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abbreviation

years.

yours.

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How to use yrs. in a sentence

I have spent more than $130,000.00 on legal fee's in 13.5 yrs.
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When he came to "age" he looked shrewdly at the dog and penciled in "3 yrs."
Trading Jeff and his Dog|James Arthur Kjelgaard
He noted in his journal that on February 16 he was in Fredericksburg and “dined at my Sons being my birthday and 63 yrs old.”
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Well old pal they thought for a wile that it was Feeney for yrs.
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It seems like France was mixed up in another war along about a 100 yrs.
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So Capt. Seeley went out and it seemed like a couple of yrs.
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British Dictionary definitions for yrs.

yrs

abbreviation for

years

yours

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