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Years

Years

(n)
UK
jɪəz
US
jərz
Definition: The time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.
Meaning: Năm
Very Common
How to use "Years" vocabulary in sentence (example)

In fact, the structure these rare pineapples are grown in was unearthed in 1991 and renovated just two years later to a working state.

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However with the manpower over the course of the 2 years it takes to grow a pineapple, the cost to make each pineapple is $1,300.

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London is about 2000 years old.

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The government of Germany was in Berlin for many years.

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Within five years of the first Walmart opening in Arkansas it expanded to 24 stores in the state and sales reaches $12.6 million.

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A little over ten years ago now, the Airbnb story began in San Francisco, 2008.

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In celebration of this momentous achievement and their more than ten years in business, here are 20 Fun Facts about Airbnb, that you probably didn't know.

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This enterprise soon took off, and over time it evolved into the Airbnb we have today, with a little cheeky nod to its birth all those years ago, still in its name.

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In only eleven years, they have conquered the four corners of the globe, reaching a staggering 192 countries worldwide.

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Jump forward eleven years later, and an eye-watering four hundred guests now make a booking every two minutes.

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In the eleven years that Airbnb has been trading, they have accepted more than five hundred million guests!

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It takes our solar system about 230 million years to complete one orbit around the galactic center.

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The "Long Wall" has a long history — more than 2,300 years.

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Sprite is the leading Lemon and Lime soft drink worldwide, a younger offshoot of the Coca-Cola branch, Sprite has existed for over 50 years to date.

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Over the years Sprite has had 17 variations worldwide, including: Sprite Zero, Sprite Remix, Sprite Blast, Sprite Ice, Sprite Duo, Sprite Super Lemon, Sprite Lemon Lime Herb, Sprite Recharge, Sprite Green, Sprite 3G, Sprite Cranberry, Sprite 6 Mix (aka Sprite LeBron's Mix) and Sprite Tropical.

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Popcorn was domesticated 9,000 years ago in Mexico.

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When Lincoln was seven years old, his family moved to Indiana.

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In his childhood he helped his father on the farm, but when he was 22 years old he left home and moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he worked in a general store.

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Today, it is the most popular sport in the world and many people watch it on television, especially the FIFA World Cup that happens every four years.

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And MESSENGER, launched in 2004, orbited Mercury over 4,000 times in four years before exhausting its fuel and crashing into the planet's surface on April 30, 2015.

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EBay has been around for years and has become an everyday tool to use to shop and auction your unwanted things online.

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EBay wasn't launched in the UK until 1999 which was 4 years after it was set up in the US.

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After 8 years of selling, on November 13th 2008, Sheng became the first person to reach this amount of reviews.

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Over the years there have been many items, sometimes even joke items that have reached millions but not quite as much as this one.

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This convenience is one of the reasons it became such a popular platform over the years.

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Just unveiled in 2018, the Garuda Wisnu statue stands at a towering 396 feet (120 meters) and took over 20 years to build!

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Mount Agung is an active volcano on Bali Island which has already erupted multiple times in the last 2 years.

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Despite having formed over billions of years, evidence from volcanic lava flows is so recent many scientists believe it could still be active.

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The idea of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is more than 1,000 years old.

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The record is held by a Burmese cat called Tarawood Antigone, who was just four years old at the time.

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Their closest living relatives are cetaceans (whales, porpoises, etc.) from which they diverged about 55 million years ago.

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A hippo can live for up to 40 years.

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Female hippos, though, become heaviest when they are about 25 years old.

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In the late 19th century, after hundreds of years of isolation, Seoul opened its gates to foreigners and began to modernize.

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Horses which have been tamed usually live to be around 25 years old.

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Experts believe they first appeared about 4,500 years ago.

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It takes a number of years for a baby eagle to grow its talons fully.

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Although eagles can live up to 70 years, this isn't always the case and they normally become weaker towards the end of their lives, unable to hunt as they used to.

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When baby eagles are born, they are covered in gray feathers and don't have the typical brown and white pattern until they are 4 years old.

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Fifty years later in 2007, it was removed from the endangered list but is still protected.

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In recent years he has retired from working full time at Microsoft, and has instead concentrated on working with his charitable foundation "The Bill and Melinda gates Foundation.".

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They had two sons before divorcing several years later.

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Saturn takes 29.6 years on Earth to revolve around the Sun.

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Every day, over 150 years of YouTube are watched on Facebook.

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There is a program to scan for copyright infringement called Automated Content ID - it scans over 100 years of video every day.

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Amsterdam declared war on the Spanish in 1578, during the Eighty Years' War.

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The calf stays with its mother for 0.5 years.

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Young giraffes become mature when they are 4 years old, and they are fully grown when they are 6 years old.

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Giraffes live around 25 years in the wild and 28 years in captivity.

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Since 1992, badminton has been a Summer Olympic sport with four events: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, and women's doubles, with mixed doubles added four years later.

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Findings in a sea cave at Pinnacle Point in South Africa indicate Homo sapiens (modern humans) harvested marine life as early as 165,000 years ago.

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When they are domesticated, some will live up to 50 years.

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However, in the wild where life is riskier, peacocks and peahens generally live up to 20 years.

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For more than 2,000 years, peacocks have been kept in captivity around the world either for entertainment purposes or religion.

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When peacocks are first born, they don't have tails, and in fact don't look very impressive until they are around 3 years old.

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Although the popularity of kimchi is still rising in the West, it is an ancient dish, dating about two thousand years back, when it was first mentioned in written documents.

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I love the place and I just can't get enough of it - the past three years me and my wife have gone together every year.

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However, 16 years later, she made a determined comeback after becoming fed up with seeing French fashion become dominated by men.

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Research has shown that there were prehistoric humans in the area tens of thousands of years ago.

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This limestone has been forming for over 500 million years.

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Nguyen Tai, a scholar and poet wrote about Halong Bay 500 years ago, calling it 'rock wonder in the sky'.

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Astronomers have known Venus for thousands of years.

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Their life span is shorter than that of the tortoise with an average of 20 to 40 years and a maximum of 86 years.

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Their life span is longer than that of the turtle with an average of 80 to 150 years and a maximum of 188 years.

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It has won the title of "The Best Business City in the World" for over four years.

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Hong Kong governance system guarantees free education for students up to 12 years.

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In his formative years, he developed a love of nature and from an early age began to display his remarkable academic and artistic talents.

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In 1482, Leonardo went to the court of Ludovico Sforza in Milan, where he stayed for 16 years.

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The majority of Instagram users are between 18 and 29 years old.

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Evidence of recreational swimming in prehistoric times has been found, with the earliest evidence dating to Stone Age paintings from around 10,000 years ago.

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Within a few years, Bloomberg launched ancillary products including Bloomberg Tradebook (a trading platform) and the Bloomberg Messaging Service.

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At that point, it was announced that Michael Bloomberg would be taking the reins of his eponymous market data company from Doctoroff, who was chief executive of Bloomberg for the past six years after his term as deputy mayor.

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It has been long claimed by various scholars that the German adventurer and businessman Augusto Berns reached Machu Picchu and plundered it 44 years previously, in 1867.

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After close to 70 years into the game, the brand is as relevant as ever with the addition of influential taste makers such as Kanye West and Pharrell Williams to their stable.

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Designer Jeremy Scott, who now has a full line of Adidas sneakers bearing his name, began his collaboration with the brand many years prior when Adidas produced a version of its Forum Hi sneaker with the designer's face on it.

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The history of basketball is very large one, filled with rich events, legends and changes among the years.

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Slam dunks were illegal for almost nine years.

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This company has been in business for nearly a hundred years, working with governments, non-governmental organizations, leading businesses as well as not-for-profit organizations.

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They have been living with humans for thousands of years.

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