yrs.
abbreviation
years.
yrs.
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years.
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yours.
yrs
British
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years
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yours
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Pat Hanlon, senior VP of communications for the New York Giants, tweeted, "Been in league 35 yrs. Have never heard that language in writing or verbally. I’m not naïve. Sure it has been there."
From Fox News ● Oct. 13, 2021
Pat Hanlon, senior VP of communications for the New York Giants, tweeted, “Been in league 35 yrs. Have never heard that language in writing or verbally. I’m not naïve. Sure it has been there.”
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 13, 2021
After all he was a Marine for 47 yrs. defended our freedoms.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2018
“The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago. And Iranians have heard them —albeit more civilized ones—for 40 yrs. We’ve been around for millennia,” he said.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 23, 2018
Elizabeth Cady, ten yrs. work on Hist. of Wom.
From The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV by Harper, Ida Husted
"He has been involved w/Davos for large no of yrs so he is probably one if not the only person for you to talk to," Maxwell wrote in February 2004.
From BBC ● Feb. 26, 2026
Mr. Cruz said GOP lawmakers “need to hear a specific plan for the next 2 yrs from any candidate for leadership.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 13, 2022
“Her Cover of *Sweet Love, a few yrs ago?... Energized, My Catalog. And, always makes My Heart Smile.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
I was 12 yrs old and was preparing for Armageddon alone.
From Salon ● Nov. 28, 2021
Lydbrook Furnace, 23ft long, 9 bottom, 23ft deep, new built 3 yrs since from the ground, 3ft higher than before, much cracked.
From Iron Making in the Olden Times as instanced in the Ancient Mines, Forges, and Furnaces of The Forest of Dean by Nicholls, H. G. (Henry George)
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