(a.) Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
(a.) Performed or accomplished in a year; reckoned by the year; as, the annual motion of the earth.
(a.) Lasting or continuing only one year or one growing season; requiring to be renewed every year; as, an annual plant; annual tickets.
(n.) A thing happening or returning yearly; esp. a literary work published once a year.
(n.) Anything, especially a plant, that lasts but one year or season; an annual plant.
(n.) A Mass for a deceased person or for some special object, said daily for a year or on the anniversary day.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) The form of the harvested crop, varietal characteristics and annual growing conditions have less bearing.
(3) The aim of the present study was to bring forward data of acceptance of dental treatment for 3-16-yr-old children in a population with good dental health and annual dental care, and to evaluate the influence on acceptance of age, sex, residential area, and previous experience and present need of dental treatment.
(4) In addition, recent increase of the annual incidence of the above both groups was clarified.
(5) The biggest single source of air pollution is coal-fired power stations and China, with its large population and heavy reliance on coal power, provides $2.3tn of the annual subsidies.
(6) Gove, who touched on no fewer than 11 policy areas, made his remarks in the annual Keith Joseph memorial lecture organised by the Centre for Policy Studies, the Thatcherite thinktank that was the intellectual powerhouse behind her government.
(7) Murder-suicide occurs with an annual incidence of 0.2 to 0.3 per 100,000 person-years and accounts for approximately 1000 to 1500 deaths yearly in the United States.
(8) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(9) The results of the examination of the tuberculosis cases detected during 7 years among the annually screened population are given.
(10) The annual cost of treatment is $200,000 (£130,000), and patients may live for tens of years.
(11) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(12) In April 1986, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thorax and shoulder girdle was presented to the 99th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Anatomists.
(13) However, shortly before this date, she says she was informed she would not receive the annual uprating.
(14) This comprised of 19.0 percent of the average annual bacillary pulmonary cases.
(15) Use of blood and blood products increased annually as did the number of patients crossmatched and transfused.
(16) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(17) Compared to the benefits, the annual risk of developing a side effect of the medication is much higher.
(18) The thinktank Open Europe estimates that the UK would pay 94% of its current costs (£31.4bn annually) if it left the EU but adopted a Norway-type arrangement.
(19) Blight responded with a hypothetical, telling Ludlam if the ASD asked a foreign agency to get material about Australian citizens it could not access under Australian law, the IGIS would know about it and flag it in its annual report.
(20) The long-term annual incidence of ipsilateral cerebral infarction was 0.67 percent in patients operated upon and 2.70 percent in patients unoperated upon.
Biannually
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There's even a little used term for it – rasputitsa – a biannual phenomenon that appears in spring because of melting snow and in the autumn because of rain.
(2) Weight, length, and head circumference were measured biannually for the first 3 years of life and thereafter annually.
(3) Anthropometry, blood pressure, and maturation staging are measured annually, and blood lipids biannually.
(4) The Commons foreign affairs committee says the government should have made Sri Lanka's bid to host the biannual summit of the Commonwealth – to be held in Colombo next month – conditional on improvements in human rights.
(5) Annual or biannual examinations should commence at age 40.
(6) In its biannual assessment of financial risks, the Bank said it was “focused on the potential for adjustments in the commercial real estate market to be amplified and affect economic activity by reducing the ability of companies that use commercial real estate as collateral to access finance.
(7) Collectively, the data support the hypothesis that photoinduced LH release and the biannual transitions between photosensitivity and photorefractoriness are controlled by an extraocular mechanism(s).
(8) Fifty-six patients with mania and psychotic features and 14 with schizoaffective disorder, manic type, were followed up with biannual assessments during a 5-year period.
(9) It was observed an epidemic bout pattern of biannual frequency, occurring in autumn and winter months, highest incidence observed in October.
(10) The relative risks of HMO patients receiving preventive care within established guidelines were 1.19 (CI, 0.93 to 1.51) for colon cancer screening, 1.78 (CI, 1.11 to 2.84) for annual breast examinations, 1.75 (CI, 1.08 to 2.84) for biannual mammography, and 1.35 (CI, 1.13 to 1.60) for Papanicolaou smears every 3 years.
(11) Biannual cross sectional surveys with mailed questionnaires from 1981 onwards and analysis of national statistics.
(12) Her concerns are supported by the royal college's new medical workforce census, a major biannual study among the UK's 11,000 paediatricians to investigate the pressures on them.
(13) Speaking at the biannual Global Alliance Conference Against Child Sexual Abuse Online in Washington, Holder warned that encryption and other privacy technologies are being used by sexual predators to create “more opportunities to entice trusting minors to share explicit images of themselves.” “Recent technological advances have the potential to greatly embolden online criminals, providing new methods for abusers to avoid detection,” he said.
(14) A retrospective review of 3,490 adminissions to the major pediatric facility in El Salvador was undertaken to determine whether biannual administration of massive doses of vitamin A (200,000 international units) to all availabel 1- to 4-year-old children was effective in preventing keratomalacia.
(15) According to his evaluation of the MOU , we do not know: • what the final version of this MOU says; • whether it changed after minimization rules strengthened later in 2009; • what those "additional procedures" to minimize American citizen information are; • how much, if any, American information actually gets passed along; • what the periodic, annual reviews have said; • what the two biannual program reviews have said; • if the program is even ongoing; or • what the actual implementation of this program looks like.
(16) WR cells maintained without biannual exposure to chlorambucil (WRr) reverted to the sensitive phenotype and possessed GST levels equivalent to WS.
(17) She had been routinely checked on her kidney function biannually and everything had been normal till then.
(18) Copies of the evaluations are given to each resident, and a copy is used at the resident's biannual evaluation meeting with the program director.
(19) The expected reduction in positive node cases from a similar annual program is about 30%, and from a biannual program, even without mammography, about 20%.
(20) Specifically recommended is routine chlamydial screening in the population of reproductive age at the time of the annual or biannual gynecologic examination.