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Example sentences for "several years"

  • He was a single man, several years my senior, of a kind and gentle spirit, given to books and a fair Preacher.

  • Several years ago, she divided into two bands, and has now two good Churches, two good congregations, and two able Ministers.

  • After leaving this position he re-entered the regular work in the Cincinnati Conference, from the ranks of which he passed on, several years ago, to the companionship of the white-robed in Heaven.

  • Several years after, I heard the good brother relate the circumstance in a Love Feast, when he took occasion to say the visit was the most refreshing he had ever experienced.

  • Several years after he removed to Fond du Lac, and greatly prospered in business.

  • A young couple had been courting for several years, and the young man seemed to be in no hurry to marry.

  • Only yesterday I heard of a murder committed on a man for an old grudge of several years' standing.

  • Several years previous he had made an attempt to escape, but failed.

  • But the Magistrates are not to go on year after year passing his accounts, and then, at the end of several years, come and call upon me to make good the deficiencies.

  • However, the Baron was a staunch churchman as this fact clearly proves: several years he had become what they call an Unitarian.

  • This was nothing new to me; for I was well informed of it several years ago, though I had never heard him speak of it in my life.

  • Never let us forget that Socrates before his judges asserted that "his persecution originated in the licensed raillery of Aristophanes, which had so unduly influenced the popular mind during several years!

  • A chasm of several years remains to be filled.

  • To these he was perpetually reverting, which he showed when after a lapse of several years, he could not rest till he had burned his ill-fated odes.

  • A severe drought, affecting almost the entire colony for several years, caused great depression of trade, and many farmers suffered severely.

  • In the present day, the nautical ephemerides contain, several years in advance, the indication of the times of the eclipses and reappearances of Jupiter's satellites.

  • The discovery of the third law was not effected until, several years afterwards, Kepler announced it to the world in his treatise on Harmonics (1628).

  • It ought to be thoroughly tested by the experience of several years.

  • I had the frequent company of my associates on the corps, all of whom were bright, able men, several years in advance of me in age.

  • A committee of our friends, several years ahead of us in American experience, put their heads together and concocted American names for us all.

  • Several years since I had a few stocks well supplied with bees, and every indication of swarming present, such as clustering out, &c.

  • But what becomes of all the bees raised in the course of several years?

  • Several years ago, I thought I had obtained a principle that would revolutionize the whole system of bee management.

  • Whether the magazine is current or several years old, the chances are that it is Gourmet and that the article is a review by Jay Jacobs, Gourmet's New York restaurant critic since 1972.

  • The biggest story Maas never wrote was a book about the shah of Iran; several years ago he turned down an offer of $1 million for the project in order to concentrate on his novel.

  • Several years later he became an editorial assistant for the Times.

  • The author has laboured under the difficulty of attempting to remain "overpowered" during a period of several years.

  • Several years ago I started out to get rid of the chestnut blight.

  • Several years ago I got a hundred pounds of chestnuts down in Illinois.

  • He was agent of the Dismal Swamp Land Company for several years, and may have been the first after the Jericho canal was opened.

  • It is an institution that has been established for several years, and has received a liberal support from its friends.

  • Godfrey, "I passed through a portion of it several years ago to locate some lands on the Nottoway river, and as there appears to be some dispute about the titles, I am on my way to look after it.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    county courts; judicial tribunal; little excitement; poor opinion; several churches; several cities; several families; several gentlemen; several hundred; several important; several inches; several islands; several members; several others; several people; several points; several rows; several sorts; several specimens; several states; several thousands; several times; several weeks; thick batter; went forth; what you might call