'Years' in the Bible

For the man on whom this act of power was done was more than forty years old.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.

But when he was almost forty years old, it came into his heart to go and see his brothers, the children of Israel.

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.

This man took them out, having done wonders and signs in Egypt and in the Red Sea and in the waste land, for forty years.

But God was turned from them and let them give worship to the stars of heaven, as it says in the book of the prophets, Did you make offerings to me of sheep and oxen for forty years in the waste land, O house of Israel?

And there was a certain man there, named Aeneas, who for eight years had been in bed, without power of moving.

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.

And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.

Then at their request for a king, God gave them Saul, the son of Kish, a man of the family of Benjamin, who was their king for forty years.

And this went on for two years, so that all those who were living in Asia had knowledge of the word of the Lord, Greeks as well as Jews.

So keep watch, having in mind that for three years without resting I was teaching every one of you, day and night, with weeping.

Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:

Now after a number of years I came to give help and offerings to my nation:

But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.

All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;

And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,