Between the years 1914 and 1918, Newfoundland lost an entire generation of young men to an unspeakable horror that was supposed to be the war to end all wars. You would use years' when talking about more than one year in a possessive sense: We agreed to review our agreement in five years' time.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. The much older Latin Vulgate has the "70 years" as: "septuaginta anni", where the first word is clearly "70" without the use of "score".
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In (ii) we have I was 10 years her senior = I was her boss for 10 years - I was, for 10 years, her boss. These constructions date back to Old English when the dative case would imply the prepositions to, for and (arguably*) by.
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