Years in A Sentence

    1

    A body could be lost up here for years.

    2

    A few years ago, I could have.

    3

    A full ten years older than his little brother, he'd raised Damian from the age of seven, after the death of their father.

    4

    A hundred years ago, Edith might have joined Annie, smiling her nights away at the Red Hat Saloon.

    5

    A hundred years ago, there had been a homestead known as Thistle Farm there, but no remnants remained.

    6

    According to Martha, no one has been near that mine in years.

    7

    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.

    8

    After a while, the two came downstairs chatting away as if they had been friends for years.

    9

    After a zillion years sleeping on the floor, I won't waste another night outside a real bed.

    10

    After all their years together, he didn't trust that she would do what she had to in order for them to be together.

    11

    After all these years, he still held regrets.

    12

    After all we've been through together the past few years, you should've been an open book.

    13

    After all, I was twenty-five years old.

    14

    After nearly two years of marriage, nothing had changed – absolutely nothing.

    15

    After Ralph died in 1980, I remembered our good times in Colorado forty years before when we were kids, and I started coming back.

    16

    After thousands of years alone, she inherited a mate and a family over the course of a single night.

    17

    After twenty or thirty years of marriage, they would still be alone together, whether or not they had any children.

    18

    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.

    19

    All I know he hasn't skied in the fifteen years I've known him.

    20

    All you have to do is find out what property 'Mrs. Cummings' owned a hundred years ago.

    21

    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.

    22

    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.

    23

    And if you had met her all those years ago, do you think you would have?

    24

    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.

    25

    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.

    26

    And you Mr. Parrish, have been living with your head in the sand for a hundred-fifty years.

    27

    And you randomly assign him new moms every few dozen years and then send Gabriel to pick them off at the end.

    28

    Angels are mortals' allies, but they can't appreciate the intricacies of mortals without the years of exposure.

    29

    Anyway, I suppose I owe him something for the three years he bossed me around.

    30

    Are you going to be happy a few years from now, knowing what you gave up?

    31

    As Kris.s confidante of several hundred years, he knew most of the Immortal.s secrets.

    32

    At five years into her rule and mere days from war, was she already toppling down the path of madness?

    33

    At least he was, years ago, and he's moved back here.

    34

    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.

    35

    At twenty-six years old, she must've done something pretty bad in a past life to deserve this.

    36

    Aunt Helen died a few years later.

    37

    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.

    38

    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.

    39

    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.

    40

    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.

    41

    Brady had worked with Dan for fifteen years.

    42

    Brandon's feelings about the event were intense, even after all those years.

    43

    Brenda had been handling all Alex's investments for years, so Carmen left that part to her.

    44

    Bumpin' Bertha here doesn't make very good time but she's been getting the job done for a lot of years.

    45

    But it took a good many years for them to grow as large and fine as they are now.

    46

    But Ryland's personal knowledge of her was limited to a couple rolls in the hay a dozen years ago.

    47

    But she remembered everything from the past twenty-six years.

    48

    But that doesn't mean we didn't love each other or have a super twelve years together.

    49

    But you sent him into the middle of Hell for thousands of years.

    50

    Cancer. She died thirteen years ago.

    51

    Carmen was only two years younger than Josh, so it was no surprise that they had become inseparable playmates.

    52

    Certainly he has no ties to Josh Mulligan of forty years ago, or the Dawkins, or the Lucky Pup mine.

    53

    Claire's been on the European front for a hundred years.

    54

    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.

    55

    Couldn't the CBI guys over in their Denver lab tell the suicide note was written years before?

    56

    Cynthia served a pot roast, simple but delicious, reminding Dean of Sundays in years gone by.

    57

    Damian had taken his place when betrayal rendered Darian near-dead then enslaved to a madman for thousands of years.

    58

    Darian didn't remember it any more than he remembered much of the thousands of years he spend enslaved by Jonny's predecessor.

    59

    Darkyn has been spinning out of control for many years.

    60

    David Dean was 38 years old and the only unmarried detective.

    61

    Dean "attended" college, served in the military, and was employed by the Parkside, Pennsylvania Police Department for fifteen years.

    62

    Dean considered a further prompt, but a dozen years of dealing with attorneys taught him it would be both unsuccessful and unwise.

    63

    Dean had run Fred's prints, but as Fred pointed out, it had been many years ago.

    64

    Dean recalled his own father's death when he was 12 years old and how well his mother had brought him through the ordeal.

    65

    Dean reiterated the obvious—Burgess was less than positive and the picture he sort-of identified was years old.

    66

    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.

    67

    Deidre bought the lights she'd wanted for years.

    68

    Deidre looked around, struck by how different the place she lived for two years felt.

    69

    Deidre, you were Death for let's say, a zillion years.

    70

    Destiny would be two years old before long.

    71

    Detective David Dean had been seeing Attorney Ethel Rosewater three or four times a month for more than two years.

    72

    Did he want to live two hundred years?

    73

    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.

    74

    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.

    75

    Edith's managed to slip out and meet me a half dozen times over the years, but that's it.

    76

    Even after thousands of years he was reliving the pain of his brother's death.

    77

    Even his many years absence from visiting Ouray no longer eliminated him as a suspect now that the age of the bones was uncertain.

    78

    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.

    79

    Even Mr. Tim had abandoned her after years of mentoring her.

    80

    Every few years, he had to move anyway; they all did, for security reasons.

    81

    Except for a few years of working at Wal-Mart, she had been able to stay on the farm.

    82

    Except I can't remember anything beyond my twenty-six years.

    83

    Fifteen years later he was still there.

    84

    Fine. I am three hundred and twelve years old.

    85

    Fitzgerald listed a college degree, birth in Ouray, and nineteen years in law enforcement, the last eleven in administrative duty.

    86

    For the first time in years, he doubted himself.

    87

    For the first time in years, he felt whole again.

    88

    For the first time in years, he found himself wondering what it would be like to feel again.

    89

    Forty years old and having a baby!

    90

    Four years ago, she and Dean were a weekly item, as they say.

    91

    Fred married my mother years after dad passed away.

    92

    Fred O'Connor hasn't had this much fun in 20 years!

    93

    From their years together, he knew the cryptic response was the best he'd get.

    94

    Gabriel knew the secrets of all seven from interacting with them over the years.

    95

    Gabriel squinted, unaccustomed to so much light after all his years in the underworld.

    96

    Gabriel was reminded of the many times he'd expressed something human to the goddess he'd loved for thousands of years.

    97

    God love him—he had followed the Boston Red Sox for sixty years and couldn't even dream of ever being there himself.

    98

    God, that was nearly ten years ago!

    99

    Ha. He's the last one to sit in judgment after all the crazy things he's pulled through the years.

    100

    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.

    101

    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.

    102

    He bought the land in chunks over the years.

    103

    He could search years and never find a woman like you.

    104

    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.

    105

    He couldn't hold a candle to my real father—the one who was there for me all those years.

    106

    He cried for the first time since his mother had passed away 15 years earlier.

    107

    He did the math—married seven years, divorced ten years— depending on her age when she married, she might be a young-looking forty.

    108

    He didn't answer to her anymore, as he had for thousands of years.

    109

    He doubted his night – or his next few thousand years – was going to get any better than this.

    110

    He faced Sasha, recalling the years they'd spent together.

    111

    He grieved for years and Sarah worried for a time that he might find someone to stake him.

    112

    He had a son who was a hot shot baseball player and I played two years in the minors.

    113

    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.

    114

    He hadn't expected anything different when he met the reincarnated Deidre a few years ago and started down this path.

    115

    He hadn't visited the Guardians' Irish station in years, mainly because Ireland had no regular vamp population.

    116

    He hasn't seen us in years.

    117

    He highlighted some of the teenage antidrug and alcohol programs he'd worked with over the years.

    118

    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.

    119

    He knew who I was when we first talked at the basketball game, but it was years later he told me about it.

    120

    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.

    121

    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.

    122

    He left a note—a damn note after 12 stinking years!

    123

    He made her feel like she wasn't alone for the first time in years.

    124

    He owned it for years.

    125

    He recognized the procedure but hadn't heard of it being used since before his brother, Darian, had died thousands of years ago.

    126

    He touched her face, exhausted for the first time in years.

    127

    He was around Ouray for ten years or so.

    128

    He was hundreds of thousands of mortal years old, but less than half a dozen in angel years.

    129

    He was probably thinking years ahead and wanted Carmen to handle it in event of his death.

    130

    He was the most talented player the small Ouray school had produced in years.

    131

    He was there for seven years.

    132

    He was twenty years older than me, born into his position.

    133

    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.

    134

    He watched for quite a while, until the model reached a level that had taken him years of apprenticeship under his father to achieve.

    135

    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.

    136

    He would never feed on a woman under 21 years old.

    137

    He would.ve been content to stay in his cottage for another hundred years or never again visit the mortal world.

    138

    He'd been fevered for a zillion years, trapped in the tiny cell in ever-changing forms, always in darkness.

    139

    He'd been the one to deliver his friend to Hell many years ago.

    140

    He'd given it to her hundreds of years ago.

    141

    He'd given me 20 years of marriage.

    142

    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.

    143

    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.

    144

    He'd only been here once, years before, but he told me he owned land and one day he'd settle in the town.

    145

    He'd stuck by her for over three years, though.

    146

    He'd tucked away the necklace thousands of years ago after finding it among the pieces of his brother's body.

    147

    He's about 19 years old and built like a Greek god.

    148

    He's been after bad guys for thousands of years, and he's never gone to the Dark Side or quit or anything.

    149

    He's been doing it for many years.

    150

    He's been in Hell for hundreds of thousands of years.

    151

    He's been my friend for almost t…ten years.

    152

    He's had it for years.

    153

    He's helped me through a lot over the past few years.

    154

    He's loved you for like, a million years.

    155

    He's put up with my attitude for a lot of years.

    156

    He's seven years old and he's never experienced a normal family situation.

    157

    Her mate and father were near the same age, over double her eighteen years.

    158

    Her mother and father had tried for years and finally had been successful.

    159

    His cabin was tiny, two rooms, with the walls lined with weapons he'd collected over the years.

    160

    His clothing was pressed and his appearance spry despite his almost sixty years.

    161

    His dark eyes and caramel features seemed much older than his nineteen years.

    162

    His friend of many years stopped well out of earshot and touched the net implant.

    163

    His gaze settled on Jade's familiar features, and he studied his companion of so many years.

    164

    His lover of many years sensed his unease and waited for him to speak.

    165

    His own father hadn't mated with his mother for ten years, until after Darian's birth.

    166

    His world was one of confusion, his memories overwhelming as the dam that had been in place for thousands of years crumbled.

    167

    How could she forget after only two years?

    168

    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?

    169

    How long had it been since he had been jilted - five years?

    170

    How many days, months, years had she prayed for a miracle like the one in her hand?

    171

    How many pints of fruits and vegetables had been processed in this kitchen over the years?

    172

    I am the same friend you've had the past few years.

    173

    I can probably get close with a few years of research, but not in two months.

    174

    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.

    175

    I did for many, many years.

    176

    I did you the favor of running your prints years ago.

    177

    I don't give a damn about what might have happened years ago!

    178

    I drove the trip for fifteen years, when I started coming back to Ouray again.

    179

    I figured it out when I rediscovered her in the human world a few years ago.

    180

    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.

    181

    I guess what made the biggest impression was watching you and her over the course of thousands of years.

    182

    I had a brother Bobbie, ten years older than me.

    183

    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.

    184

    I haven't been up that way in years.

    185

    I haven't biked for years.

    186

    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.

    187

    I haven't put up with you for fifteen years not to know when you're worried.

    188

    I just strolled around town, trying to imagine Annie doing the same thing, a hundred years ago.

    189

    I know you haven't driven in 15 years!

    190

    I left many years ago and haven't gone back.

    191

    I looked up the ownership but the records were nearly fifty years old.

    192

    I mean, I don't know anything about March fourth but I know Jeff hasn't been sick for years and years.

    193

    I meant years ago.

    194

    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.

    195

    I might have pulled your leg a time or two, but we've got along pretty good over the years keeping stuff to ourselves.

    196

    I never pressed him about it in the fifteen years we roomed together.

    197

    I only have twenty-six years' worth of memories, thanks to Darkyn.

    198

    I passed that mark a few hundred thousand years ago.

    199

    I rented a room from his mother for years when I'd visit out here summers.

    200

    I see him every few dozen years, usually when he's coming to kill my mama.

    201

    I spent enough time out here a few years ago.

    202

    I spent thousands of years and broke the Code twice.

    203

    I spent two years on the bench and never played a down until the last game of my jun­ior year.

    204

    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.

    205

    I thought she had years to go.

    206

    I told him for years to take notes so our other scientists can pick up wherever he left off.

    207

    I waited tens of thousands of years for one of us to have the mating tattoo appear.

    208

    I was a cop for a lot of years.

    209

    I was born, wandered the Immortal world for the first few years.

    210

    I was so busy following the road map I made so many years ago that I didn't notice it was outdated.

    211

    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.

    212

    I wouldn't have spent years grooming you for this type of event if I didn't believe in you.

    213

    I'd known him for a few years, even if it was only in passing.

    214

    I'll update your address list virtually over the next few years.

    215

    I'm an Immortal, and Gabriel has moved on after thousands of years at your feet.

    216

    I'm going-- " "He's gone weak after all these years at battle and lost sight of winning back our planet!

    217

    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.

    218

    I'm really just humoring Fred— rewarding him for his first idea in years that isn't totally hare­brained.

    219

    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.

    220

    I've been expecting you for years.

    221

    I've been spying on the thoughts of humanity for thousands of years.

    222

    I've been visiting the San Juans every summer now for the last twenty years.

    223

    I've eliminated innumerable enemies of yours the past few years.

    224

    I've seen a lot during my years as a doctor.

    225

    I've seen you once in 13 years and you were in a lineup.

    226

    If anyone would know happenings forty years ago, those guys would.

    227

    If he hadn't saved that nobleman's child years ago, you'd have been sold on the auction block, her mother said.

    228

    If I knew three years ago, I might not have trusted Wynn.

    229

    If I live to be a thousand years old I'll never understand them.

    230

    If I live to be a thousand years old, I'll never understand it.

    231

    If it's hereditary, then the mutation has been hidden from us for, like, maybe even hundreds of thousands of years.

    232

    If the court thinks there's any possibility Jeff's alive, I'd have to wait years and years.

    233

    If there's a serious doubt, the heirs may have to wait a good long time, even seven years.

    234

    If they don't belong to Josh Mulligan, they could be years older than the 1960's.

    235

    If your bones belong to someone who impregnated a young girl years ago, why do you care now?

    236

    Images of Kris, his only love in two thousand years, swam through his thoughts.

    237

    Impressive. Haven't seen one in a few thousand years.

    238

    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.

    239

    In all his years in Hell, he.d never known this kind of pain.

    240

    In all his years, he'd never seen anything like her.

    241

    In all the years he.d served her, she.d never owned him until three weeks ago.

    242

    In all the years she had known him, he had never said that to her – or anyone else in her presence.

    243

    In four hundred thousand years, he hadn't learned to answer a phone right?

    244

    In the last few years she had been making all the decisions about her farm.

    245

    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.

    246

    Instead of a slow, fifty year death, it'll be three years.

    247

    It gets to be a habit after all these years.

    248

    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.

    249

    It had been two years since their mother had died - three since their father had run off with that harlot.

    250

    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.

    251

    It had been years since he'd heard a woman's compassion.

    252

    It is only really about twenty years old.

    253

    It looks like a hole in the ground that hasn't been touched in thirty years or more.

    254

    It must be nice to only have a birthday once every four years.

    255

    It seems like years since I saw you last.

    256

    It showed a good looking, much younger man, as Dean guessed it dated from when Byrne was first employed, 15 years earlier.

    257

    It took me a couple of years to realize God had answered my prayer the first time.

    258

    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.

    259

    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.

    260

    It was five years ago with a lithe red head named Ellen for a Vermont weekend.

    261

    It was not until years later after his mother too was gone that he real­ized the grief and confusion she must have felt.

    262

    It was one of the many oddities about her father that she'd accepted over the years.

    263

    It was over fifty years later.

    264

    It was something normal people did during this time of year, something she'd done every year for twenty-three years.

    265

    It was two years ago and one of my roommates yanked my long, golden blonde hair.

    266

    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.

    267

    It will take years for them to come back to life at this elevation.

    268

    It would be years before she could afford to remodel it.

    269

    It.s the way things have been for millions of years!

    270

    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.

    271

    It's been like that since—God, junior high school—six, seven years!

    272

    It's been ten years since I first told you this.

    273

    It's not a new picture—ten or fifteen years old.

    274

    It's taken thousands of years, but I'm glad you finally showed up.

    275

    Jackson had developed quite a discerning palate over the years.

    276

    Jackson had lost count of the times she found 'The One', only to have her heart broken months or years later.

    277

    Jake wiped his mouth the way he did when he'd admitted to cheating on her four years ago.

    278

    Jeff Byrne had worked for World Wide for 15 years and seemed at least content with the work he was doing.

    279

    Jeff used to ride, years ago.

    280

    Jenn took planning to another level, one he didn't know was possible after so many years without technology.

    281

    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.

    282

    Katie contemplated Carmen with eyes wiser than her twenty years.

    283

    Katie was born about seven years after me.

    284

    Kiera managed a hurt tone and rolled on her side to frown at her blurry best friend of fifteen years.

    285

    Kris's features clouded, and Gabriel suspected it was because Kris had been with his current lover, Jade, for hundreds of years.

    286

    Let's say the mine was closed up for years and only recently broken into.

    287

    Living for three years after a diagnosis of dying in a month weird?

    288

    Long-buried rage was bubbling upward, along with the tiny instinct he'd squashed thousands of years ago.

    289

    Lord knows what he did to Donnie over the years to cause the boy to despise him so.

    290

    Lori's been drooling over him for years.

    291

    Maybe I sound like a jerk, but it's been ten years since we were an item and I've got a life now.

    292

    Maybe in a few years, if we don't have any of our own, we can adopt a child.

    293

    Maybe it was the years he spent as a salesman.

    294

    Mid-morning sun warmed Gabriel's face, drawing him out of the deepest slumber he'd experienced in years.

    295

    Monica Cutler had performed every duty but setting type at the Parkside Sentinel for the past 20 years.

    296

    More sense than the idea she was a deity for thousands of years.

    297

    Most of their friends were local to Maid Marian Lane where they had lived for nine years.

    298

    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.

    299

    Mr. Westlake never married and taught high school history for thirty years.

    300

    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.

    301

    My love, we've been destined for each other since I wed your brother thousands of years ago.

    302

    My relatives have been dead for many years.

    303

    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.

    304

    No one found the remains for forty years!

    305

    No, the water fight goes back years and years.

    306

    None of these had been touched in years, from what we can tell.

    307

    Not if she was twenty-five years old and in love with him.

    308

    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.

    309

    Not really, a hundred years of practice and you would play just as well.

    310

    Not sure how, when you've been nagging me for thousands of years.

    311

    Now, after twelve years of being in the system, foster homes were scarce.

    312

    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.

    313

    Oh, to have had this instinct years ago, when she met Wynn!

    314

    On the other hand, Joan and Sean had been married almost thirty years and they got along well.

    315

    One of my most expensive shirts with the pants that went out of season five years ago.

    316

    Our European front has been growing progressively weaker the past hundred years.

    317

    Our families have fought side by side for over fifty years.

    318

    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.

    319

    Perhaps the body is much younger—only ten or twenty or thirty years old.

    320

    Physically, he was feeling a whole lot better than he had in years.

    321

    Probably for the same reason it had been for him so many years.

    322

    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.

    323

    Ralph's been dead for years and a son runs the business now.

    324

    Reminiscent of the Civil War fifty years ago, only the PMF is being blamed.

    325

    Rhyn faced the sarcophagus, surprised to see his father looked as he had when he last saw him thousands of years before.

    326

    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.

    327

    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.

    328

    Rhyn's mortal was convinced of this.  She said Gabriel had been the lover of Death for thousands of years.

    329

    Sackler and DeLeo, partners for nearly 12 years, had more in common than their constant arguing would suggest.

    330

    Sarah had only seen him cry twice through all the years.

    331

    Scranton, Pennsylvania is one of those eastern cities whose past glories were years earlier than the memory of any living citizen.

    332

    Seems it's been rented for years.

    333

    Sensitive to the light after years in the underworld, his head felt like it was going to explode.

    334

    Seven years had passed.

    335

    She also said you were lovers for a short time many years ago.

    336

    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.

    337

    She didn't want that to be true of Wynn, who had helped her for years.

    338

    She had been taking care of everything to do with their homes for the last few years, so that was familiar territory.

    339

    She had given up years ago trying to convince him to let the rest of the world see that side.

    340

    She hadn't cried in years, unless it was out of pain from a particularly bad beating.

    341

    She has a hundred and fifty years on him, and she just turned him.

    342

    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.

    343

    She knew when he lied; she'd spent twenty years with him.

    344

    She leaned into him again, this time whispering husky words that would've made him blush years ago.

    345

    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.

    346

    She recalled nothing beyond her human age of twenty-six years.

    347

    She took the hint but wondered who had hurt him so badly that he still bore a grudge thousands of years later.

    348

    She waited thousands of years and worked with both Dark Ones to make it happen.

    349

    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.

    350

    She was two years old - ready for the pot, anyway.

    351

    She was two years younger then.

    352

    She wouldn't be two years old until December.

    353

    She'd been on the verge of death for years.

    354

    She'd been trying for years to have his voluntary service revoked.

    355

    She'd last dressed up for Hannah's engagement party two years ago.

    356

    She'd let down her guard to Darian after thousands years of rebuffing everyone else and had woken up feeling recharged, confused.

    357

    She'd lived there for four years --almost as long as the kid had been alive.

    358

    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.

    359

    Shipton had used a gnarled cedar, years dead, as an anchor for his line.

    360

    Shorty, you stay out of this or I'll tan your hide the way I should have done years ago.

    361

    So, you mean in a million years we'll have gray hair and wrinkles?

    362

    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.

    363

    Sometimes it takes a long time and a lot of praying, but I'm living proof it can happen even after many years.

    364

    Speck shifted away from him, a response Dusty was accustomed to after thousands of years as Damian's lead executioner.

    365

    Still, goats and sheep had been in North America for hundreds of years.

    366

    Switching the bones and killing him in the first place are two different acts—forty years apart.

    367

    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.

    368

    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.

    369

    That she was a deity, Death, who lived for thousands of years … None of that made sense.

    370

    That was nearly seven years ago.

    371

    That was years ago!

    372

    That young man has been in the water fight for years.

    373

    That's been a dry hole for sixty years, Roger said.

    374

    That's over fifty years ago!

    375

    That's the number of Guardians you've killed directly with your actions over the past few thousand years.

    376

    That's what they've been doing for the past three years.

    377

    The bones are probably forty years old.

    378

    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.

    379

    The couple had recently moved back to Fairhaven, in rural New England, after years away.

    380

    The deep part of the pool was small, but years of practice had taught her where to land.

    381

    The demons remaining were all young and loyal, trained by him over the years.

    382

    The energy around them was lively; they were brothers whose bond was formed during their years in the bowels of hell.

    383

    The feds sealed off the Mississippi using the equipment left over from the war fifty years ago.

    384

    The guest bedroom has been ready for visitors since my daughter died ten years ago.

    385

    The human I created twenty six years ago.

    386

    The human lived here for a few years with a boyfriend that one of Darkyn's demons killed.

    387

    The Immortal who posed as her only friend and surgeon for years – who also nearly killed her – stood before her.

    388

    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.

    389

    The land went to his wife but then she died a few years later.

    390

    The last civil war set us back fifty years.

    391

    The Lucky Pup has apparently been sealed up for the last forty years until someone—kids, we think—broke into the mine this spring.

    392

    The man hiding in the corner of her mind, he whose death plagued Damian for thousands of years.

    393

    The manor house had been built several hundred years ago, and every room but hers was a reflection of her father's wealth.

    394

    The mine was sealed up for years.

    395

    The neighborhood had slowly changed over the years.

    396

    The old truck was still parked where Josh had left it when he towed it home for her nearly two years ago.

    397

    The ones he had run into over the years smelled awful, like a wet dog.

    398

    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.

    399

    The same woman who would die in twenty-three years from ovarian cancer.

    400

    The small woman was one Gabe had known for years.

    401

    The trunks had been there for two years with no one touching them.

    402

    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.

    403

    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.

    404

    The white Appaloosa would be three years old in July.

    405

    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.

    406

    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.

    407

    The years of habitation gave the place a thousand smells, none of them pleas­ant.

    408

    Their only boy came along unexpectedly nine years later.

    409

    Their war, it's been going on for thousands of years.

    410

    Then I looked up the Pinkville newspaper but it was merged into a countywide paper four years ago.

    411

    Then she asked, Why do you say the bones are forty years old?

    412

    There are a few creatures I've collected over the years that interest me.

    413

    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.

    414

    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.

    415

    There was no permanent damage to head or elbow but Dean was beginning to feel his years.

    416

    They became great friends over the years.

    417

    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.

    418

    They had been happily married for twenty years.

    419

    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.

    420

    They had stayed close by their homes, watching unseen, for a few years, until it became too painful.

    421

    They looked much younger, so it must have been taken years ago and some pictures of a boy and a girl.

    422

    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.

    423

    They smell like they spent years on the ground.

    424

    They were both now forty years old.

    425

    They were only here four or five years in the late fifties, Charlie said.

    426

    They'd been in the mine for forty years.

    427

    They'd been married two years now and this was the first time he had mentioned it.

    428

    They'd been patient, setting up their ultimate victory over the course of tens of thousands of years.

    429

    They'd had a falling out a few hundred years before and hadn't spoken since.

    430

    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.

    431

    They've been working for millions of years to get around this one; they're quite crafty at it.

    432

    This compass is only a few thousand years old.

    433

    This felt so different than all the years of just him and Sarah.

    434

    This is the first time we've had an honest discussion in about a million years.

    435

    This very moment she would choose Alex - but what about twenty years from now, when it was too late to have children?

    436

    This was the doctor who stuck by her for years after her diagnosis.

    437

    This would be the first year he'd gone into the negative in a thousand of years.

    438

    Thought you'd learned something after all those years in Hell.

    439

    Thousands of years hadn't given him much insight into a woman's way of thinking, but this he knew without a doubt.

    440

    Thousands of years later, Jenn could still see her daughter's brown eyes and curls.

    441

    Thousands of years of love-hate memories left him conflicted.

    442

    Thousands of years of repressed fury bubbled within him.

    443

    Tim and Jim were thirteen months old going on three years.

    444

    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.

    445

    Two women couldn't room together for fifteen years and, in some ways, remain virtual strangers.

    446

    Unmarked and no one could tie it to him in a hundred years!

    447

    Very honorable of you to give her a choice of being with you after how she treated you all those years.

    448

    Vinnie Baratto was the star running back for three years.

    449

    We couldn't have been happier, and it never changed for a moment for the whole twelve years before he died.

    450

    We don't talk about those years very much—my life before I met you.

    451

    We got his picture—even if it is a few years old—and my money says he hasn't changed much.

    452

    We will have to leave in ten years or so anyway.

    453

    We've been married 20 years and...

    454

    We've been through for hundreds of years.

    455

    We've never been able to transform a vamp into a human in thousands of years.

    456

    Well judging from your art collection and furnishings at Fairhaven I would guess you're about a hundred and fifty years old.

    457

    Well, he had been for many years.

    458

    What am I, five years old?

    459

    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?

    460

    What if he had met her years ago?

    461

    What if the silly, innocent, clueless little girl you spent years lying to actually had something that you need to leave here?

    462

    What she knew was that her father and his lies had skewed her outlook on her world for ten years.

    463

    Whatever happened occurred forty years ago.

    464

    Whatever it was, I apologize for hurting you so much that you bore a grudge for thousands of years.

    465

    When we married, I was twenty-eight and he was fifty-two—nearly twice my age—two years older than my father!

    466

    Who spent the last million years in Hell, thanks to Kris.

    467

    Who would have guessed three years ago that she would be running Elk and buffalo on her land?

    468

    Why go back into the mine after all these years and take the chance of swapping the bones and getting caught?

    469

    Willoughby's was old hardwood and brass under 70 years of bad breath and nicotine, catering to a tenth the crowd of bygone days.

    470

    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.

    471

    With a sinking heart, he realized he.d lost the Jade who.d been his friend and lover for a few hundred years.

    472

    With Claire's death, he'd avenged his brother and righted the wrong made thousands of years ago.

    473

    Worse, they'd never run across this type of issue in all their years.

    474

    Yeah. Do their heirs have to wait seven years or something like that?

    475

    Yeah. There's things that happened a hundred years ago and are best left be.

    476

    Years ago he had been jilted at the altar by a girl he thought he loved.

    477

    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.

    478

    Years later Dean would think back to this first time he saw Cynthia Byrne.

    479

    Yes, but I have had a hundred and fifty-eight years to sow my wild oats.

    480

    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.

    481

    You are looking well, Zamon, for being a million years old.

    482

    You can't fix a war that's been on for hundreds of thousands of years.

    483

    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....

    484

    You could have done something about the skeleton years before now.

    485

    You could probably fix a date within a few years at least.

    486

    You couldn't be a cop for fourteen years and not look death in the face and recognize its gruesome glare.

    487

    You extended my life over three years after the others said I had a few months.

    488

    You get a new one every eighty years or something?

    489

    You have flirted with Death for three years now.

    490

    You know, I never once heard him bitch in all the years he worked for me.

    491

    You remember what I've taught you all these years?

    492

    You took his heart and crushed it, like every day for thousands of years.

    493

    You were born two years apart.

    494

    You'd think after oh, a few thousand years, you'd remember, Jule.

    495

    You're pretty much all that held me together over the years.

    496

    You've accompanied me there on the few days I've gotten to relax over the past few years.

    497

    You've been coming to Ouray for twenty years.

    498

    You've had tens of thousands of years to get rid of me.

    499

    You've lived on your terms the past few years.

    500

    Your amnesia is trauma induced from the rape you survived six years ago.