Years vs Era - What's the difference?
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* 1981 , May 5 1718-PDT, Jim McGrath, Earliest Usenet use via Google Groups: fa.sf-lovers , said with a smile at an awards ceremony in the Pennsylvania state Capitol
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (colloquial, hyperbole) An unusually long time.
A time period of indeterminate length, generally more than one year.
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(geology) A unit of time, smaller than .
As nouns the difference between years and era
is that years is while era is era, age.years
English
Noun
(head)- It will be a shorter book and it will not start four million years ago.
Katie L. Burke
In the News, passage=Oxygen levels on Earth skyrocketed 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria evolved photosynthesis: the ability to convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates and waste oxygen using solar energy.}}
Synonyms
* (unusually long time) ages, yonks, for ever,Statistics
*Anagrams
*era
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Even in an era when individuality in dress is a cult, his clothes were noticeable. He was wearing a hard hat of the low round kind favoured by hunting men, and with it a black duffle-coat lined with white.}}
citation, passage=In an era when political leaders promise deliverance from decline through America’s purported preeminence in scientific research, the news that science is in deep trouble in the United States has been as unwelcome as a diagnosis of leukemia following the loss of health insurance.}}
