Vocabulary

年ぶり

after an interval of ... years; for the first time in ... years

expression

Example sentences

He came back to Japan for the first time in eight years.

He visited his hometown for the first time in ten years.

I bumped into an old friend for the first time in ten years on the Shinkansen the other day.

I returned home after an absence of two years.

I saw a movie for the first time in two years.

I returned to my hometown after five years' absence.

He returned home for the first time in ten years.

I met a friend whom I had not seen for three years.