Expression: 'With 18 years being passed...'

[Tom]

Hi

Could you please tell me how you find the following expression?

1- With 18 years being passed, I can't seem to remember anything at all.

Tom

[Yankee]

Hi Tom

It sounds very odd to me -- especially the words being passed. Was there a reason that you chose being rather than having?

Some ideas:
Eighteen years later ...
-OR-
After the passage of eighteen years,...

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[Alan]

Hi Tom,

You want my honest opinion? I think it stinks. It's also the classic dangling participle or unrelated participle because we don't know who does the 'passing'.

How about:

Now that 18 years have passed, I ... ?

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[FangFang]

Hi,
Must we use a comma in this sentence? Is there any thread related to the comma's usages here? Thanks!!!

F.F

[Yankee]

[canadian45]

I take it that passed means died in British English. In N. A. the euphemism for died is passed away so "With 18 years having passed (,) I can't seem to remember anything at all." would be a good sentence.

[Pamela]

Without looking at the meaning of Tom's construction, "with 18 years being passed" or "with 18 years having passed" is The Prepositional Absolute Participial construction

[Alan]

Hi Canada,

'Pass away' is also used in Br. Eng to mean die. I just can't follow your line that it's a 'good' sentence if it means 'pass away' or maybe I'm missing some subtle twist of humour?

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[Tom]

A lot of thanks to everybody!

Now do you find the following constructions OK?

1- With 20 years having passed, I can't seem to remember anything at all.

2- Despite 20 years having passed, I seem to remember everything dinstinctly.

Tom

PS Any amendments and suggestions would be highly appreciated.

[Tamara]

1- After twenty years...

2 - Though ...

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[Torsten]

It's no surprise that after 20 years I can't seem to remember anything at all.
Even after such a long time I still seem to remember everything quite clearly.
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[canadian45]

Hi Alan
If I understand your question, "With 18 years having passed...." has nothing to do with dying; it has to do with time passing.