Periods of Years

Interlinked Thematic Vocabulary Unit Nº 326 v.01

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1. 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.
2. "Wars are as old as civilization; their numbers vary from year to year."
3. "In conclusion, we hope that this year will be a year of change, or at least a start to the change that we desire."
4. "ndividuals can register up to five weapons for a four-year period each."
5. leap year |n| a year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an intercalary day.
6. "An equal month is presumed to have 30.41666 days (i.e. 365/12) regardless of whether or not it is a leap year."
7. "This ensures that the system can also determine the posting period correctly in a leap year."
8. "Other changes were made to the Julian calendar to shorten or lengthen months, to add months and to fix leap year errors before Christ."
9. biennium |n| a period of two years.
10. "Provisions for the meetings had already been included in the programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007 under those sections."
11. "The biennium budget of $17.6 million was approved for 2008-2009, $7.72 million of which was allocated for 2008."
12. "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."
13. decade |n| a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero:
14. the decade of the 1980s.
15. "During the last decade or so, many lives have been spared because scientists were able to predict the activity of dangerous volcanoes."
16. "Security Council reform has been discussed for more than a decade."
17. "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."
18. century 1 |n|  a period of 100 years.
19. "How to share the benefits of the fabulous scientific and technological advances that mark the end of this century?"
20. "What started half a century ago as a straightforward decolonization issue has become a political maze."
21. "What started half a century ago as a straightforward decolonization issue has become a political maze."
22. 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.
23. "How did she become such a powerful woman in the fourteenth century?"
24. "This final year of the century turned out to be a true frontier crossing for most of our planet."
25. "Switzerland organizes two or three times per century a universal exibit."
26. millennium |n| a period of 1,000 years, or the time when a period of 1,000 years ends.
27. "The corpse had lain preserved in the soil for almost two millennia."
28. "How did you celebrate the millennium? The book is a history of the last two millennia."
29. "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."