Very long time
Years and very long time are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Years" instead a noun phrase "Very long time".
Years
Years noun - A prolonged period of time.
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Synonyms for Years
Very long time and years are semantically related. You can use "Very long time" instead a noun "Years".
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- TwoKinds: Keidrans only live 20 years so a couple years is a very long time by their standards.
Source: Time Dissonance -
Their close cousins the gnomes can live a few centuries too, but not as much (except forest gnomes, who have been known to live a very long time, some as old as 800 years).
Source: Really 700 Years Old - At the very end it's revealed that he did live a very long time for a dolphin - about three times longer than normal, as opposed to billions of years.
Source: Dying Dream
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