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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.
- 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.
- Mr. Sorapong, 35 years old, selected industrial estate developers Hemaraj Land & Development PCL and Amata Corporation PCL among his top picks, with Hemaraj returning 147% over the course of 2010 and Amata providing a 99% return on investment. Real Estate
- Two years later she was omitted from the European squad that relinquished the trophy in Minnesota.
- I didn't know my success was going to be so big and that I would become 'the subtractor', always subtracting six years. Life and style | guardian.co.uk
- Last year there was only me and AA who were 1st years, plus AA is heaps older and I didn't know her at all.
- In recent years, Laganside Corporation has transformed the inner core of Belfast city centre, specifically along the Lagan river and in the surrounding area.