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year noun Years (used after a numeral or other quantifying word). [reflects plural partitive genitive case from Old English; DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]
1864 Councill CW Letters (Nov 30) I dont think that I will Stay in this Cruel war more than forty year longer. 1922 TN CW Ques 231 (Knox Co TN) in this cuntry land was cheap 50 year ago. 1939 Hall Coll (Bradley Fork NC) Just after the [Civil] war a few year I was married. Ibid. (Proctor NC) I guess it’s been ten or fifteen. 1969 GSMNP-46:25 I am nearly ten year older than my brother right over there. 1989 Matewan OHP-102 We stayed up there for thirty year in it at least in this one house. 1998 Dante OHP-12 I worked thirty year in mines.