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Between the years 1914 and 1918, Newfoundland lost an entire generation of young men to an unspeakable horror that was supposed to be the war to end all wars. You would use years' when talking about more than one year in a possessive sense: We agreed to review our agreement in five years' time.
Two years' experience. In lieu of "I have two years of experience." Chicago Manual of Style 7.24. but, New Year's Eve (a true possessive) One-year experience (one-way street) One year of experience. My experience of one year. My experience from two years ago
That's a somewhat newer development - historically, it was usually 14-15 years old, if memory serves correctly. Let's be clear they still die they just can live longer. Job, lifestyle etc can shorten that considerably. A dumb ass elf is not that different than a dumb ass human when it comes to life expectancy.
2 years Biennial 3 years Triennial 4 years Quadrennial 5 years Quinquennial 6 years Sexennial 7 years ...
It's formal in contexts where this has been established as a formal abbreviation, for example perhaps in social services organizations in a certain jurisdiction, or maybe police reports. Anywhere that has its own style guide with a glossary of terms which lists this abbreviation as meaning "years old".
The counting in twenties is a Celtic practice that influenced English for a time, and also French (quatre vingt dix = four twenties and ten = 90). Putting "years" in the middle is also part of the Celtic idiom. In modern Welsh, "30 years" is "deng mlynedd ar hugain", literally "ten years on twenty". The image shows Google Translate.
And your last sentence is back to front: ten years old is an adjectival phrase like brainy, while ten year olds is a noun phrase like a boy. – Colin Fine Commented Feb 23, 2014 at 13:13
or. over one year of experience. or similar to yours but meaningful-. 1+ years of experience. It is also good enough to write exact term in years and months since you mentioned resumés, like. An experience of one year and four months. If it's over 1 year but less than 13 months, it's better to say. one year. Share.
I have been working here for 20 years. I have worked here for 20 years. The present perfect tense is used for repetitive or constant actions that began in the past and continue to the present. The perfect progressive tense is used for continuous actions that began in the past and continue to the present. But I really don't see the difference ...
Like the words decennial, every 10 years, and bicentennial, it’s a consistent pairing with the “-centennial “ or “-cennial” root and Latin prefixes. However, a centennial is an event, celebrated at 100 years. Words with the “-cennial” root, like decennial, refer to a repeating cycle, e.g. every 10 years.