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Definition of 'years'

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Noun

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  • * 1981 , May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers , said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
    • It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
  • * {{quote-magazine|year=2013|month=September-October|author= Katie L. Burke
    • |magazine=(American Scientist)|title= In the News |passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
  • (colloquial|hyperbole) An unusually long time.

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    * (unusually long time) ages, yonks, for ever,

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