All those years of sucking it up melted away in my grief.

The years had melted away; she looked like a sad little girl, an actual touch of innocence in her expression.

The years melted away, and it was as if Conor saw his master coming towards him once again.

Ten years of world wide research, held on floppy disks, had melted.

It was as if all the years since they were novice and Accepted together had melted away.

The long years melted away and were relived together one more time.

But when this 28-year-old designer took it on, the years melted away.

A year in the wild will melt the flesh off a man.

In his mind's eye, years melted away as if cut by a lasbeam.

It was as if fifty years had melted away.