Year
Meaning
The time taken by the earth to make one revolution around the sun.
Pronunciation
UK jɪə(r)
US jɜː(r)
Example Sentences
- In the year AD 61, the city was attacked and destroyed.
- Tornadoes are especially dangerous to people in cars or mobile homes and about 60 people are killed by tornadoes every year.
- He increased the sales by 45% in the first year by offering lower prices on products that he purchased from lower cost suppliers.
- Approximately 44% of the population in the United States shop at Walmart each year.
- Airbnb's first year was very successful for the three founders, it changed their lives that year and kept a roof over their heads, and they only had four hundred guests!
- A staggering seventy-five Airbnb hosts make at least a million dollars a year by renting out their properties.
- These properties don't come cheap and are often sold out year-round, so move fast if you have the option to land yourself one of these dream-come-true properties, even if [it's] just for the night.
- The Great Wall Marathon is held in October every year on [Mutianyu] Great Wall.
- The next year, it started work in a factory in New Jersey, lifting and stacking pieces of metal that were too hot for people to touch.
- Each year, on average, severe storms are responsible for more damage (as measured by insurance costs) than tropical cyclones, earthquakes, floods, or bushfires.
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