Sentence examples for years are common from inspiring English sources

Periodic droughts, often lasting several years, are common in the steppe and desert.

Some palms have very long lives; life spans of 50 to 100 years are common.

Droughts that last for five or six or even 10 years are common; cyclonic rains regularly bring floods to the northern part of the continent; every summer sees the inhabitants of the southern and coastal forests on bushfire alert.

In the Gregorian calendar, introduced in 1582 and now in general use, the centurial years are common years unless their numbers are exactly divisible by 400; thus, 1600 was a leap year, but 1700 was not.

I've followed Blaske through multiple health scares and hospital stays, as he has realized that the depression and suicidal thoughts he's endured alone for years are common among farmers.

One example is Newcastle University, where the first year of the accelerated course lasts for 45 weeks, and the final 3 years are common to all students.

A wage penalty of up to 20%, lasting for around 20 years, is common.

Without a specific deadline to submit a show, material gets honed tighter and tighter over the years, and a special every two to three years is common for most successful comedians.

Iain Duncan Smith said that spreading the changes over four years was "common sense".

Placing the infant on its back for sleep, which has been promoted for twenty-five years, was common knowledge.

The age group 35 64 years was common to all seven surveys (Table  1).