When I was 16 years old, I assembled a 2.3 million electron volt beta particle accelerator. I went to Westinghouse, I got 400 pounds of translator steel, 22 miles of copper wire, and I assembled a 6-kilowatt, 2.3 million electron accelerator in the garage.
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousands of miles and all the years you have lived.
Yahoo!, over the years, had been the king of the banner ad.
I've spent years on stage adjusting the timing of a line to infinitesimal degrees.
This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration's militancy and aggressiveness.
I talked about adopting a baby when I was 20 years old, before it became 'hip.'
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
For many years, I read mystery novels for relaxation. But my tastes were too narrow - and, having read all of Agatha Christie and John Dickson Carr, I discovered that the implausibility and the thinness of the people distracted me unduly from the plot.
Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.
The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.
I've been devoted to Alison Krauss for many, many years.
I knelt at the altar of Ray Charles for years. I worked at a restaurant, and that's all there was on the jukebox.
One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
Three years into the war, tens of thousands of American troops remain targets of a growing Iraqi insurgency.