"year" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- This proposal went against three thousand years of custom and law.
- "I didn't believe it possible that in three hours one could make a man turn against fifty-two years of his life!"
- He started to fight for freedom in 1847 against British, 10 years before the Indian rebellion of 1857.
- Less than a year of grass-roots democracy is up against 56 years of dictatorship.
- Set against 40 years of cold war, that is success.
- "I have to fight against five and a half years of the mainstream media, particularly local press, telling their side of the story," he said.
- For the young, it is an uncompromising revolution against 21 years of Israeli occupation.
- Women took longer than men, averaging 7.3 years as against 6.6 years for men.
- "But I finally borrowed the money against four future years" harvests of rice!
- Look back, see how far up the hill you've come, and then balance one hundred and twenty days against ten years.
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