He used a couple of words I hadn't heard in years.

The voice on the other end was one she had not heard in 25 years, since high school.

I would have heard about it in the past two years.

It was the first time I had heard his voice in so many years.

It was a voice she hadn't heard in many years.

We will no doubt hear far more from him in the years to come.

Wilson hadn't heard the boy sound that way in years.

And this was the first that I had heard of her in three hundred years.

He had not heard her voice in five years, but no communication between them was necessary.

I have not heard a word from him in more than thirty years.