Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit NÂș 326 v.01
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- year |n| the period of 365 days (or 366 days in leap years) starting from the first of January, used for reckoning time in ordinary circumstances.
- "Wars are as old as civilization; their numbers vary from year to year."
- "In conclusion, we hope that this year will be a year of change, or at least a start to the change that we desire."
- "ndividuals can register up to five weapons for a four-year period each."
- leap year |n| a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day.
- "An equal month is presumed to have 30.41666 days (i.e. 365/12) regardless of whether or not it is a leap year."
- "This ensures that the system can also determine the posting period correctly in a leap year."
- "Other changes were made to the Julian calendar to shorten or lengthen months, to add months and to fix leap year errors before Christ."
- biennium |n| a period of two years.
- "Provisions for the meetings had already been included in the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007 under those sections."
- "The biennium budget of $17.6 million was approved for 2008-2009, $7.72 million of which was allocated for 2008."
- "This might be due to the fact that some of the recommendations for the two bienniums stemmed from different areas; some might therefore take longer and require more effort to implement than those for the previous biennium."
- decade |n| a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero:
- the decade of the 1980s.
- "During the last decade or so, many lives have been spared because scientists were able to predict the activity of dangerous volcanoes."
- "Security Council reform has been discussed for more than a decade."
- "In fact, during the decade that ended and opened the way to the new century, a series of events of special relevance took place in Africa."
- century 1 |n| a period of 100 years.
- "How to share the benefits of the fabulous scientific and technological advances that mark the end of this century?"
- "What started half a century ago as a straightforward decolonization issue has become a political maze."
- "What started half a century ago as a straightforward decolonization issue has become a political maze."
- century 2 |n| one of the successive periods of 100 years reckoned forward or backward from a recognized chronological epoch, especially from the assumed date of the birth of Jesus.
- "How did she become such a powerful woman in the fourteenth century?"
- "This final year of the century turned out to be a true frontier crossing for most of our planet."
- "Switzerland organizes two or three times per century a universal exibit."
- millennium |n| a period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of 1,000 years ends.
- "The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia."
- "How did you celebrate the millennium? The book is a history of the last two millennia."
- "Imagine what the world will be like at the end of the next millennium. The area has experienced the worst drought in half a millennium."
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