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UK
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[ US /ˈjɪɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈjɪɹ/ ]
NOUN
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a period of time containing 365 (or 366) days
in the year 1920
she is 4 years old -
a period of time occupying a regular part of a calendar year that is used for some particular activity
a school year -
a body of students who graduate together
she was in my year at Hoehandle High
the class of '97 -
the period of time that it takes for a planet (as, e.g., Earth or Mars) to make a complete revolution around the sun
a Martian year takes 687 of our days
How To Use year In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- Within five years, a unified currency in 1933 the "central" issue of "legal tender" currency has been relatively stable, so Donglai Bank has to resume business.
- The defendant was released on bail until his trial next year. Times, Sunday Times
- She has certainly branched out into more interesting work in recent years.
- The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
- The following years were characterized by rifts with Russia, in which the Ukraine jealously guarded its own independence against its overbearing neighbour.
- So spake he, and Athene was mightily angered at heart, and chid Odysseus in wrathful words: Odysseus, thou hast no more steadfast might nor any prowess, as when for nine whole years continually thou didst battle with the Trojans for high born Helen, of the white arms, and many men thou slewest in terrible warfare, and by thy device the wide-wayed city of Priam was taken. Book XXII
- I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
- The question, which has been eating at Matthews for several years, is gnawing on him a couple of hours later as he decompresses at a party at Spago in Beverly Hills.
- She is "not a medium", we are told, but rather "a supersensory explorer who has been trained in the cosmic language of symbols for more than 20 years. British Blogs
