Timeline for "In my younger years, early days, early years, and earlier years"?
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| Aug 30, 2014 at 21:28 | answer | added | Tim | timeline score: 2 | |
| Aug 23, 2014 at 17:11 | comment | added | G Tony Jacobs | I think the phrase, "for my whole life until recently," conveys what you're after. A slight variation would be, "for most of my life until recently," which I suppose is technically more accurate. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 4:16 | comment | added | Barmar | I'm with @Mynamite that it's relative. If you're very old, early years or younger days could easily include everything up to middle age. But if you're just a young adult, they would mean childhood. | |
| Aug 21, 2014 at 0:14 | comment | added | Wayfaring Stranger | Before the scales fell from my eyes: idioms.thefreedictionary.com/The+scales+fall+from+eyes | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 23:22 | comment | added | Mynamite | I think you might have to rephrase this to something like "Until recently/until a few years ago" or "I always used to [think/believe] but recently I ....". It might depend on how old you are now. If you are 87 you would say "All my life I have [believed ]....". But if you are 21 you could say "As I grew up I always [thought]...." | |
| Aug 20, 2014 at 23:19 | review | First posts | |||
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| Aug 20, 2014 at 23:12 | history | asked | j.free | CC BY-SA 3.0 |