Word Finder - year

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A solar year, the time it takes the Earth to complete one revolution of the Sun (between 365.24 and 365.26 days depending on the point of reference).

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we moved to this town a year ago;  I quit smoking exactly one year ago

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(by extension) The time it takes for any astronomical object (such as a planet, dwarf planet, small Solar System body, or comet) in direct orbit around a star (such as the Sun) to make one revolution around the star.

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Mars goes around the sun once in a Martian year, or 1.88 Earth years.

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A period between set dates that mark a year, from January 1 to December 31 by the Gregorian calendar, from Tishiri 1 to Elul 29 by the Jewish calendar, and from Muharram 1 to Dhu al-Hijjah 29 or 30 by the Islamic calendar.

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A normal year has 365 full days, but there are 366 days in a leap year.

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A scheduled part of a calendar year spent in a specific activity.

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During this school year I have to get up at 6:30 to catch the bus.

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A Julian year, exactly 365.25 days, represented by "a".

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A level or grade in school or college.

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Every second-year student must select an area of specialization.

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The proportion of a creature's lifespan equivalent to one year of an average human lifespan (see also dog year).

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Geneticists have created baker's yeast that can live to 800 in yeast years.

Each year a payment is made to each resident of Alaska.

She's Julie's nine year old daughter.

It's been a year since I found out you were married and we split!

Every year I come out here and try to convince him to get with the times, but it's to no avail.

In another case, a missing twelve year old boy turned out to be a runaway.

I gave him the year.

In a year you will learn to know yourself....

He had been taking care of her for nearly a year now.

It's been hard for him this past year.

Roughly speaking, if you look at the poorest forty nations in the world, who have an average income per person of about $1,500 a year, their effective tax rates are about 20 percent.

The eight year old son of a popular rapper named Buzz-Cousin was abducted for a million dollar ransom.

Our dad died last year, and I moved-- " "Age."

The same year, a technique for treating diabetes, insulin therapy, was developed.

The laborer's day ends with the going down of the sun, and he is then free to devote himself to his chosen pursuit, independent of his labor; but his employer, who speculates from month to month, has no respite from one end of the year to the other.

I mean, he's a twenty eight year old man, for heavens' sake.

It was that time of year.

Howie drove down and picked up his beloved, along with Molly O'Malley, her nine year old daughter.

Then I read about this other murder, maybe after I was in a year or so.

Now, he could deliver what he'd always promised-- a life together-- yet she didn't feel like leaping for joy like she would've a year ago.

My dad died last year.

She'd known Jake since her junior year of college.

Charlie nodded and added, "It's too remote to build anything there and snowed in most of the year."

All the surgeries the third year" he shook his head "desperate attempts by me to undo what I'd done."

All male citizens above twenty-one years of age have the right of suffrage, subject to a residence of one year in the state and sixty days in the county in which they offer to vote.

A new election must be called to fill the vacancy unless the unexpired term is less than one year.

A senator must be twenty-five years of age, and must have been a citizen of the state for five years and a resident of the district for one year preceding his election.

A law enacted in 1908 requires that children between eight and fifteen years of age shall attend school twenty-four weeks each year, provided the public school in their district is in session that length of time.

For the year ending on the 30th of September 1908 the receipts were $3,382,131.66 and the disbursements $3,482,317.03.

The same year German settlers from Pennsylvania founded New Mecklenburg, the present Shepherdstown, on the Potomac, and others soon followed.

Vansittart sought to check this, and in 1762 he made a treaty with Mir Kasim, but the majority of his council were against him and in the following year this was repudiated.

He remained president till 1908, in which year he was chosen to succeed the 8th duke of Devonshire as chancellor of Cambridge University.

Next year Cromwell penetrated into Munster.

On the 12th of September 1651 Cromwell made his triumphal entry into London at the conclusion of his victorious campaigns; and parliament granted him Hampton Court as a residence with £4000 a year.

Although the idol of his victorious army, and in a position enabling him to exercise autocratic power, he laboured unostentatiously for more than a year and a half as a member of the parliament, whose authority he supported to the best of his ability.

In 1651 the Dutch completed a treaty with Denmark to injure English trade in the Baltic; to which England replied the same year by the Navigation Act, which suppressed the Dutch trade with the English colonies and the Dutch fish trade with England, and struck at the Dutch carrying trade.

The religious element, however, which predominated in Cromwell's foreign policy inclined him to peace, and in April of that year terms were arranged by which England on the whole was decidedly the gainer.

Cromwell wisely inclined towards France, for Spain was then a greater menace than France alike to the Protestant cause and to the growth of British trade in the western hemisphere; but as no concessions could be gained from either France or Spain, the year 1654 closed without a treaty being made with either.

Conde's fame Crom= was established in his twenty-second year, Gustavus was twenty-seven and Turenne thirty-three at the military beginning of their careers as commanders-in-chief, Cromwell, on the other hand, was forty-three when he fought in his first battle.

Upon Andrew Jackson's election to the presidency, the Telegraph became the principal mouthpiece of the administration, and received printing patronage estimated in value at $50,000 a year, while Green became one of the coterie of unofficial advisers of Jackson known as the "Kitchen Cabinet."

There is no reason to doubt that some such visit was made about the year 315, when the death of Maximin Daza left Constantine supreme.

Gregory is related to have added a clause to the creed which Aristaces brought back; he became a hermit on Mount Sebuh about the year 332, and died there.

The tropical belt of high pressure persists all the year tion of ture.

The most remarkable inundations were those of 1537 and 1740; in the former year the water rose to 8 ft.

In his tenth year, his father, a tax-gatherer, sent him to an uncle at Pontarlier, under whom he commenced his classical studies.

Next year he was returned to parlement by the arrondissement of Pontarlier; but the work of legislation was ill-suited to him.

In 1853 he was appointed assistant, and in the following year won a doctor's degree with his treatise Nova elementa Thetidis.

He died in the same year on the scaffold.

In the middle ages Plautus was little regarded, and twelve of his plays (Bacchides - Truculentus) disappeared from view until they were discovered (in the MS. called D) by Nicholas of Troves in the year 1429.

The next year, as Hermione in Racine's Andromaque, she had a great success at the Hotel de Bourgogne.

Bela died on the 3rd of May 1270 in his sixty-fourth year.