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  • noun Plural form of yeare.

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Examples

  • Ffrom Epsham I went to Banstead where the parson of the Parish has diverted himself in his garden these fifty yeares, is now old and doates, but has Curious hedges, one Garden wth Grass plotts and Earth walks Cut and wedd.

    Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888

  • John Underhill wrote, [Indians] might fight seven yeares [sic] and not kill seven men. . .

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • John Underhill wrote, [Indians] might fight seven yeares [sic] and not kill seven men. . .

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • We have been using Marratech for over 4 yeares in a state-wide educational network.

    Google Has No Plans to Develop "Old Marratech" 2007

  • Ukraine President Leonid Kuchma on the closing of the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant, 14 yeares after it spawned the worst nuclear accident in history

    Perspectives 2000 2008

  • Initially, several yeares ago, perhaps they were getting it from stock market successes.

    04/03/2005 2005

  • The companies have been doing this for a number of yeares, starting with the candy bars, soda, etc.

    Mouse Print»Blog Archive » Hellmann’s Mayo: Introduces the 30 oz. Quart* 2006

  • Unckle of his, was left extraordinarily abounding in riches, and growing to yeares fitting for marriage, (as young Gallants are easily apt enough to do) he became enamored of a very bountifull

    The Decameron 2004

  • That I am a young man and a Philosophe, as Gisippus is; my yeares, face, and studies, without seeking after further proofe, doth sufficiently testifie: One selfe-same age is both his and mine, in like quality of course have wee lived and studied together.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Aged, and spent with yeares, as thou seest I am, I will goe live in thy house, and bee called by the name of Mithridanes.

    The Decameron 2004

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