A body could be lost up here for years.
A few years ago, I could have.
A full ten years older than his little brother, he'd raised Damian from the age of seven, after the death of their father.
A hundred years ago, Edith might have joined Annie, smiling her nights away at the Red Hat Saloon.
A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.
According to Martha, no one has been near that mine in years.
After a childhood filled with foster homes, she feared getting too comfortable, even in the home of the man who adopted her twelve years ago, when she was ten.
After a while, the two came downstairs chatting away as if they had been friends for years.
After a zillion years sleeping on the floor, I won't waste another night outside a real bed.
After all their years together, he didn't trust that she would do what she had to in order for them to be together.
After all these years, he still held regrets.
After all we've been through together the past few years, you should've been an open book.
After all, I was twenty-five years old.
After nearly two years of marriage, nothing had changed – absolutely nothing.
After Ralph died in 1980, I remembered our good times in Colorado forty years before when we were kids, and I started coming back.
After thousands of years alone, she inherited a mate and a family over the course of a single night.
After twenty or thirty years of marriage, they would still be alone together, whether or not they had any children.
All he had to do was sell one of the original pieces of artwork displayed casually in the marble foyer and he'd be fine for years.
All I know he hasn't skied in the fifteen years I've known him.
All you have to do is find out what property 'Mrs. Cummings' owned a hundred years ago.
Although older, his own name was present under Damian's, as if it had been erased during the long years of his slavery and newly added.
And Dad, worn out from working the farm all day; disgruntled by years of fighting a losing battle with nature - of never having enough money to take care of his family properly.
And if you had met her all those years ago, do you think you would have?
And if you'd gone down there one of the zillion times he's invited you in the last two years, he wouldn't feel obligated to come up now.
And yet he knew he couldn't turn his back on the quest—there were too many cop years and too much history in the make up of David Dean.
And you Mr. Parrish, have been living with your head in the sand for a hundred-fifty years.
And you randomly assign him new moms every few dozen years and then send Gabriel to pick them off at the end.
Angels are mortals' allies, but they can't appreciate the intricacies of mortals without the years of exposure.
Anyway, I suppose I owe him something for the three years he bossed me around.
Are you going to be happy a few years from now, knowing what you gave up?
As Kris.s confidante of several hundred years, he knew most of the Immortal.s secrets.
At five years into her rule and mere days from war, was she already toppling down the path of madness?
At least he was, years ago, and he's moved back here.
At least Randy and Jen had years of history together, most of their education behind them, and what would ultimately prove to be supportive parents.
At twenty-six years old, she must've done something pretty bad in a past life to deserve this.
Aunt Helen died a few years later.
Based on her medical records, the tumor didn't grow until she hit puberty and didn't interfere with her ability to function before a few years ago, Wynn started.
Before she started to drift into an in-between place, she saw Darian stand and look around, awake for the first time in thousands of years.
Besides, Edith had the pen in her possession so he lacked any opportunity to change it back to the color she used years earlier when she wrote the suicide note.
Besides, if you buy her story of years of happy marriage, it doesn't point to any untoward reason for Dawkins to seek her out before meeting her.
Brady had worked with Dan for fifteen years.
Brandon's feelings about the event were intense, even after all those years.
Brenda had been handling all Alex's investments for years, so Carmen left that part to her.
Bumpin' Bertha here doesn't make very good time but she's been getting the job done for a lot of years.
But it took a good many years for them to grow as large and fine as they are now.
But Ryland's personal knowledge of her was limited to a couple rolls in the hay a dozen years ago.
But she remembered everything from the past twenty-six years.
But that doesn't mean we didn't love each other or have a super twelve years together.
But you sent him into the middle of Hell for thousands of years.
Cancer. She died thirteen years ago.
Carmen was only two years younger than Josh, so it was no surprise that they had become inseparable playmates.
Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.
Claire's been on the European front for a hundred years.
Class loyalties run deep, and he called me up about twenty years ago and said he was calling in a favor my dad owed him.
Couldn't the CBI guys over in their Denver lab tell the suicide note was written years before?
Cynthia served a pot roast, simple but delicious, reminding Dean of Sundays in years gone by.
Damian had taken his place when betrayal rendered Darian near-dead then enslaved to a madman for thousands of years.
Darian didn't remember it any more than he remembered much of the thousands of years he spend enslaved by Jonny's predecessor.
Darkyn has been spinning out of control for many years.
David Dean was 38 years old and the only unmarried detective.
Dean "attended" college, served in the military, and was employed by the Parkside, Pennsylvania Police Department for fifteen years.
Dean considered a further prompt, but a dozen years of dealing with attorneys taught him it would be both unsuccessful and unwise.
Dean had run Fred's prints, but as Fred pointed out, it had been many years ago.
Dean recalled his own father's death when he was 12 years old and how well his mother had brought him through the ordeal.
Dean reiterated the obvious—Burgess was less than positive and the picture he sort-of identified was years old.
Dean thought back to the fifteen years the two of them had shared similar meals and chores, with each sure he was doing more work than the other.
Deidre bought the lights she'd wanted for years.
Deidre looked around, struck by how different the place she lived for two years felt.
Deidre, you were Death for let's say, a zillion years.
Destiny would be two years old before long.
Detective David Dean had been seeing Attorney Ethel Rosewater three or four times a month for more than two years.
Did he want to live two hundred years?
During those years no man had shared her life, but just before Dean was released from the Army, he received surprising word of his mother's second marriage.
Dusty didn't know if a few months of Darian having his own mind back were enough to erase thousands of years under the control of another.
Edith's managed to slip out and meet me a half dozen times over the years, but that's it.
Even after thousands of years he was reliving the pain of his brother's death.
Even his many years absence from visiting Ouray no longer eliminated him as a suspect now that the age of the bones was uncertain.
Even if Lilith wasn't meant to be his mate, she didn't deserve such a brutal death. She didn't deserve death at all. Instead of mourning a son, Kris could've spent the past few thousand years raising a successor.
Even Mr. Tim had abandoned her after years of mentoring her.
Every few years, he had to move anyway; they all did, for security reasons.
Except for a few years of working at Wal-Mart, she had been able to stay on the farm.
Except I can't remember anything beyond my twenty-six years.
Fifteen years later he was still there.
Fine. I am three hundred and twelve years old.
Fitzgerald listed a college degree, birth in Ouray, and nineteen years in law enforcement, the last eleven in administrative duty.
For the first time in years, he doubted himself.
For the first time in years, he felt whole again.
For the first time in years, he found himself wondering what it would be like to feel again.
Forty years old and having a baby!
Four years ago, she and Dean were a weekly item, as they say.
Fred married my mother years after dad passed away.
Fred O'Connor hasn't had this much fun in 20 years!
From their years together, he knew the cryptic response was the best he'd get.
Gabriel knew the secrets of all seven from interacting with them over the years.
Gabriel squinted, unaccustomed to so much light after all his years in the underworld.
Gabriel was reminded of the many times he'd expressed something human to the goddess he'd loved for thousands of years.
God love him—he had followed the Boston Red Sox for sixty years and couldn't even dream of ever being there himself.
God, that was nearly ten years ago!
Ha. He's the last one to sit in judgment after all the crazy things he's pulled through the years.
He and Burgess learned they'd both biked in the same 100-mile fund raiser two years earlier, before Dean caught a case of the lazies.
He began to understand her reluctance to be involved with him and how thick the walls around her heart were, if she spent the years since the Schism learning how to shut people and emotion out.
He bought the land in chunks over the years.
He could search years and never find a woman like you.
He couldn't help feeling angry with the goddess who set this all up or escape the emotion he felt knowing his mate was the woman he'd loved for thousands of years.
He couldn't hold a candle to my real father—the one who was there for me all those years.
He cried for the first time since his mother had passed away 15 years earlier.
He did the math—married seven years, divorced ten years— depending on her age when she married, she might be a young-looking forty.
He didn't answer to her anymore, as he had for thousands of years.
He doubted his night – or his next few thousand years – was going to get any better than this.
He faced Sasha, recalling the years they'd spent together.
He grieved for years and Sarah worried for a time that he might find someone to stake him.
He had a son who was a hot shot baseball player and I played two years in the minors.
He had tried to teach her to play the piano many times through the years, but she always became bored within a week or so of practice and gave up.
He hadn't expected anything different when he met the reincarnated Deidre a few years ago and started down this path.
He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.
He hasn't seen us in years.
He highlighted some of the teenage antidrug and alcohol programs he'd worked with over the years.
He knew Jared well enough after all their years in Hell together to understand the creature was too narcissistic to care about another.s issues.
He knew who I was when we first talked at the basketball game, but it was years later he told me about it.
He knew without Martha's map he'd never remember the various turns he and Cynthia had taken to where the skeleton had reposed for over fifty years.
He lay back and closed his eyes, trying to picture the sad death, the end of the sad life of a woman, now resurrected to importance after a hundred years of total obscurity.
He left a note—a damn note after 12 stinking years!
He made her feel like she wasn't alone for the first time in years.
He recognized the procedure but hadn't heard of it being used since before his brother, Darian, had died thousands of years ago.
He touched her face, exhausted for the first time in years.
He was around Ouray for ten years or so.
He was hundreds of thousands of mortal years old, but less than half a dozen in angel years.
He was probably thinking years ahead and wanted Carmen to handle it in event of his death.
He was the most talented player the small Ouray school had produced in years.
He was there for seven years.
He was twenty years older than me, born into his position.
He wasn't about to lose her or the chance to build a life with the woman he'd loved for tens of thousands of years.
He watched for quite a while, until the model reached a level that had taken him years of apprenticeship under his father to achieve.
He wore bathing trunks, a Phillies baseball cap and a t-shirt with the imprint "Eastern PA Century Bicycle Tour" and a date four years earlier.
He would never feed on a woman under 21 years old.
He would.ve been content to stay in his cottage for another hundred years or never again visit the mortal world.
He'd been fevered for a zillion years, trapped in the tiny cell in ever-changing forms, always in darkness.
He'd been the one to deliver his friend to Hell many years ago.
He'd given it to her hundreds of years ago.
He'd given me 20 years of marriage.
He'd lost her as soon as he finally won her, all because he couldn't control the spells he still suffered from his years in slavery.
He'd not had to work too hard for confessions in the past thousand years, not after word of his cold, methodological skills leaked to the Guardians.
He'd only been here once, years before, but he told me he owned land and one day he'd settle in the town.
He'd stuck by her for over three years, though.
He'd tucked away the necklace thousands of years ago after finding it among the pieces of his brother's body.
He's about 19 years old and built like a Greek god.
He's been after bad guys for thousands of years, and he's never gone to the Dark Side or quit or anything.
He's been doing it for many years.
He's been in Hell for hundreds of thousands of years.
He's been my friend for almost t…ten years.
He's helped me through a lot over the past few years.
He's loved you for like, a million years.
He's put up with my attitude for a lot of years.
He's seven years old and he's never experienced a normal family situation.
Her mate and father were near the same age, over double her eighteen years.
Her mother and father had tried for years and finally had been successful.
His cabin was tiny, two rooms, with the walls lined with weapons he'd collected over the years.
His clothing was pressed and his appearance spry despite his almost sixty years.
His dark eyes and caramel features seemed much older than his nineteen years.
His friend of many years stopped well out of earshot and touched the net implant.
His gaze settled on Jade's familiar features, and he studied his companion of so many years.
His lover of many years sensed his unease and waited for him to speak.
His own father hadn't mated with his mother for ten years, until after Darian's birth.
His world was one of confusion, his memories overwhelming as the dam that had been in place for thousands of years crumbled.
How could she forget after only two years?
How do you think she would feel if she was three years old and someone she didn't know could take her away from everything she loved?
How long had it been since he had been jilted - five years?
How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?
How many pints of fruits and vegetables had been processed in this kitchen over the years?
I am the same friend you've had the past few years.
I can probably get close with a few years of research, but not in two months.
I couldn't find nothing on Josh without a last name, but Ed Plotke was in the phone book for six years between 1956 and 1962.
I did for many, many years.
I did you the favor of running your prints years ago.
I don't give a damn about what might have happened years ago!
I drove the trip for fifteen years, when I started coming back to Ouray again.
I figured it out when I rediscovered her in the human world a few years ago.
I fought side by side with his older brother years ago at the end of the war; I know the type of honor that runs in his family.
I guess what made the biggest impression was watching you and her over the course of thousands of years.
I had a brother Bobbie, ten years older than me.
I have to admit, I have thought of you many times over the years, probably would have hooked up with you again if it were not for Jackson's threats.
I haven't been up that way in years.
I haven't biked for years.
I haven't lived for millions of years in your world, but I believe Rhyn here would have to die permanently so his claim on me was nullified.
I haven't put up with you for fifteen years not to know when you're worried.
I just strolled around town, trying to imagine Annie doing the same thing, a hundred years ago.
I know you haven't driven in 15 years!
I left many years ago and haven't gone back.
I looked up the ownership but the records were nearly fifty years old.
I mean, I don't know anything about March fourth but I know Jeff hasn't been sick for years and years.
I met Gabe, and he took me to Andre, who raised me for a few years, before my brothers decided I was better off in Hell, he summarized.
I might have pulled your leg a time or two, but we've got along pretty good over the years keeping stuff to ourselves.
I never pressed him about it in the fifteen years we roomed together.
I only have twenty-six years' worth of memories, thanks to Darkyn.
I passed that mark a few hundred thousand years ago.
I rented a room from his mother for years when I'd visit out here summers.
I see him every few dozen years, usually when he's coming to kill my mama.
I spent enough time out here a few years ago.
I spent thousands of years and broke the Code twice.
I spent two years on the bench and never played a down until the last game of my junior year.
I think a few years from now or twenty years from now I'll wish I had children, but I don't think I'll ever regret marrying Alex.
I thought she had years to go.
I told him for years to take notes so our other scientists can pick up wherever he left off.
I waited tens of thousands of years for one of us to have the mating tattoo appear.
I was a cop for a lot of years.
I was born, wandered the Immortal world for the first few years.
I was so busy following the road map I made so many years ago that I didn't notice it was outdated.
I went off to college and messed around some—did all the stuff you're supposed to do at that age—but when I came back home ten years later, Paul's wife had died.
I wouldn't have spent years grooming you for this type of event if I didn't believe in you.
I'd known him for a few years, even if it was only in passing.
I'll update your address list virtually over the next few years.
I'm an Immortal, and Gabriel has moved on after thousands of years at your feet.
I'm going-- " "He's gone weak after all these years at battle and lost sight of winning back our planet!
I'm not going to open this up—to anyone— and cause Cynthia Byrne years of doubt on suspicions, no matter how strong our feelings become.
I'm really just humoring Fred— rewarding him for his first idea in years that isn't totally harebrained.
I'm sure she felt something for you, Gabriel. A woman doesn't take a man to her bed for thousands of years and not feel something for him.
I've been expecting you for years.
I've been spying on the thoughts of humanity for thousands of years.
I've been visiting the San Juans every summer now for the last twenty years.
I've eliminated innumerable enemies of yours the past few years.
I've seen a lot during my years as a doctor.
I've seen you once in 13 years and you were in a lineup.
If anyone would know happenings forty years ago, those guys would.
If he hadn't saved that nobleman's child years ago, you'd have been sold on the auction block, her mother said.
If I knew three years ago, I might not have trusted Wynn.
If I live to be a thousand years old I'll never understand them.
If I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never understand it.
If it's hereditary, then the mutation has been hidden from us for, like, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.
If the court thinks there's any possibility Jeff's alive, I'd have to wait years and years.
If there's a serious doubt, the heirs may have to wait a good long time, even seven years.
If they don't belong to Josh Mulligan, they could be years older than the 1960's.
If your bones belong to someone who impregnated a young girl years ago, why do you care now?
Images of Kris, his only love in two thousand years, swam through his thoughts.
Impressive. Haven't seen one in a few thousand years.
In a couple of years, I won't have so many problems searching the memories. It'll be instantaneous, like that! he said and snapped his fingers.
In all his years in Hell, he.d never known this kind of pain.
In all his years, he'd never seen anything like her.
In all the years he.d served her, she.d never owned him until three weeks ago.
In all the years she had known him, he had never said that to her – or anyone else in her presence.
In four hundred thousand years, he hadn't learned to answer a phone right?
In the last few years she had been making all the decisions about her farm.
In years long gone it was the rail bed for the line that ran to terminus in Ouray and now a favorite path for bikers.
Instead of a slow, fifty year death, it'll be three years.
It gets to be a habit after all these years.
It had been the mildest late winter in years and the lack of high country snow had opened the Jeep roads weeks earlier than usual.
It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.
It had been where Wynn, the father of all the Immortals on the Council, had lain for hundreds of years before being dragged out by Sasha, the son who betrayed them all to Darkyn.
It had been years since he'd heard a woman's compassion.
It is only really about twenty years old.
It looks like a hole in the ground that hasn't been touched in thirty years or more.
It must be nice to only have a birthday once every four years.
It seems like years since I saw you last.
It showed a good looking, much younger man, as Dean guessed it dated from when Byrne was first employed, 15 years earlier.
It took me a couple of years to realize God had answered my prayer the first time.
It was a young man's—or woman's—game, although Dean doubted he'd have joined the contest, at least not willingly, even in his careless years.
It was as if rescuing these long forgotten remains from oblivion would somehow prove such a resurrection from years of absolute dark and loneliness would make anything possible.
It was five years ago with a lithe red head named Ellen for a Vermont weekend.
It was not until years later after his mother too was gone that he realized the grief and confusion she must have felt.
It was one of the many oddities about her father that she'd accepted over the years.
It was over fifty years later.
It was something normal people did during this time of year, something she'd done every year for twenty-three years.
It was two years ago and one of my roommates yanked my long, golden blonde hair.
It wasn't a new sight—he'd spent far too many years as a police officer not to have seen it, uncounted but never forgotten times.
It will take years for them to come back to life at this elevation.
It would be years before she could afford to remodel it.
It.s the way things have been for millions of years!
It's been calm for the past few hundred years, but I don't think any of us have forgotten that five hundred year period where we were at each other's throats.
It's been like that since—God, junior high school—six, seven years!
It's been ten years since I first told you this.
It's not a new picture—ten or fifteen years old.
It's taken thousands of years, but I'm glad you finally showed up.
Jackson had developed quite a discerning palate over the years.
Jackson had lost count of the times she found 'The One', only to have her heart broken months or years later.
Jake wiped his mouth the way he did when he'd admitted to cheating on her four years ago.
Jeff Byrne had worked for World Wide for 15 years and seemed at least content with the work he was doing.
Jeff used to ride, years ago.
Jenn took planning to another level, one he didn't know was possible after so many years without technology.
Just when I start to like you … you know, it's amazing even a man who's thousands of years old can act like a twelve-year-old.
Katie contemplated Carmen with eyes wiser than her twenty years.
Katie was born about seven years after me.
Kiera managed a hurt tone and rolled on her side to frown at her blurry best friend of fifteen years.
Kris's features clouded, and Gabriel suspected it was because Kris had been with his current lover, Jade, for hundreds of years.
Let's say the mine was closed up for years and only recently broken into.
Living for three years after a diagnosis of dying in a month weird?
Long-buried rage was bubbling upward, along with the tiny instinct he'd squashed thousands of years ago.
Lord knows what he did to Donnie over the years to cause the boy to despise him so.
Lori's been drooling over him for years.
Maybe I sound like a jerk, but it's been ten years since we were an item and I've got a life now.
Maybe in a few years, if we don't have any of our own, we can adopt a child.
Maybe it was the years he spent as a salesman.
Mid-morning sun warmed Gabriel's face, drawing him out of the deepest slumber he'd experienced in years.
Monica Cutler had performed every duty but setting type at the Parkside Sentinel for the past 20 years.
More sense than the idea she was a deity for thousands of years.
Most of their friends were local to Maid Marian Lane where they had lived for nine years.
Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds had three girls, Joan, Mary and Alice – in that order and each born two years after the other, more or less.
Mr. Westlake never married and taught high school history for thirty years.
Mums was her first choice because of confidentiality issues, but there probably wasn't much romance at her age and after so many years of marriage.
My love, we've been destined for each other since I wed your brother thousands of years ago.
My relatives have been dead for many years.
Never mind he spent three years constantly riding the bench, hoping against hope for a miracle, as he practiced, cheered and hustled with unbridled enthusiasm.
No one found the remains for forty years!
No, the water fight goes back years and years.
None of these had been touched in years, from what we can tell.
Not if she was twenty-five years old and in love with him.
Not many people thought differently of the first Ancient Immortal, who had led the Council with six of his sons for many years before being killed.
Not really, a hundred years of practice and you would play just as well.
Not sure how, when you've been nagging me for thousands of years.
Now, after twelve years of being in the system, foster homes were scarce.
Of course, she'd spent the last twenty years in the competitive upper-class circles, learning how to keep out of the way of those who would use her to get to Mr. Tim.
Oh, to have had this instinct years ago, when she met Wynn!
On the other hand, Joan and Sean had been married almost thirty years and they got along well.
One of my most expensive shirts with the pants that went out of season five years ago.
Our European front has been growing progressively weaker the past hundred years.
Our families have fought side by side for over fifty years.
Our path won't be easy, but we didn't spend thousands of years trying to be together not to take the chance we have now.
Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old.
Physically, he was feeling a whole lot better than he had in years.
Probably for the same reason it had been for him so many years.
Rainy, a brooding Guardian with striking green eyes and a shock of dark hair, was his youngest station chief at a youthful two thousand years old.
Ralph's been dead for years and a son runs the business now.
Reminiscent of the Civil War fifty years ago, only the PMF is being blamed.
Rhyn faced the sarcophagus, surprised to see his father looked as he had when he last saw him thousands of years before.
Rhyn had become like a brother to him, and the idea of killing his mate reopened wounds that hadn.t bled since he stood in this place thousands of years before.
Rhyn listened to his brother pad away in the soft sand. He'd spent thousands of years in Hell wishing to be dead-dead. Tomorrow, he'd have his chance.
Rhyn's mortal was convinced of this. She said Gabriel had been the lover of Death for thousands of years.
Sackler and DeLeo, partners for nearly 12 years, had more in common than their constant arguing would suggest.
Sarah had only seen him cry twice through all the years.
Scranton, Pennsylvania is one of those eastern cities whose past glories were years earlier than the memory of any living citizen.
Seems it's been rented for years.
Sensitive to the light after years in the underworld, his head felt like it was going to explode.
She also said you were lovers for a short time many years ago.
She did remember bringing him back from the dead ten years before in order to help her with her plan and how cold he'd been to her then.
She didn't want that to be true of Wynn, who had helped her for years.
She had been taking care of everything to do with their homes for the last few years, so that was familiar territory.
She had given up years ago trying to convince him to let the rest of the world see that side.
She hadn't cried in years, unless it was out of pain from a particularly bad beating.
She has a hundred and fifty years on him, and she just turned him.
She hated not being able to read his mind and see his thoughts, the way she had for the thousands of years they served the underworld together.
She knew when he lied; she'd spent twenty years with him.
She leaned into him again, this time whispering husky words that would've made him blush years ago.
She looked at the grays, the clothing she'd seen for years on the people she thought were the country's enemies, then back at Brady.
She recalled nothing beyond her human age of twenty-six years.
She took the hint but wondered who had hurt him so badly that he still bore a grudge thousands of years later.
She waited thousands of years and worked with both Dark Ones to make it happen.
She was fully a part of him when they touched, as if he'd been missing more than a piece of his soul all these years and just now realized it.
She was two years old - ready for the pot, anyway.
She was two years younger then.
She wouldn't be two years old until December.
She'd been on the verge of death for years.
She'd been trying for years to have his voluntary service revoked.
She'd last dressed up for Hannah's engagement party two years ago.
She'd let down her guard to Darian after thousands years of rebuffing everyone else and had woken up feeling recharged, confused.
She'd lived there for four years --almost as long as the kid had been alive.
She'd spent the past four hundred years in college, gleefully learning more and more and working out of the lab he'd funded for her.
Shipton had used a gnarled cedar, years dead, as an anchor for his line.
Shorty, you stay out of this or I'll tan your hide the way I should have done years ago.
So, you mean in a million years we'll have gray hair and wrinkles?
Something about him made her feel comfortable, or she wouldn't be sitting alone with a man dressed like the angel of death on the beach after dark, revealing secrets she didn't tell her boyfriend of two years.
Sometimes it takes a long time and a lot of praying, but I'm living proof it can happen even after many years.
Speck shifted away from him, a response Dusty was accustomed to after thousands of years as Damian's lead executioner.
Still, goats and sheep had been in North America for hundreds of years.
Switching the bones and killing him in the first place are two different acts—forty years apart.
Telluride's sixty-six trails, spread over more than a thousand acres, were an awesome change from the crowded slopes Dean had skied in the East in years gone by.
That he understood now how he needed to break rules from time-to-time to preserve his domain was gratifying after years of him judging her for it.
That she was a deity, Death, who lived for thousands of years … None of that made sense.
That was nearly seven years ago.
That young man has been in the water fight for years.
That's been a dry hole for sixty years, Roger said.
That's over fifty years ago!
That's the number of Guardians you've killed directly with your actions over the past few thousand years.
That's what they've been doing for the past three years.
The bones are probably forty years old.
The building stood there, gazing down on the quiet town like some magnificent matron, watching over her citizens as she had for a hundred years.
The couple had recently moved back to Fairhaven, in rural New England, after years away.
The deep part of the pool was small, but years of practice had taught her where to land.
The demons remaining were all young and loyal, trained by him over the years.
The energy around them was lively; they were brothers whose bond was formed during their years in the bowels of hell.
The feds sealed off the Mississippi using the equipment left over from the war fifty years ago.
The guest bedroom has been ready for visitors since my daughter died ten years ago.
The human I created twenty six years ago.
The human lived here for a few years with a boyfriend that one of Darkyn's demons killed.
The Immortal who posed as her only friend and surgeon for years – who also nearly killed her – stood before her.
The knowledge made her want to scream, knowing she'd spent years blindly letting him talk to her like this and encourage her with pretty words, while he ensured the tumor in her head killed her.
The land went to his wife but then she died a few years later.
The last civil war set us back fifty years.
The Lucky Pup has apparently been sealed up for the last forty years until someone—kids, we think—broke into the mine this spring.
The man hiding in the corner of her mind, he whose death plagued Damian for thousands of years.
The manor house had been built several hundred years ago, and every room but hers was a reflection of her father's wealth.
The mine was sealed up for years.
The neighborhood had slowly changed over the years.
The old truck was still parked where Josh had left it when he towed it home for her nearly two years ago.
The ones he had run into over the years smelled awful, like a wet dog.
The reports went back nearly three years and listed dates, locations and dollars expended, with each entry carefully and manually recording names, locations, reasons for visits and persons present.
The same woman who would die in twenty-three years from ovarian cancer.
The small woman was one Gabe had known for years.
The trunks had been there for two years with no one touching them.
The two stayed together through the years, even attempting to be lovers once, though they quickly realized theirs was a relationship of brother and sister.
The two-story home had been built in the depression years and although there was little land around it, it was comfortable, well constructed and had answered Dean's limited needs—at least "temporarily"—for the past 15 years.
The white Appaloosa would be three years old in July.
The winter had been exceptionally clear of late snow and the high mountain passes that in many years remained closed until July had been cleared weeks earlier this spring.
The words were familiar, the same words he'd spoken to Dusty thousands of years ago, when he'd discovered the youth who was not yet a man on a slave trader's block, bloodied and weeping for the family he'd just lost.
The years of habitation gave the place a thousand smells, none of them pleasant.
Their only boy came along unexpectedly nine years later.
Their war, it's been going on for thousands of years.
Then I looked up the Pinkville newspaper but it was merged into a countywide paper four years ago.
Then she asked, Why do you say the bones are forty years old?
There are a few creatures I've collected over the years that interest me.
There was a biography on him from some local storage shed association that made him some kind of muck a muck a few years back.
There was a reason he banned thoughts of Darian and Claire from his mind, an instinct he'd never been able to face in all the years since Darian's death.
There was no permanent damage to head or elbow but Dean was beginning to feel his years.
They became great friends over the years.
They crossed Canyon Creek and the site of an avalanche a few years earlier, now evidenced by the rubble of broken, twisted trees and displaced earth.
They had been happily married for twenty years.
They had discussed choosing one surname many years back, but their names were the only connection that remained to their human lives, so decided against it.
They had stayed close by their homes, watching unseen, for a few years, until it became too painful.
They looked much younger, so it must have been taken years ago and some pictures of a boy and a girl.
They mature slowest of all Immortals, but when they hit certain points in angel years, they jump to the next human stage of maturity, Helga said.
They smell like they spent years on the ground.
They were both now forty years old.
They were only here four or five years in the late fifties, Charlie said.
They'd been in the mine for forty years.
They'd been married two years now and this was the first time he had mentioned it.
They'd been patient, setting up their ultimate victory over the course of tens of thousands of years.
They'd had a falling out a few hundred years before and hadn't spoken since.
They'd make it a game night or sit around getting wasted on twenty-year old scotch recounting countless, crazy times they had through the years.
They've been working for millions of years to get around this one; they're quite crafty at it.
This compass is only a few thousand years old.
This felt so different than all the years of just him and Sarah.
This is the first time we've had an honest discussion in about a million years.
This very moment she would choose Alex - but what about twenty years from now, when it was too late to have children?
This was the doctor who stuck by her for years after her diagnosis.
This would be the first year he'd gone into the negative in a thousand of years.
Thought you'd learned something after all those years in Hell.
Thousands of years hadn't given him much insight into a woman's way of thinking, but this he knew without a doubt.
Thousands of years later, Jenn could still see her daughter's brown eyes and curls.
Thousands of years of love-hate memories left him conflicted.
Thousands of years of repressed fury bubbled within him.
Tim and Jim were thirteen months old going on three years.
To the three of them, the drastic changes that occurred over such a short time span after thousands of years of no change were a warning sign.
Two women couldn't room together for fifteen years and, in some ways, remain virtual strangers.
Unmarked and no one could tie it to him in a hundred years!
Very honorable of you to give her a choice of being with you after how she treated you all those years.
Vinnie Baratto was the star running back for three years.
We couldn't have been happier, and it never changed for a moment for the whole twelve years before he died.
We don't talk about those years very much—my life before I met you.
We got his picture—even if it is a few years old—and my money says he hasn't changed much.
We will have to leave in ten years or so anyway.
We've been married 20 years and...
We've been through for hundreds of years.
We've never been able to transform a vamp into a human in thousands of years.
Well judging from your art collection and furnishings at Fairhaven I would guess you're about a hundred and fifty years old.
Well, he had been for many years.
What am I, five years old?
What are the odds of her meeting this guy and being the daughter of his mine manager from twenty years earlier and a thousand miles away?
What if he had met her years ago?
What if the silly, innocent, clueless little girl you spent years lying to actually had something that you need to leave here?
What she knew was that her father and his lies had skewed her outlook on her world for ten years.
Whatever happened occurred forty years ago.
Whatever it was, I apologize for hurting you so much that you bore a grudge for thousands of years.
When we married, I was twenty-eight and he was fifty-two—nearly twice my age—two years older than my father!
Who spent the last million years in Hell, thanks to Kris.
Who would have guessed three years ago that she would be running Elk and buffalo on her land?
Why go back into the mine after all these years and take the chance of swapping the bones and getting caught?
Willoughby's was old hardwood and brass under 70 years of bad breath and nicotine, catering to a tenth the crowd of bygone days.
With a frown, she wondered why she'd never seen it before, why she wasted seven years trying to make things work with someone who couldn't hold a candle to the man she was meant to be with.
With a sinking heart, he realized he.d lost the Jade who.d been his friend and lover for a few hundred years.
With Claire's death, he'd avenged his brother and righted the wrong made thousands of years ago.
Worse, they'd never run across this type of issue in all their years.
Yeah. Do their heirs have to wait seven years or something like that?
Yeah. There's things that happened a hundred years ago and are best left be.
Years ago he had been jilted at the altar by a girl he thought he loved.
Years from now, when he was comfortably ensconced in his Ouray, Colorado bed and breakfast, he'd often look back on this day as the turning point in his life, but for now it was only the start of yet another five work days.
Years later Dean would think back to this first time he saw Cynthia Byrne.
Yes, but I have had a hundred and fifty-eight years to sow my wild oats.
Yet try as he may, he didn't know the names of the three little kids next door, who'd come trick-or-treating for a half dozen years, sold Girl Scout cookies and always smiled—and they knew his name.
You are looking well, Zamon, for being a million years old.
You can't fix a war that's been on for hundreds of thousands of years.
You can't know what it's like to even have a hint something like that is true—that someone you lived with for 20 years....
You could have done something about the skeleton years before now.
You could probably fix a date within a few years at least.
You couldn't be a cop for fourteen years and not look death in the face and recognize its gruesome glare.
You extended my life over three years after the others said I had a few months.
You get a new one every eighty years or something?
You have flirted with Death for three years now.
You know, I never once heard him bitch in all the years he worked for me.
You remember what I've taught you all these years?
You took his heart and crushed it, like every day for thousands of years.
You were born two years apart.
You'd think after oh, a few thousand years, you'd remember, Jule.
You're pretty much all that held me together over the years.
You've accompanied me there on the few days I've gotten to relax over the past few years.
You've been coming to Ouray for twenty years.
You've had tens of thousands of years to get rid of me.
You've lived on your terms the past few years.
Your amnesia is trauma induced from the rape you survived six years ago.