(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.
Eisteddfod
Definition:
(n.) Am assembly or session of the Welsh bards; an annual congress of bards, minstrels and literati of Wales, -- being a patriotic revival of the old custom.
Example Sentences:
(1) The world of Eurovision is also strangely comforting: at some level it takes me back to the world of childhood eisteddfods, where I regularly performed public atrocities on a number of alleged artforms believing myself a shoo-in for a guest appearance on Young Talent Time and, in time, a Logie.
(2) His was an adolescence lived around bus and train trips to Stratford to watch RSC productions or travelling deeper into Wales to participate in the Urdd Eisteddfod festival .
(3) The academics, the crowd at the Eisteddfod, the Plaid faithful may be talking up the changes that are to come.