Japanese Sentences with English Translations - Sentences [���]

The teacher said that World War II broke out in 1939.

The teacher told us that Columbus discovered America in 1492.

The leaders of seven industrial democracies will meet in Okinawa in 2000.

The tropical rainforests, located in a narrow region near the equator, are disappearing so fast that by the year 2000 eighty percent of them may be gone.

Oil may not last for another hundred years.

Be patient and persistent. These things take time.

Patience wins out in the end.

It is ten years since I came to live in Shizuoka.

It's been ten years since I came to live in Shizuoka.

It was almost a decade ago, on May 8th, 1980, that Mount St. Helens erupted.

Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them.

I was born on February 14, 1960.

The cost of living has greatly risen in the past ten years.

The population of the world is increasing so rapidly that it will be doubled within forty years.

The world population is expanding at the rate of nearly 90 million people a year.

I lived in Tokyo a few years ago, but now I live in Kyoto.

A few years ago it would have been inconceivable for Japan to send troops overseas.

Several years ago, in the course of being interviewed for a job, I was introduced to a competitor for the position.

Years later, Europeans established colonies in the coastal areas.

Years of heavy drinking has left John with a beer gut.