What's the difference between biannually and biennially?

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.

Biennially


Definition:

  • (adv.) Once in two years.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The improved economic status of the aged has been documented by a series of surveys beginning in 1941-42 and carried out from time to time until 1972 and biennially since 1976.
  • (2) In both sexes, at all ages, all-cause, cardiovascular, and coronary mortality rates increased progressively in relation to antecedent heart rates determined biennially.
  • (3) When Philip Roth accepted the biennial International Booker prize honouring some 60 years of his fiction, from Goodbye, Columbus to Nemesis , he sat at a wooden table in the studio adjoining his airy Connecticut retreat looking as much like a retired priest, or judge, as the Grand Old Man of American letters, pushing 79.
  • (4) Cigarette smoking cessation and resumption patterns are presented from biennial examination data from the Framingham Study for the years 1956-1978.
  • (5) My exploded shed was made in 1991, but it wasn't until it was shown at São Paulo Biennial in 1994 that it became well-known."
  • (6) Events such as the Glasgow International and Manchester International are now must-sees, and the Folkestone Biennial looks like following suit.
  • (7) More than one in four myocardial infarctions that occurred over 30 years in the Framingham Study were detected only because of routine biennial electrocardiographic examinations.
  • (8) Assessments are made during routine surveys by field technicians, monthly by the Radiation Safety Officer, and biennially by an independent radiological expert.
  • (9) The obese classification was based on maximum body mass index (BMI) over the 16 available biennial examinations of the Framingham Heart Study.
  • (10) The selection of this population and the success in following it through biennial clinical examinations and indirect surveillance for deaths and hospitalizations are described.
  • (11) Based on 472 stroke events occurring during 10 years' follow-up from biennial examinations 9 and 14, stroke probabilities were computed using the Cox proportional hazards model for each sex based on a point system.
  • (12) The subjects consisted of 143 males and 208 females aged 58-88 years at the 15th biennial examination in 1978.
  • (13) During the tenth biennial examination of the Framingham Study, 1315 participants who were free of cardiovascular disease had fibrinogen levels measured.
  • (14) The festival was co-founded by Erlend Mogård-Larsen and curator Helga-Marie Nordby , who got the idea after working on an art biennial in Lofoten, Norway in 2010.
  • (15) It is the first time the biennial competition has been held in the UK for over 40 years.
  • (16) The hypothesis that obesity-related hypertension is relatively innocuous was explored by an examination of cardiovascular events over 34 years of follow-up when related to biennially measured weights and blood pressures using time-dependent covariate proportional hazards analysis.
  • (17) Perhaps his most significant international contribution was co-founding in 1978, with John Peatling, the International Seminar on Religious Education and Values (Isrev), bringing together international scholars at biennial conferences, initially held alternately in Europe and North America.
  • (18) Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Denis McDonough, took a clipboard and with mayor Ed Lee scoured San Francisco streets last week for the biennial homeless count.
  • (19) In terms of the bienniale itself, I was not so interested in what was happening on Riva degli Schiavoni [where some of the yachts are moored].
  • (20) More young people are joining the dole queue, with the youth unemployment rate increasing from 8.8% in 2008 to 13.3% in 2014, according to the biennial welfare report card from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

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