十几年

golden years───退休时期（通常指65岁之后）；金色年华（歌名，GoldenYears）

donkey's years───n.很久；很多年（等于donkey'sears）

base years───[计划]基准年；基础年度；基础年龄

for years───好几年

honey bears───蜜熊

off years───非大选年；小年

overyears───adj.越冬的，保存过年的

After a dozen years, the crustacean will grow to the size of a tractor tire.───十几年后，这种甲壳纲动物将长到拖拉机轮胎大小。

This is just a dozen years away.───这离我们仅仅有12 年时间。

The empire lasted a mere dozen years.───帝国只延续了十二年。

It's just a dozen years since the first medicine to treat MS was licensed, and now there is a large number of these in development.───仅仅十二年前，首例治疗MS的药物才获得批准，而如今有很多该类药物正在研发。

I did not know it at the time, but she was the last human person I was to encounter for more than a dozen years.───当时我还不知道，在未来十几年间，她是我遇见的最后一个人类。

Although no one seems to have perceived it, the era of ever increasing immigration restriction had come to an end a dozen years before.───虽然似乎无人察觉到，但是，对移民限制日趋严格的时代已经在十几年前结束了。

Zhang Qian was captured by the Huns just as he left Han territory, and was held prisoner for a dozen years.───没想到刚出边境，张骞就被匈奴抓住了。在被扣留期间，他学会了匈奴语，掌握了匈奴的地形。

My girlfriend and I had been living together for a dozen years, and those findings seemed so clear to me that I went home and proposed.───我和女朋友已经一起生活了十几年，而这些研究结果似乎很明确，所以我回家之后提了一个建议。

Randall Dale Adams is released from a Texas prison, following a dozen years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.───兰德尔·戴尔·亚当斯并未犯罪，却深陷牢狱十多年，于1989年从德州监狱中被释放。

He last took a vacation a dozen years ago.

She serves nearly a dozen years behind the bars.

But 400 Test wickets in the next dozen years?

Ever since his divorce, nearly a dozen years ago, no student had been invited to his home.

The project has gone through nearly a dozen years of planning.

A dozen years later, she was teaching more than fifty girls and attracting pupils from as far away as California.

Less than a dozen years after their car wash days, Pam and Larry Winters are financially independent.

But that had been more than a dozen years ago, when Robbie's family had been in better financial circumstances.

A dozen years ago, Mary Lou Retton somersaulted her way into our consciousness, and a nation rejoiced.