Deposed in a military coup in September 2006 and having effectively been in exile, the Former premier of Thailand Thaksin has returned after about a year and a half.

There was a class reunion after 30 years.

I met him last week for the first time in ages.

The palace was heavily guarded.

It's been a long while since we had such fine weather.

Regardless of the subject, he pretends to know all about it.

I know from his speech that he is not an American.

It's three years since I had a real vacation.

I was looking forward to the day when I could see him after five years' separation.

She talked as if she were my mother.

She talks as if she knew everything.

She came home for the first time in five years.

I saw him after ten years.

He speaks as if he knew the criminal.

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

He went to his office after an absence of five weeks.

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

His way of speaking offended me.

His incompetence began to irritate everyone.

I can't excuse his laziness.