The years slipped by and that day didn't seem to be any closer than it had been when she arrived.

After that year slipped by, I asked questions again in 1983.

Fifty thousand years slipped away as if they had never existed.

He was likely to get up at any hour of the night to stand his watch, and truly enough the years had slipped away.

Three thousand years slipped away, and we were right back at the same place we'd been when I was only sixteen.

The years slip by, and it's not until they've reached their 30's that one morning they accidentally meet each other on the street.

We're going to do our best not to let this year slip away.

Strange to think they were almost out of their teens already; how the years slip by.

She was not getting younger; the years were slipping by.

Quite a few years slipped by one way or another.