In short, they are acquiring the status that they had a million years ago, 10,000 years ago, 100,000 years ago.

I have lived here for years.

I have been living here for years.

I haven't drawn for years.

I've lived here for years.

We have known that for years.

And it s actually something that we invented a few years ago, or created a few years ago.

I haven't seen him for years.

We haven't met for ages.

I have known her for two years.

It has been ten years since I left Japan.

It has been ten years since he died.

It has been two years since I studied medicine.

I've been making toys for the last 30 years.

We were married five years ago today.

It is five years since we moved here.

It is five years since they came to Japan.

She has been dead five years.

How long ago was that tragedy?

I haven't played the ukulele in years.

It's been two years since she left me.

And it's an essay I read 30 years ago.

We are all much healthier than we were 20 years ago.

It happened 225 years ago.

I was born 20 years ago.

He died some years since.

That was years ago.

He died three years ago.

It happened two years ago.

He died ten years ago.

She died a few years ago.

It happened three years ago.

In China, the history began thirty years ago we can't know what happened any farther back than thirty years.

50 years ago, he gave a series of a bunch of different lectures.

It is six years since I started to study English.

It is three years since my sister got married.

I've been living in San Salvador for six years.

I started learning English six years ago.

Tom hasn't played the piano in years.

I have wanted to go to Brazil for many years.

Didn't you know that she passed away about two years ago?

This is something you leaked a few years ago.

The maps they gave us are out of date by years.

Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.

It was taken 18 years ago.