Sentence examples for not just years from inspiring English sources

We said it first, for some reason, by not just years but a couple of centuries.

"You can never really count McDonald's out… We think it will be number one in terms of total sales for not just years, but decades to come".

Then he imagined his narrator standing before it, imagined that the gaslight cut across worlds and not just years, that the author and the narrator, while they couldn't face each other, could intuit each other's presence by facing the same light, a kind of correspondence.

"When you're talking about people all wanting the same land, all having a list of grievances that goes back not just years or decades, but centuries, it's going to take a massive amount of forgiveness, of acceptance of one another, that's just terribly hard to come by," he said.

The overwhelmingly context-free crush of online information has made a critic's role only more crucial; I know for a fact that they can help a listener find out why, say, two songs ascribed to Scritti Politti sound not just years but worlds apart, because I had discovered that when I read Simon Reynolds's notes on their career.

There are a number of problems with this idea: it would take time Europe doesn't have to organise; it would involve the weaker countries being dictated to by the strong in an even more direct way than they are at present; it would involve not just years but decades of austerity, and it would mean ignoring the seemingly obvious conclusion that monetary union is – and always was – rotten economics.

Christmas is a moment to pause, to look back, not just year on year but across a lifetime.

(CO2 hangs around for a long time, so you have to look at emissions over time, not just year to year).

The wines seem to be constantly evolving, and not just year to year but almost minute to minute.

I mean the production tax credit for renewable energy, if it's not renewed and needs to be renewed over something like a 10-year basis, not just year to year you're not going to see investment in it.

And all of that shows up on stage not just year-in-year-out but also night-in-and-night-out.