Ledford thought this was the funniest thing he'd seen and heard in years.

It begins with a name I haven't heard in years.

It was the straightest offer he'd heard in years.

That's the best slogan I've heard in years.

A tenor voice of unearthly beauty was singing a lullaby, one I knew intimately but hadn't heard in years.

A moment later the woman excused herself to 'powder her nose', an expression Bond had not heard in years.

It was a song she had not heard in years, one which held a beautiful, tender association for her:

Mining Minister Gwede Mantashe may have just dropped the biggest bombshell regarding Eskom's future that we have heard in years.

It sounds heavy-going but it is in fact one of the most gripping and heart-wrenching stories I've heard in years.

We sang and listened for hours to the Yiddish and Hebrew songs, including some that I had not heard in years.

At this command from Arthur, something thrilled in her, the resonant echoes of another voice she had not heard in years.

Then I got up and went into the bungalow and made some long-distance calls to voices I had not heard in years.

Binder looked at me as if I was speaking in a language he'd never been very good at, and hadn't heard in years.

The Cake Sale is not just the best "charity" record we've heard in years, it's one of the best records of the year.

And then her thoughts went over the sea after that other Bessie, her own flesh and blood, of whom she had not heard in years.

"It was the first children's voices I had heard in years," he says.