(a.) Happening, or taking place, once in two years; as, a biennial election.
(a.) Continuing for two years, and then perishing, as plants which form roots and leaves the first year, and produce fruit the second.
(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in two years; esp. a biennial examination.
(n.) A plant which exists or lasts for 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).
Centennial
Definition:
(a.) Relating to, or associated with, the commemoration of an event that happened a hundred years before; as, a centennial ode.
(a.) Happening once in a hundred years; as, centennial jubilee; a centennial celebration.
(a.) Lasting or aged a hundred years.
(n.) The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Example Sentences:
(1) Colorado Rapids Todd Haggerty, Centennial 38 Supporters : Best game: The 'Pids 4-3 victory in Montreal, which included a Tony Cascio sighting.
(2) During this centennial of his birth, we acknowledge the important contributions of Dr. Mann.
(3) So all they tend to do during their centennial visits is to ask the farmer whether he or she possesses a soil protection booklet.
(4) The current centennial celebration of The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) at Galveston spotlights not only a history of medicine, but a history of Texas as well.
(5) The purpose of this paper is to record objectively the contribution of Annals of Surgery to the development of the science of surgery and its application to patient care in commemoration of its Centennial.
(6) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(7) Musk made the comments to students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) during an interview at the AeroAstro Centennial Symposium , talking about computer science, AI, space exploration and the colonisation of Mars.
(8) An established population of the eastern North American freshwater snail Lymnaea (Pseudosuccinea) columella Say is reported from Middle Creek and Centennial Park, Sydney.
(9) In the United States, as in the United Kingdom, we've just celebrated the centennial of Father's Day.
(10) This is a conference dictated on the occasion of the centennial of the First Chilean Medical Congress, the foundation of the first Public Health Council and the School of Medicine of the University of Chile (1889).
(11) As with all development, it is critical that there is a balanced consideration of all impacts of developments on local communities, broader regions and the state.” The regulation repeal could change the dynamics in the assessments of other controversial NSW resource projects, such as Rio Tinto’s Mount Thorley Warkworth mine, Anglo American’s Drayton South mine and Centennial’s Springvale mine.
(12) 2.32am GMT Colorado royalty speaks... Todd Haggerty, from the Rapids' Centennial 38 supporters group, also wishes to make a few things clear: Big first thought is the lineup.
(13) When approximately 93,000 fans gathered outdoors in Sydney's Centennial Park, a natural reserve, for Australasia's largest ever outdoor rock concert, there was an obvious potential for medical disaster.
(14) During discussions of our plans for a year-long centennial observance with members of our House and Senate appropriations subcommittees, congressional members urged us to set two specific objectives: making NIH better known to the American people, and presenting the attractions of the many roles in health-related research to young people who have not yet formulated career plans.
(15) At the close of the Centennial Exhibition the collection was purchased by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
(16) glycinea transconjugants carrying avrPto elicit a typical hypersensitive resistant response in the soybean cultivar Centennial, suggesting conservation of Pto function between two crop plants, tomato and soybean.
(17) We are fast approaching a centennial of New York State's institutional system, the anniversary of the State Care Act of 1980.
(18) I have never met Bob Cameron or David Moult of Centennial Coal, for example, but I wonder what drives them?
(19) Arapahoe High School is part of the Littleton school district, in the Denver suburb of Centennial.
(20) In two years, Europeans will commemorate the centennial of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on 28 June 1914, and the subsequent "July crisis" that triggered the first world war that August.