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Usage examples of yearlong.

Earth years, because the folk living beneath the crust and equally opaque atmosphere of Venus had never measured time by Venus years or the yearlong days of the second planet.

In the yearlong chaos of civil war that followed the murders of the Prince-Regent and the Child Queen, he had survived by making himself equally indispensable to all sides, never seeking power himself but gathering resources and men into the agency he led.

Daily life on the Ark, however had the Noahs borne it, that yearlong drift in searching circles afloat above their ruined world as the lambs and goats and she-bears and tigers and workhorses and owls and swans and geese among them contended for the best cabin and a preeminent chair upon the deck, all the while scanning the lowering skies, bent against the gales, complaining of the rain, glossed by lightning snaps, watching the far horizon for the first hint of land, for the greening crest of the highest hilltop to appear which they recognized at once and reclaimed as their own.

Was she part of this yearlong planning to which the notes and Cemetery John referred?

Zoyd had been staying with planters he knew up by Holytail, beyond the coastal ranges and the yearlong fogs, in a valley where growing conditions were ideal about the last refuge for pot growers in North California.

After a handful of yearlong seconds, he had made his way to his feet, had turned the suit, had found Martel.

There was a famous case in Philadelphia in the Eighties: a yuppie drug dealer skipped bail with his wife and child and swept his trail so clean that a yearlong, coast-to-coast manhunt came up empty.

We had shared quarters during the yearlong hyperspace jump from home, taking from one another the sort of consolation that only such sleeping arrangements can make possible.

In a symbolic effort to wipe away his past, Sammy underwent a painful, nearly yearlong medical process to remove the intricate tattoos he had acquired in his hoodlum youth.

During the yearlong separation, the meetings, the filing, and the final six months of waiting, not once had she indulged in an outburst of anger or display of pettiness, though she had felt very petty a time or two.

This was the culmination of a yearlong diet composed mainly of low-fat cottage cheese and single-malt Scotch whiskey, plus nine hundred packs of cigarettes and a daily vitamin pill.

What followed was a yearlong debate and then a vote by the Burani on whether their world should join the Federation.