a crowd of young people. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

It might be said that I told her I stopped having it three years ago because she was talking about sending me to therapy. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

“Vanessa, I’ve written you letters for years explaining, begging for your forgiveness over and over again. I didn’t mean for things to turn out this way.” Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And in the previous few years, he’d had cause to make hard decisions about how to use his prosecutorial powers in difficult cases. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He’s been a part of the team for four years—a major part of the team,” Sky View coach Craig Anhder said of Wick. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Just like I told her ten years ago.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She said I should have been kept behind and given extra help, but no teacher wanted to risk getting me two years in a row. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

So ten years earlier, Charles had left Edinburgh and had gone off to study theology at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had the same hard look in her eyes, as if she’d been used for the past two thousand years and was getting tired of it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Suppose he was to gamble four years against—well, let’s say ten grand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

On May 5, 1990, nearly fifty years after Lilya’s disappearance, Soviet Chairman Mikhail Gorbachev signed a decree honoring her as a Hero of the Soviet Union. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

All of this is nothing, however, against Enrique’s longing for his mother, who left him behind eleven years ago. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. Seems like it hurt everything. Some years, one crop is down and another is up. This year everything is down.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through her years of using Book Scavenger, she’d become accustomed to keeping an eye out for the odd detail. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Dr. Barnes flipped through the stack of performance review sheets he had filled out for Mr. Larson—one for each of the last seven years. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, honey, let me tell you something. You don’t survive, and that’s what I been doing all these years, you don’t survive sitting around expecting folks to act right.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Exactly three hundred years later, in 1919, the United States experienced more labor strikes in one year than in any other year in its history. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

It will be four years before Joffrey comes of age. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Seventy years a worry done put so many lines in his face, he like a road map. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The son was about four years older than me and head and shoulders taller. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Over the years, in the time before and after the playing of games, in the trembling zone of adolescence, Ben had listened to the dialogue and banter of athletes talking about girls. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Absolutely, Dad. Besides, the freezer is getting dangerously low on fish — we’re down to a two, maybe three years’ supply.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

I had played there many times with Henrik and other boys when we were a few years younger, imagining we were defending Willemstad against pirates or even the British. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next two years, many southern blacks found themselves out of work or working for next to nothing, earning barely enough to cover basic necessities. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Twenty years we have been saving all kinds of things for the relatives in Haiti. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“How long is one regular term for a U.S. representative? A. One year B. Two years C. Three years D. Four years E. Six years.” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t feel comfortable confronting him,” Moore told a journalist years later, “so I said, ‘Gee, Doctor, I don’t know how I could have made that mistake.’ The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The more I think about it, the stranger it seems that Olga went to this school for years and never seemed close to getting a degree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“I haven’t seen him for years. But you do look almost like he did when he was your age.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“In addition to being quite social, however, you appear to be a gifted artist. Your portraits are”—she paused, rotating the drawing—“captivating. They show a depth of emotion well beyond your years.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The dust, over the years, had eroded him; it had left his features gray, his thoughts gray; it had shrunk him and made his legs spindly and his gait unsteady. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Though it was often predicted in later years that he was on the point of taking the job, however, he never had Ministerial ambitions. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe I walked down this road barefoot, so many times, years ago. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it will be interesting to see what a fisherman suddenly knows about a woodpecker that no one’s even seen in sixty years,” Lucas replied. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

“My skins. My previous skins. When we shed every few years, we keep them.” The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

She knew nothing about him except the word he had called out to her years ago and the feeling he had excited in her then. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Both of these are accepted: Respectability is different from what it was fifty years ago. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In all these years Matt hadn’t thought about why Daft Donald never spoke. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Pegasus hasn’t shown himself in hundreds of years.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Despite the latter’s objections to Neylan’s security inquiries a few years earlier, Latimer would participate willingly in a process that was tilted even more harshly against its target. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Then for the next eleven years, I tried to work up the nerve to talk to you." The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She knew it would mean splitting us all up for a few years, but she couldn’t give up her life’s project. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

That was close bn three hundred years ago, when the Seven Kingdoms were kingdoms, and not mere provinces of a greater realm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“It could take many years. Many, many years. It will take sooner for some and longer for others.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

So over the years there were other trips to Destin, and he even made it on a few of them. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Ten years later in 1630, Massachusetts Bay Colony was founded by the Puritans. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

They had moved four times in the last five years because Monique forgot to pay the rent. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You remind me of myself from several years ago,” she says. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And why, oh why had he puffed away at that coal like an ignorant novice, when he had known for years exactly how to coax a flame into being? The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

In fact, there is essentially no black-white test score gap within a bad school in the early years once you control for students’ backgrounds. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“You are twelve years old, Nate. What are you ‘working out’?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

A poor bicycle repairman just a few years before, Howard soon had hundreds of thousands of dollars for every penny he had brought to California. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thurmont, Maryland, nearly four years after the death of Charles Monet. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Khalid—this was his favorite book, years ago,” my mom says, showing me A Wrinkle in Time. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s devastating. We poured so many years of our lives into building this place. I painted those walls for the first time with my own hands, and now it’s been...” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She goes on and on about Maxine and Sabrina and how they are a different type of black, how she knows she’s going to get tired of dealing with them for the next two years. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“A thousand years ago women were doing this exact same thing,” said August. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

This idea is the basis of the origin story of the United States, a story that, like a myth, has been retold for hundreds of years. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was actually the acceleration of a process begun years earlier. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It was rumored that Mother Fletcher was well over ninety years old. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ll never forget them, not even after years. But one day, you’ll go a whole minute without feeling the pain. Then an hour. A day. That’s all you can ask for, really.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

How many Titans and giants had she and Percy fought over the years? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“How about it, woman? Did you happen to bed down with some wandering God a dozen years ago? That might solve our little mystery.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You don’t know this, but two years ago when I was a freshman and you were a sophomore, I used to follow you around. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

With his damp hair combed back and his face clean-shaven, he could have looked a good two or three years younger than he had the day before, but his eyes told a different story. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He was a big strapping boy when I last seen him four years ago and now he be fifteen and must be big as a oak! Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But who could have known about it—after all these years? And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Though Harriet had repeatedly applied for a pension for herself or back pay to reimburse her for those years she had served with the Union forces, her claim was never allowed. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

I shrugged and stared at my bare feet, cleaner than they’d been in years, almost unrecognizable. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was only seven years old and his name was Johnny. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A century ago, the foreign ending would have been preferred, but over the years we’ve given English plural endings to more and more foreign-derived words. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, it could well be the case that life, once it becomes complex, is inherently unstable and will self-destruct within a few thousand years. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next four years they would continue to defend him from the rivalries and rules of academia. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Turns out being on the surface of Mars for a few million years eliminates all the water in the soil. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“In years gone by, Mr. Van Texel, he would hardly have noticed that she was a woman. But this time I think the dart of Cupid might actually have penetrated his carapace.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

“Every few years, they say, some-one falls in. If you fall in, there’s no hope of fishing you out. The river swallows you and sweeps you away.” The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

They wrote to each other frequently, and over the years their re-lationship matured. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The penalty for breaking them was five years in prison. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Handing over the key, Maddie explained that she had had a renter there for more than ten years, a single gentleman who had died without any relatives. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“My great-grandfather,” Volkheimer says all of a sudden, “was a sawyer in the years before steamships, when everything went by sail.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

“It was difficult for them to drop me off knowing I wouldn’t be back for two years,” he says, looking back. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Memory gently caressed each word of praise bestowed in the classroom so that compliments teachers paid me years ago come quickly to mind even today. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

That has happened in recent years around the field of attention, particularly the study of attention and its relationship to technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Kissinger reminded Thieu that Nixon had stuck it out in Vietnam for four bloody years. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Indeed, he was now claiming that the artifacts were half a million years old. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

All those years I tried to teach her! The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been a member of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations for a few years now,” he said finally. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could not have been pregnant, you see, because her husband had been gone for years. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he was pushed to remember the book’s title some fifteen years later, Bobby said that it might have been Tarrasch’s Best Games of Chess. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Forty years a landlord’s agent and I never seen the likes of this. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

All of a sudden, Addie gets all sympathetic, like she’s ten years older than me and engaged or something and I’m her pimply little brother. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

For years, I’d dreamed of being one of those powerful girls in their shimmering leotards, flying through air, sticking the landing every time. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Five years earlier, on a Monday afternoon in the fall of 1929, Strub had sat down in his lucky chair at his barber’s and settled in for a shave. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do my best to please everyone, more than they’d ever suspect in a million years. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

American women spent years persuading the government to let them deliver military planes, but only Soviet women could fight air battles in them. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“But twenty years to figure out who you are? I mean, how hard can it be?” Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Plus, I’m afraid that Dad is lurking just inside the door, waiting to hear what I’m going to say so he can ground me for a hundred years. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

You’d be twenty-five years old, too, Cynthia, if you had lived. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Rose Dear and May were eight and ten years old then. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

We lived in this house for three years until our growing clan became too big. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Either way, he’d have to swallow down everything—no matter how bitter it tasted—so they could get back to the dream that had sustained them for years. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“I don’t look sixty years old, do I?” he said. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

In the intervening years, the program had advanced a great deal, but it still got little respect beyond the West Coast. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“If it’s an hundred years’ war he’ll have time to try both of the services.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

It goes a long way back, some twenty years. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was of such goodness that among the other laudable deeds attributed to him is this: in the fourteen years he ruled the empire, he never put anyone to death without a trial. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Because I do a little Internet search and learn that Sears moved their company offices out to the suburbs years ago, about thirty-five miles west—so far away, they can't even see their huge tower. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harding served two years before dying unexpectedly of a stroke. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“The case of Little Reuben occurred only twenty-three years after Cur Ford’s first T-Model was put on the market.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knows he's been one since the day five years earlier when he was fired from Goupil’s. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

In the last few years researchers have focused more and more on a proposal linked to the name of Knut Fladmark, an archaeologist at Simon Fraser University, in British Columbia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I had not hitchhiked in twenty-five years, and it was a vaguely humbling experience. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was like someone who for twelve years had had an inseparable, beautiful marriage— and then suddenly one morning at breakfast the marriage partner had thrust across the table some divorce papers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a lot I don’t remember from back then, the years before my own Great Depression. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Sam started doing this with her group of friends three years ago. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

My grandmother, who had separated from my grandfather many years earlier, was especially unnerved by the crime and his death. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When it returned several years later, she continued to teach even when it was necessary for her students to carry her up the steps to her classroom. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

For the first time in many years he forgot the presence of the telescreen. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

When the church was threatened, it retreated into its old philosophy, turning back toward the Aristotelian doctrine that had supported it for so many years. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

She looked far too young and sprightly to have worn the crown for over forty years. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The wars lasted hundreds of years, but in the end the six southron kingdoms all fell before them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Meetings there ceased a few months after that, and in the intervening years it has become known as the Forgotten Chapel.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Once, when I was ten years old, visiting my dad in Yeoville, I needed batteries for one of my toys. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Mala was nineteen, only two years older than I was, but she looked older. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Dozens of marginal characters have marched off into the Alaska wilds over the years, never to reappear. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t thought about the place in years. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Professor McGonagall led the first years up here, so that they came to a halt in a line facing the other students, with the teachers behind them. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He laughed like this was the most comical thing he’d heard in years. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He moved there a few years ago, after he got married. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

When Robert’s father John Hooke died in 1648, after a long illness, Robert was 13 years old. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Except this: ‘What with one thing and another, three years passed.’ The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was eight years old and that’s about when children started being just with their own color. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

From a year when I was six years old and there were records of Harry Lauder, and Maxfield Parrish paintings still hanging, and bead curtains, and “Beautiful Ohio,” and turn-of-the-century architecture. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could be arrested and spend years in the palace dungeons for being alone with me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Think also that you know of a good reason for your failure, which you have tried to hide, tried pathetically to hide and overlook, for five and twenty years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was forty years old and a grandfather, we were told, but he looked much, much younger. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was only about four years old but he was sturdily built; moreover, he was clutching a large stuffed toy to his chest with both arms. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“T. H. is nineteen years old,” Kurnakov reported to his KGB contact in New York—Kurnakov was, in fact, a spy. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was furious, livid—more furious than I had been about anything in years. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Over the course of the next few years the house changed into a ruin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bod made for the lightning tree, an oak that had been burned by lightning twenty years ago and now was nothing more than a blackened limb clutching at the sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

But that was before she met Sula, the girl she had seen for five years at Garfield Primary but never played with, never knew, because her mother said that Sula’s mother was sooty. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I was going to shriek like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was a day we had yearned for and fought for over so many years. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

If I’d known the truth was the one thing that could shut Juanita up for good, I would have stopped lying to her years ago. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

In March, an eager Mexican busboy with a heavy accent who had worked there for four years got a chance to wear a waiter’s tie. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t seen him,” she said, musingly, “for more than twenty years.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The school felt more mine than in all my four years there. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“All right. OK. Can we go back a bit? To when the problem started. You said it was . . . four years ago? Can you tell me about that time?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my younger years I had learned that grown men cry only when they have no other choice. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She was by many years the oldest person we’d ever seen up till then. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I see. Very well, then. It was years ago, Gabe. You were a little boy. I remember how mischievous you were in school. Sometimes inattentive." Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Therefore, these princes of ours who have ruled their principalities for many years and who have subsequently lost them should not blame Fortune, but rather their own indolence. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were hanging the family motto her dad had years ago stenciled onto scrap wood: LIVE, TRAVEL, ADVENTURE, BLESS, AND DON’T BE SORRY. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Miss Thomas said, “James, Bud was six years old, everyone on earth was real tall to him. I don’t see the point in all this.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, two years ago I planted thirty. I think there are about eighty now.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your dad’s been gone for seven years before?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

A quiet, remote, very beautiful farming valley that had not changed a great deal in 200 years was lost forever. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to find him when I was ten years old, and from what I pieced together, I'm pretty certain that he died in some kind of accident involving a cargo plane. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

My favorite rocks to find were geodes, which Monyaid came from the volcanoes that had erupted to form the Tuscarora Mountains millions of years ago, during the Miocene period. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Caleb followed me eight years later, after losing three of his fingers to a table saw because he was drinking on the job. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Twenty years is a mighty long time,” Elizabeth said, “he’s bound to have changed some.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The whole time I’ve been in Indiana, which is all my life— the purgatory years, I call them—we’ve apparently lived just eleven miles away from the highest point in the state. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Thus the summer passed, and years later they would both recall those passionate nights as the happiest time of their lives. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Courtney’s parents split up when she was four years old, and her father moved with his mother to a town two hours away, in the Pocono Mountains. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

She whisked her limp brown curls off her shoulders and wound them quickly into a bun, exactly the way she’d done every morning for the past eleven years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

On August 3, 1959, two years and eight months after our arrests, and after a full year of legal maneuvering, the actual trial commenced at the Old Synagogue in Pretoria. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, I had the idea you had lived many years out there.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bear that she had thought all these years was outside herself, but now, truly, knew was in her own narrow spirit. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

Magdalena gave birth to a baby girl, Amantina, and for years they lived hand to mouth. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hands had not been so steady for years, nor half so fluid. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Even the Navy admitted that the Coast Guard was “10 years more advanced” than its own intercept service. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

At home, only two years of P.E. were required. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ever since I first came to the hospital more than ten years ago, she’s been the respiratory therapist here, slipping candy to me and the other CFers, like my partner in crime Poe. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

For three years I hated the courthouse because it took Daddy from us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

His face was weathered and brown from years in the sun. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t see how they could find Sam guilty—he’d fought for three years, he’d risked his life, how could they decide to punish him for something he hadn’t done? My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the last two centuries, abject slavery, with us for thousands of years or more, has been almost eliminated in a stirring planet-wide revolution. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven years after composing his Pathetique sonata, Beethoven stopped sounding like Mozart or Dussek or Haydn and started creating music beyond what they had imagined. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Dad had brought Mom to Welch for a brief visit fifteen years earlier, right after they were married. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

It affected Ba unexpectedly, in a way he had not felt in years; he filled with great tenderness. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

With his answer, Theo sends Vincent an analysis of a painting by Edouard Manet, The Dead Toreador, painted more than twenty years earlier. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a cat-eyed boy about five or six years old. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Charlie had been without underwear a lot over the last few years. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Ten plus one plus one equals twelve years, sir.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I have been to Alaska some twenty times during the past twenty years—to climb mountains, to work as a carpenter and a commercial salmon fisherman and a journalist, to goof off, to poke around. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Weston frowned, “When did you decide this? He’s been with Gloria two years now and I haven’t seen you worry till now.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

Mr. Brunner had this look that wouldn’t let you go— intense brown eyes that could’ve been a thousand years old and had seen everything. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

In New York, California, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii, a woman had been able to obtain a legal abortion for at least two years before Roe v. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Third years at Hog — at my school are allowed to visit the village sometimes,” said Harry. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He’d also written one of the most famous clinical gynecology textbooks, which is still widely used sixty years and ten editions after he first wrote it. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time in five hundred years, Glerk was afraid. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The stone is dressed with circular furrows, a design that hasn’t been used for more than a hundred years. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had once, she was quite sure, been in love with her, though he’d never said anything about it, and they’d both been married for years now. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The last good kiss / You had was years ago.’” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The others were junior scythes, in the first years of their scythehood. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Her father had been dead for six years, her mother for ten, but that didn’t stop her from seeing them in complete strangers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Hermione had darted ahead to fulfill her prefect’s duty of shepherding the first years, but Ron remained with Harry. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Joon and I both possess Uhmma’s lean fingers, but without the hard, yellowed calluses formed by years of abuse from physical labor. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

They'd kept the faith through the five years that had passed since Walter was first arrested, and now they had cause to feel energized and encouraged. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

You want to talk about my family and here I been dead to them for fifty years. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I would go back to the past, like a couple years ago, with the winning lottery numbers for my mom. Change the game up for us.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

First, no company here has produced the vaccine in recent years. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

“Two years and eleven months,” the girl said defensively. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

In recent years they had fallen in with a gabby, childless couple, older than they were, called the MacNatts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Didn’t I value any of my eleven years and ten months? P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Two more years before I’m in high school and I’m already counting the days till I get out of Haines Junior High and away from Lymon. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“The God of Wild Places disappeared two thousand years ago,” he told me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Washington had been made a major in February 1753, an amazingly high rank for a man who was not quite 21 years old. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been struck by lightning a few years back, and the pastor had said it was a sign from heaven, like a blessing, and that they ought to leave it just like that. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Fear, certainly: she was just three years old when a B-29 Superfortress dropped an atomic bomb on Japan, forever linking the name Hiroshima with annihilation. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Shortly thereafter, he started a successful appraisal company with my dayee Shahrdad, and over the years, they employed nearly every member of our large family. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Stone tools became common around 2.5 million years ago, but they were merely the crudest of flaked or battered stones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The news says the pilot has been a spy for the Communists for years. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“I’ve been working all these years, and I am tired. You alone can make me happy in the twilight of my life. Take the Simba job when you finish school, child. Promise me you will.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I started playing golf when I was only ten years old. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

"I'm beginning to think you shouldn't have started reading comics with a book that completely deconstructs the last fifty years of the genre," he said. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Within a thousand years it would strike Tierra del Fuego. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Third years are permitted to visit the village of Hogsmeade on certain weekends. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

"We're very thirsty men. This young man pushed history ahead twenty years today." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took almost three years to recover from the depression that engulfed me after the abortion of my first child. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

But there had been no king for nearly a thousand years, and even the ruins of Kings’ Norbury were covered with grass. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I think he felt guilty for leaving me home alone on the weekends, but he’d spent too many years building his habits to break them now. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

“The enemy was clearly not being defeated,” said Scruggs, despite American troops having been on the ground for five years. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

After they had been away ten years, the daughter implored her husband to return to her hometown. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

Pardee, Jacob, and Monod published their monumental study on the lactose operon in 1959, six years after the Watson and Crick paper on the structure of DNA. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just at that moment, as Nivea would recall years later, in the midst of all that anxiety and silence, the voice of little Clara was heard in all its purity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes she jokes with Nikhil about their having to pick up and move, in a few years, to Iowa, to Kalamazoo. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Like so many, they had slipped, in a few short years, from a comfortable, secure middle-class existence to one in which every dime seemed harder to come by than the one before. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

There were many Jewish persons on my staff throughout all my years with his lordship, and let me say furthermore that they were never treated in any way differently on account of their race. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

So, for the years between 1820 and 1945, he collected data on the hundreds of wars that had been fought on our poor planet. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guys in her band were all at least forty years old, and treated her like she was a snot-nosed little kid. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

And Neylan’s visceral disdain for Robert Oppenheimer—“so conceited that he just shoved God over”—may well have contributed to the bitter break between Lawrence and Oppenheimer that soured their last years. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He had had so many injuries over the years and rarely sought treatment. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

But then Andrew would remember how Sasha had visited him when he was hospitalized for depression two years before, just after starting ninth grade. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

It had been more than three years since the arrests, but when Tate and the other officers started making threats of lynching, Walter was terrified. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

He had told Alma the day before she left that had God not killed the Grigori angels so many years ago, their baby would have lived. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Two years at Hogwarts hadn’t taught them everything about the castle, and they had never been inside North Tower before. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It’s weird to have him paying attention after years of not paying attention. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Being on my own over the past two years has brought me close to being a victim of human trafficking, and closer to being dead—and that was even before the Tap-Out. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

“False. I attended a single game at UGA five years ago.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

He flipped through the pages and saw the detailed descriptions I had of almost every woman I’d ever competed against over the years. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

They’d been through situations like this a few times in the last twenty years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“They took twenty ounces of blood from Joseph, and he will live for years.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

After years of deception, exploitation, and knavery, the Sixers have finally managed to buy and cheat their way to the entrance of the Third Gate. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

"The first in two hundred years. And I'll bring it back to us." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

For years after the fair Burnham used the exclamation, “Bully!” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Mam taught me all my letters years ago, in Ireland, then taught me how to spell. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Huggins had found organic matter in the comets; in subsequent years cyanogen, CN, consisting of a carbon and a nitrogen atom, the molecular fragment that makes cyanides, was identified in the tails of comets. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were leaving in maybe a couple of years? A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Instead, it was realizing that, maybe, after years and years of trying, he’d finally outrun DNA and come out on the other side. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

At fifty-one, he had served in the Coast Guard for most of his working life, and he had been tracking the gangsters for years. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

We head to Sasha’s, a clothing store that Rabia and I discovered a couple of years ago, tucked into a corner of the mall. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“The Bronze Age? Goodness, I don’t know; about five thousand years ago,” she said. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The old woman sat silent, bearing the burden of her years. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Footsteps, dainty and thin, came along the hall, and a kind-faced lady of some forty years, dressed in a sort of dress you might expect in the year 1909, peered out at them. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was twenty-one years old at the time. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Nunley was about a million years old, with bifocals and no teeth and a greasy wave of gray hair. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“It is true, Carmen, true, true, true. After thirty-one years, we are free again!” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

As we pulled into the station, I recalled an afternoon ten years earlier. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Thus they would say, “It was two years before we sold the pearl,” or, “It was six weeks after we sold the pearl.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many years later, I landed back in the nest. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both recently retired—my grandfather from the ministry and my grandmother from twenty-six years as an elementary school teacher in the Bronx. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

From the time I entered prison until I married, about twelve years later, because of Mr. Muhammad’s influence upon me, I had never touched a woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I suddenly realized it had been sixteen years since I’d seen him standing up. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Twenty-five years earlier, I had stood behind that same window, thick rain dripping down the panes and my breath fogging up the glass. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

All of the anger that had built up in my heart throughout my childhood years was released at that moment. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

And the single-minded determination that had propelled him through twenty-five years of green- grocering in a famous ghetto of America would serve him a few last days, and through any of my meager execrations. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I waited ten years to come back, and when I called on him again he had died. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over the next several years, they spent many enjoyable hours in the kitchen together. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

He was with us for two years without being wounded, so that something had to happen in the end. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the moment I’m reading Emperor Charles V, written by a professor at the University of Gottingen; he’s spent forty years working on this book. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

Mom grabbed my sister, my aunt, and me, along with two of my little cousins, Musore and Rusengo, who were six and nine years old. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Over two hundred years later and still remembered. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

“I’ve just had eighty years of pleasantly boring days,” she said, raising up on one elbow from the shady spot where she’d been sleeping. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The first one, posted two years ago, was from Charlotte Bronte. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Some milpa areas have been farmed for thousands of years— time in which farmers in Mesopotamia and North Africa and parts of India ruined their land. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

For hundreds of years after his death the sick and the maimed and the blind came for healing to his temples. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His academic credentials got him into Yale Law School, but his heart was still connected to all the brokenness his years on the street had shown him. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Not a hint or rumor in two hundred years, and now Tizerkane warriors were riding through the gates of the Great Library. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

All the important science Blumberg has done over the years depended on free and unlimited access to tissues. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Even in the room I’d slept in for seventeen years, the place I knew better than anywhere else, I had to make sure nothing was out of the ordinary. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The oldest, Margarita, was about ten, then three more with about three years’ difference between them down to the baby with her pacifier on a dirty ribbon round her neck. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

So proud was the father of his child that he decided that the naming ceremony would be one which would be remembered by people for many years. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Too many years of bad eating and not taking care of himself and so— What does this have to do with anything? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

More years than I wanted to think about, certainly more than Lissa would believe. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

You think you can hold on to this thing for twenty years? Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I don’t have the heart to tell her that I haven’t taken a bath for a hundred years. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

He lived that way for ninety-nine years, and so far I followed his directions for 101. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a grandeur about the day, about the colossal, barely stirring beeches and oaks, and the light that dropped like jewels through the fresh foliage to make pools among last years dead leaves. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“One digit to two. You’ll be two digits now for the next ninety years.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

To all intents and purposes, Earth now was dead; they had been away from it for three or four years. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You arrived six years ago. So you’ve been fishing for all that time.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Year after year it sheds its skin, then eats it, keeping the iron in its system. After two hundred years ...” I tapped the scale against the stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It was consistent with everything that had happened over the last six years, but it was still maddening. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

A few blocks from his house he noticed something he had never seen before: a kid, maybe a couple years older than Wes, standing on a street corner. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Are these words to use about an ally you stood shoulder to shoulder with only a few years back?' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then he melted into the shadows—just like her father had seventy years before. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They speak of Uhmma’s early years gathering and drying fish along the Korean coastline. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The many years in seal camp alone with Kapugen had been dear and wonderful, but she realized now that she had lived a strange life. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was arrested on federal charges in 1983 and sentenced to life in prison two years later. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“For many years, I have forbidden anyone from trying. We don’t know exactly what’s happened. Humanity seems to have lost the ability to host the Oracle.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

For all its bluster, the Court offered no meaningful protection against jury discrimination in the years that followed. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now he was two years older than his fellow applicants, was months late, had no money, and his family was very far away. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked distressed and gloomy; she was undoubtedly considering the difficult months and years ahead, of life on her own, raising two small children, in an often hard and forbidding city. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dwelled on the long years Ammu would be put away because of them. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But for nine years, South Carolina has operated as if this law did not exist. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The long interactions between Africa’s many peoples generated its fascinating prehistory, including two of the most dramatic population movements of the past 5,000 years—the Bantu expansion and the Indonesian colonization of Madagascar. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it is probably a kind of mock period piece done only a few years ago. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

If he’d wanted to see my mom all these years, he would have. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He was with a small curly-haired girl in purple overalls who looked like she was about two years old, and he was holding her hand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I'll get the royal treatment when I start driving in a few years. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Four billion years later people began to wonder how it had all happened. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, his time in Faerie must have seemed like a distant dream. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She looked beautiful and about twenty-three years old. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

There they lived for over twenty years out of the swing of Island social life. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

In my seventy-two years on earth I had never met an Innuit and never imagined that I would. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Hundred and fifty million years? A whippersnapper among ammonites, really. What say we buy it for you?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s five years in a federal prison and a twenty-five-thousand-dollar fine....” This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now it seemed years ago, not months, that he had lived at the Laphams’, and then surely Cilia and Isannah were the only friends he had. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Well, she’s old, but I guess after eighty years of living in District 4 she can keep afloat. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her hands, well calloused from years of harvesting, were stripped of their toughness and became soft in the wash water. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Lady Stark," he said, taking her hand in both of his, "to see you again after so many years is such a joy." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All around the reception area, there are framed pictures of the various DJs with hip-hop royalty they’ve interviewed over the years. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Hill House itself, not sane, stood against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it was several years ago, when I was student teaching. Not at this school,” she added quickly. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He was sentenced to serve fifteen years to life in prison. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Can you shriek like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years?” said Mrs. Windermere. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

And after all these years was thrilled to see what she believed was one of them. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There was a spill thirty years ago. The contamination must have affected Pond’s water.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

And he stared at her and at the shadowed hollows of her face and he thought again how there was no beauty in her and how for many years had he not desired her. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Do you know if curse scars sometimes hurt years afterward? Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She’d spent years trying to forget the Freeing of the Lobsters. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

“I do believe it’s come again, after all these years!” Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s because of what happened to the tsar twelve years ago. The assassination.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Uncle George had run away to be a drummer boy in the army, when he was fourteen years old. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

One effect of these laws was an increase in the prison population, over the next twenty-five years, of 560 percent. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he left, however, she walked over to the couch and sat down, crossing her ankles, resting her hands in her lap, and staring out patiently in black and white across the years. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

A veil had descended over my eyes, but I felt twenty years old and had the strength of a bull. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her fingers find his hand and hold tight, as if she were pulling him up from an edge she lost him to years back. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mudd, thirty-two years old, was a doctor living on a farm with his wife and family. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was just eighteen, two years older than me, and by far the most popular of all the young girls in Louisville. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“They’re supposed to be for the horses, but who cares? They’ve got years to eat sugar, whereas you and I...well, if we see something sweet, we better grab it quick.” Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“About ten years ago, this Indian guy knocked on the door of my cabin in Montana.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

This half-truth was of great use to the poor fellow, who learned to substitute it for the real trouble in later years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Fourteen years ago,” she tells Molly and Terry. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was an unusual enough occurrence that even someone from our island who had gone to college fifty years ago was remembered for it. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

But later, his mother told him he had made a mistake coming back despite what she’d told him two years ago. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

It’s now three years since I last walked out of Sing Sing, and seven months since Newjack came out in hardcover. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of all the legends that he had heard in his early years such fragments of tales and half-remembered stories about the Elves as the hobbits knew, had always moved him most deeply. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

"Can we keep them on those oars for a few years, see how they fancy it?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Frankie began coming to Western Biological when he was eleven years old. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Four years. We’ve kept you for over four years,” Frau Kleist used to complain. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Imagine a Sapiens band reaching a Balkan valley where Neanderthals had lived for hundreds of thousands of years. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No one’s been down there for hundreds of years.” Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the first time they had exchanged words face-to-face since he was injured, years now. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

He now had a plantation; inside of two years he had dragged house and gardens out of virgin swamp, and plowed and planted his land with seed cotton which General Compson loaned him. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

And though, over the years, his departures had become mundane, his father would always stand on the platform until the moment the train was out of sight. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, through the same flush war years, John Hughes had hustled profitably enough to be able to open a pretty good gambling house. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I came to this country forty years ago,” he said. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Beginning in 1616, the pestilence took at least three years to exhaust itself and killed as much as 90 percent of the people in coastal New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

After all those years of struggle, all the hardship, it is a relief for Vincent to know that it is at an end. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

For a couple of people like Gale and me, who’ve been in charge of our families’ food supply for years, it doesn’t sit well. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

And for a couple years there, it felt like our house was always filled with this old-time Southern music. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He’s a Limerickman but he has an American accent from his years in Los Angeles. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the authorities believed that Adele, who was twelve years older than my grandfather and had been his live-in companion for two years by that time, would make sure that nothing happened to us. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most of them are attached to men a good thirty years older than her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Then she remembered something her father had told her years ago: You were named Piper because Grandpa Tom thought you would have a powerful voice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He did three years in jail, and when he got out, my mother made it clear he couldn't stay with us anymore. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It is going to take a long time to get there–three or four million years at least–so we’ll leave it for now, and return to it much later in the story. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

It would stay that way until January 27, 1944, nearly two and a half years later. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Likely the one on the road got the twenty years. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone who has ever revisited the place of his birth after years of absence is shocked by the differences between the way the place actually is, and the way he has remembered it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And today, like each time they have landed on my hand for the past two hundred years, I wonder at the weight of a sparrow. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In the years leading into World War II, and during the war, it was much more common for women to be involved in aviation than it is even now. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

“Miss Trixie has stood by Levy' Pants through the years,” the office manager explained while the ancient assistant accountant babbled something else about the turkey. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For many years in Cuba, nobody spoke of the problem between blacks and whites. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

By around 5,000 years ago, pollen analyses testify to widespread deforestation of highland valleys, suggesting forest clearance for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph was forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Today, twenty-five years later, it’s close to 50 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

And when these were employed, the idea that the only human occupants of one-third of the earth’s surface had changed little for thousands of years began to seem implausible. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

She thought that previously, when God did not make the same traps out of the months and years that the Turks used when they measured a yard of percale, things were different. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In fact, he had seldom received a mark lower than an A. In the seventh and eighth grades at St. Jude’s, he had received straight A's for two years except for a 5-plus one term. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I am, seventeen years old, and I take business trips for the weekend, speak on the same stage as Hillary Clinton, fly back home, and go to school the next day. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father has missed so much of my life, especially the last few years while I’ve been a Freedom Writer. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She had waited all these years for a place of her own, and here it was, in an elegant building where rich people lived. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sammie said that they had not been in contact for many years. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Thirty- six years old and I can still hear my mama telling me, It ain’t nobody’s business. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She hadn’t seen her mother for two years. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was exactly what Hylla had said to her six years ago, the night they escaped their father’s house. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Until two years later, seemingly out of nowhere, an orchid sprouted, a shock of blue in this vast expanse of empty dirt. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At a mass rally at a stadium in Soweto, hundreds of dignitaries from foreign governments gathered to pay their respects to the man who kept the ANC alive during its years of exile. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, not even twenty years ago,” he was saying. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Every graduate of Lincoln Elementary School for the past thirty-five years could remember standing at that table listening to Mrs. Granger’s battle cry: “Look it up. That’s why we have the dictionary.” Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years before, only twenty miles away, General Washington had beaten the Hessians there. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of the pier, a guy who looked about a million years old was passed out in a patch of sunlight. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

The food drive takes place in the gym at my old elementary school, and we’ve gone for the last three years. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There was a main structure, then a thirty-acre electrified enclosure where the adult bonobos lived, and the nursery, where the orphans spent their early years. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t remember exactly when. It was, like, four years ago, I think,” Jazmyn says. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The She Elephant, in view of the help she gave, was only sentenced to two years in prison. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve shared her story with students in every middle school I have visited since the book was published ten years ago, and with many parents and teachers as well. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The years of research, the magic symbols, the strange words, and the laboratory equipment . . . none of this had made an impression on the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Six years on the run from these people. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

But immigration is merely restoring the diversity that America held for thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lon had been right, of course: years of poring over manuscripts had given the Librarian severe myopia, and he wore thin half-moon spectacles on the end of his nose. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He pointed toward what used to be the back wall, which had fallen years earlier, leaving little more than the frames of two tall windows. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Had she been born five hundred years sooner, Raphael would have chosen her as a model for his cherubs. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then young Wilkie took over for a while, but only for a couple of years. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I seen them a few years ago up North. They’re traders, but some of them are just mean, nasty warriors.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Late in the evening, they arranged for her son, a solemn little article of eight or ten years old, to play the violin with his music-master and others in consort. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Our oldest child, Kate, was only four years old, too young to understand what was happening. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I can think of one carer at least who went on for all of fourteen years despite being a complete waste of space. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

One afternoon I met a man who had been section hiking for twenty-five years with a bicycle and a car. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

War between the natives and the Europeans continued for years. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Displayed atop its stand, the blade shone in the moonlight—the metal still gleaming after a thousand years. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The story starts when Jean Valjean is released from prison after serving nineteen years for stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Ten years ago, Toto was walking with his wife on a beach in Ocean City, New Jersey. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

Many had lists of the daily hit numbers going back for years; they figured reappearance odds, and used other systems. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been living in my mind like this for years, a deity of contempt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the years prior to 1919, extraordinary advances were made in the field of aviation. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

What I mean is the California of four years ago, before we moved here, when Eleanor was a sophomore and I was going into ninth grade. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Over the years he had passed through the various Kyu—student grades. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Gazing at the crowded audience, Kira remembered the many past years when she had come dutifully with her mother to the Gathering. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The principal didn't seem to be around, but some old lady around a hundred years old was sitting at a typewriter. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But then a few years later, rates of execution and death sentencing were once again decreasing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Percy, that’s a gift from your father. I’ve kept it for years, not knowing you were who I was waiting for. But the prophecy is dear to me now. You are the one.” The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Well,” Mr. Chris said, and gave a queer little cough, “to tell you the truth, Marly, this country is overrun with foxes the past few years.” Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

For more than two years the canal inadvertently diverted virtually all of the river's prodigious flow into the Salton sink. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The article, which also included provocative material, caused a sensation, coloring many of the interview questions that would be fired at Bobby for years after. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Even now, eight years later, I remember how my papa looked that day—like a thundercloud, but also like a pitiful, lightning-struck tree. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

These changes took a long time, and it was nearly two years after the deaths of Grissom, White, and Chaffee before the first manned Apollo finally flew. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had opened thousands of them over the years to blow his dreams into children’s bedrooms. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

When this young woman of 28 explained that she had been flying for 16 years, Lovelace and Flickinger found it hard to believe. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, however, the University of Michigan decided to look closely at how the law school’s minority students had fared after they graduated. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

“When my children were growing up, they knew only that I came from Europe and had lost my family. They knew no details for thirty years because I did not want to burden them. “ Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

It had been years since Eleanor had played with them, but she was still happy to see them there. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

For her, the years from 1938 to 1941 were a time of “exciting, round-the-clock adventures, as we counter-spied into the minds and activities of the agents attempting to spy into those of the United States.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

It dramatized three situations that, we were told, had actually occurred in the past two years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

McClellan has yet to find work, living off his dwindling savings and investments from his years at Kaiser, though he continues with plans to open his own car wash. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Woman'1 She was a teenager, maybe six years older than me. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Finally, after a few years, my grandma was feeling very sad because she had these two little kids, and she was tired from waitressing all the time. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

In all of the years since, I never have met any intelligent white man who would try to insist that Jesus was white. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though I was not aware of it, the next four years were to be the only opportunity for formal study in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Kabuo had done what he could in these circumstances to assist the friend he had known since childhood, a boy he’d fished with years earlier. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boy was only a few years older than I was. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Before we took off, she paused to take one final look at our house, the house she’d lived in for six years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“We always tried to make our lines as beautiful as we could,” Paul recalled years later. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Incorrect: Two years ago, Whiskers was the first cat to have googled on his own smartphone. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the years passed, due to the carelessness of some of the Whitcomb brothers, it became difficult to maintain their whiteness, and some distant and some not so distant relatives married each other. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the library’s demolition also meant that those of you who are now twelve years old have lived your entire lives without a public library.” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Leaving his remaining children with friends for the time being, Kepler, still only 40 years old, set off on his travels again. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

But almost everything he described in that book had been done years before and kept hidden from public view until that happy encounter in Cambridge in 1684. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

He mulled this over—and considered how twenty-five of his classmates, some of whom he'd been attending school with for twelve years, could possibly have wanted to “know him better.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

It says, Over these three years, our leader has had the courage to face a Europe that was in danger of collapse. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The Hagens, who had been foster parents for more than twenty years, had decided to close their foster home. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

That was a part of himself he’d lost over the years, that was the part that was gone. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

She attended school for only three years, from ages eight to eleven, but she was said to have a photographic memory and a great deal of innate intelligence. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

On the way to Corbin Lancelot had a strange adventure, which he remembered for many years with awful grief. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a few years, the tension remained submerged. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

El Patron could live for years—would live for years, the boy assured himself. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years before, far away from there, she had fallen asleep without putting out the candle and had awakened surrounded by flames. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wish I had some sign of a shoulder so that people would know I was at least fourteen years of age. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Whose boots are these? They seem a hundred years old!” When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It is the first time in thirty years that we nine black alumni have entered this school together. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Some people stay on it for years. At least four to nine months.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I hadn’t been gone long, and the last few years I had lived here had been a nightmare, but what I remembered wasn’t the snow shoveling and the shootings and the starvation. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mother had been planning for several years to take all of us to California to visit her family. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

For four years Otis had been crazy and sane, turn and turn about, on again and off again. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Lolo has had a disease for years and you didn’t tell me?” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

I was three years old when 9/11 happened, so I didn’t remember it like all the teachers in school did. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the sky above Weep, the angel folded its wings, and the moonlight and starlight that for fifteen years had been held at bay came flooding in, seeming sun-bright after such long absence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I smile and kiss her forehead the exact same way I did when we lay like this for the first time nine years ago. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

Like my sisters and brother, over the years, I’ve grown used to hearing that voice. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The generals of Europe are still ordering massed assaults against fortified positions long years after his death, in 1904, at the age of eighty-three. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Forty-three years old now, my parents, on this historic night, lie sound asleep. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

But when one doesn’t see one’s family for many years at a time, the transformation can be striking. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although the role of chief was a venerable and esteemed one, it had, even seventy-five years ago, become debased by the control of an unsympathetic white government. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“An ordinary common or garden rat like this can’t be expected to live longer than three years or so,” said the witch. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

For fifteen years, she and the others had survived in hiding, trapped in this citadel of murdered gods and scraping a meager existence from it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But crammed into the corner with Billy was a former hobo who was forty years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned to Katie and explained: “So many years comes this girl by me to buy dickies and paper collars for the papa. Now for a whole year already, she don’t come.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had so many years of teaching behind her I could see she wasn’t going to fool around. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All for Ess, this wonderful place, for years and years to come. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“He’ll be mad at Kyro? Look, none of this, none of it, is his fault. He’s aged ten years since the wreck. He wears a Lucy bracelet, okay?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

It would be a couple of years before she was confronted with the whole rigmarole of separate bathrooms. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

For the next seventeen years he was based at home in The Hague and devoted himself to the scientific study of nature. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Our family has been in Yazd for many years. Many generations, born and raised here. And then put here when they died.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The same streets that had cared for her family, taught her family, looked out for her family for so many years. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Etty had been sickly since she was thirteen, two years before. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spent years and years doing what I wanted to do most of all—being with wild, free chimpanzees in the forest. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The toilet leaked for five years until a clever and handsome guest fixed it with a piece of chewing gum. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

After two hundred years of trying, the Earth finally had an age. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

But no one wants to think about it because it brings up Link and Pamela and the swastikas and stories of what happened forty years ago. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In those years, this was the only time we were permitted in the courtyard on Sunday, except for our half hour of exercise. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother and father have stoked each other’s indignation for almost forty years telling stories about land quarrels among the uncles, the inlaws, the grandparents. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And at some period within about five to six years it’s likely that each will have won ten lunches in a row. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had been friends for more than sixty years. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I was lorded over by Mommy, my older siblings, friends of Ma’s, and relatives on my father’s and stepfather’s sides whom, years later, I would recognize as guiding forces in my life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

After three years in our desert ghetto, at least we knew where we stood with our neighbors, could live more or less at ease with them. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some described being transferred between bases eight or more times in as many years, in each instance needing to start over in settling their children into things like music lessons or enrichment programs. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Chess guessed there was a big difference between him being just one year younger than Natalie and Emma being three years younger. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He lives in Hampden town, and has published a book of photographs of the college through the years, which has made him much sought-after as an after-dinner speaker at the various clubs in town. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Consequently, the town remained the same size for over 150 years. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

When I was about nine years old, there was a bad drought in our region. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

“To me, running in the Relays is a reward. It’s my way of saying thank you to those who have stayed with the program and put up with me for three years.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Pluto was a planet all those years and then someone just decided it wasn’t anymore? Too small. Too far away. Orbit not just right.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She's probably made an active effort to pretend I'm not a vegetarian hundreds of times over the last two years, but now that there's company, remembering a personal fact about me makes her look thoughtful. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

"Careful, young lady. I have been teaching this subject for twenty years." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I flip through each page, watching my handwriting get smaller and neater as the years go by. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Me and my mama got here like three or four years ago.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

After thirty-five years the man Mobutu has run away in the night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her brother was several years younger and bore no weapons. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“I’ve picked up a few things in ten years with you.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so she picked me up and I did what grandchildren are supposed to do: I erased the years between us. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

As soon as my diploma was in my hands, we packed my parents’ car with all of the stuff I’d accumulated over four years and headed home. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

My aunt haunts me—her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And for six years, they hadn’t been caught. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Reginald then was only sixteen, but, a six-footer, he looked and acted much older than his years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The friends his parents have collected for almost thirty years are in attendance, to pay their respects, cars from six different states lining the whole of Pemberton Road. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It can go years or even centuries without producing one. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

How he must have wanted to look at them, especially at the daughter whom he had not seen for five long years. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s more than fifty years of good coal left in that mine.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

She was a few years older than me, always talking about having a family, living in a house in the country, like her aunt's place in Michigan. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just two years prior, with the storm clouds gathering, President Roosevelt challenged the nation to ramp up its production of airplanes to fifty thousand per year. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She left a pile of her things by the door: a comb, a square of polished silver that Ajarry had scrounged years ago, the pile of blue stones that Nag called her “Indian rocks.” The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Either lost or willed to the king of France in 1738 on the condition that it be locked away for two hundred years. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I was gonna find the Preacher if it took me ten years. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

At best, Rat said, she was seventeen years old, fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You now have many more years of life. Live them well." Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I know over the years my father and his friends got together less and less. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

In sum, the Rugens were Couple of the Week in Florin, and had been for many years.... The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was full of books and pictures, and there was even a fireplace, although it looked as if no one had used it for at least a hundred years. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“But he’s been in New York four years! The least he could have done was say good-bye to me and the children!” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter what the location of a site, carbon dating showed that it was occupied between 13,500 and 12,900 years ago. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

A young chess master, a few years Bobby’s senior, was calling from the office phone of the Marshall Chess Club, attempting to talk Fischer into getting together. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Could they have imagined it would be years? Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

His day would come, he believed, in the 1,500 four years later. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

Looking for all the world as he had seventeen years ago when he had called her pig meat He was twenty-one then, she twelve. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Gandalf was thinking of a spring, nearly eighty years before, when Bilbo had run out of Bag End without a handkerchief. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I’ve been trying to tell white women the truth about working for them since I was fourteen years old. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The first time he sees the sort of architecture he has read about for so many years, admired only in the pages of books and slides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

There she met Lieutenant Colonel Trotter, a stocky, dark-haired man whom Nancy had worked with for many years. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the next few years, Lolo might not be able to remember us, Merci. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

You ready for me, like I been ready for you all these years? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I have not seen Halmoni since I was four years old, so I can’t be quite sure of how death takes her even farther from me. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Right,” said Harry, crumpling up his first attempt and lobbing it over the heads of a group of chattering first years into the fire. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The day my uncle told me how my mother died, I was six years old. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“The cells were frozen over a hundred years ago.They can’t be as healthy as samples taken yesterday.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry had performed for six years in a row and told me it was a snap. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Though it had been only half a year, the Great Library had become memory, as though his mind had sorted his seven years there and archived them into a more distant past. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These sentences were imposed pursuant to California’s controversial three strikes law, which mandates a sentence of twenty-five years to life for recidivists convicted of a third felony, no matter how minor. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

In just over thirty-five years the American chestnut became a memory. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

At one end of the town stands a stark old stucco structure, the roof of which supports an electric sign— DANCE—but the dancing has ceased and the advertisement has been dark for several years. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are first going to Guangzhou, my seventy-two-year-old father, Canning Woo, and I, where we will visit his aunt, whom he has not seen since he was ten years old. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s made of rabbit skin, and she’s had it for seventeen years. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was laid down over ten thousand years ago by retreating glaciers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The first A is faded, as if it was inked years ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

We met at the house of Dr. Masla Pather, who would later be sentenced to two years in prison for allowing us to meet at his home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rehearsed this speech for twelve years. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"But don't forget what the Governor can do. He makes all the light in our city! We could never outshine him in a hundred years!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The organism remains viable in the soil for years and therefore be comes to all intents and purposes permanently established, increasing in effectiveness, and being continuously spread by natural agencies. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

That had happened years ago, when she was an undergraduate. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I study the time on Mom’s old watch—she was wearing it when her car sailed off the cliff two years ago, killing her on impact—as it ticks around my wrist. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Two years,” he said, looking out over the gardens. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s scary, but exciting too. And I love knowing that I’m doing things the people in my family even a hundred years ago used to do.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Wire-brush eyebrows, dusted with snow, rested atop a pair of eyes that looked thirty years younger than the face in which they were set. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Regina Wender Fischer, Bobby’s mother, was born in Switzerland and moved with her family to the United States when she was just two years old. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would probably take years for the ANC to control the levers of government, even after an election. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All that was left of the old Thebes was Harmonia’s necklace, which was taken to Delphi and for hundreds of years shown to the pilgrims there. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the girls around me nodded their heads in agreement, as if they weren’t insulting the next five years of their own education but somebody else’s. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

‘Twenty years is a long time to work a mule.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

In less than twelve years they baptized with the name Aureliano and the last name of the mother all the sons that the colonel had implanted up and down his theater of war: seventeen. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

After so many years, I was still moving. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

It was the first hint in two hundred years–in exactly two hundred years, in fact–that Newton’s laws might not apply all the time everywhere. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every other night they woke us to sign the documents sentencing us to twenty-five years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It had been two years since she had seen him. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

How does a few weeks of fencing compare with a champion’s years? Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Since the Indianapolis experiment was disbanded, which was about eight years ago. I could have integrated into the greater population, outside the experiments, but that felt too overwhelming.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I pack my notebooks that have been hidden underneath the refrigerator for two years, along with all my clothes into a big plastic garbage bag. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tens of millions of years of faces in a living room in a place called Arizona. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

It is a tower that stands tall and upending like a good soldier, for nearly four hundred years, not wobbling or falling down. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Everyone had lost loved ones, and no one looked quite the same as they had in our happier years in Uvira. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It took me another twenty years to accumulate the confidence to deal with what the equivalent experience would have to be for me. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mathematician Doris Cohen, a native New Yorker who started working at the laboratory in the late 1930s, was for many years the NACA’s lone female author. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Someone who is not ready will have to wait for the next group to be initiated, which could take 10 or 15 more years. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

A few years ago, Percy and she had gone on a quest in Daedalus’s labyrinth—a secret network of tunnels and rooms, heavily enchanted and trapped, which ran under all the cities of America. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Most of these items were over forty years old, and so free digital copies of them could be downloaded from the OASIS. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

After all those years I had learned nothing. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

In one sense those fourteen minutes tell the story of the next fifty years. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Fully aware that he was probably the first human in several thousand years to decode the magical words, Artemis switched on his desk light and began to read. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

His acceptance proved essential, since my trust in people had been so badly damaged in my early years. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

It would be an interesting and reflective way to reacquaint myself with the scale and beauty of my native land after nearly twenty years of living abroad. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

Two years later, the workings of the conspiracy, and its underlying intentions, were exposed during a trial in Chicago. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

A number of the butlers had worked for many years in the White House, tending to every family that came through. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I myself, just seven years old, was crouched on the floor at her feet, wearing pyjamas, dressing-gown and slippers. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

And a revolution it was indeed, although its course extended over several thousand years. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the first several years, I accepted the label. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z