(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).
Triennial
Definition:
(a.) Continuing three years; as, triennial parliaments; a triennial reign.
(a.) Happening, coming about, or appearing once in every three years; as, triennial elections; a triennial catalogue; a triennial visitation.
(n.) Something which takes place or appears once in three years.
Example Sentences:
(1) The review also draws on data on maternal deaths, collated on a triennial basis and published by the National Health and Medical Research Council.
(2) However, in the coming months the company and pension trustees will receive a triennial valuation for the deficit, as at April 2010, carried out on a stricter, actuarial measure of assets and liabilities.
(3) The BHS fund, which has been widely reported to be in deficit to the tune of £100m, is scheduled for its triennial valuation at the end of this month.
(4) A description is given of a triennial investigation of hearing threshold carried out among 163 male adolescents whose mean age was 17 years at the first (1977) and 23 years at the last investigation (1983).
(5) Statistical models indicate triennial testing may deliver almost all of the effectiveness of annual testing at a substantially reduced cost, but the numerous reports of false-negative results argue strongly in favour of annual screening.
(6) However, on Tuesday – the last day of the triennial conference – some members stood up to say their ballot had not been recorded during voting late on Monday, when the resolution failed to pass by a single vote.
(7) As a result, lack of confidence is potentially holding the UK back from performing better in international league tables such as the OECD’s triennial Pisa tests.
(8) Triennial screening reduced mortality from cervical cancer among the elderly by 74% at a cost of $2254 per year of life saved.
(9) The prevalence of human papillomavirus (HPV) genotypes was investigated by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method in cytologically normal and abnormal cervical scrapes obtained from asymptomatic women (n = 1,346), participating in a triennial screening program for cervical cancer, and from a gynecological outpatient population (n = 593).
(10) Evaluation of MS temporal trends showed a significant increase in MS incidence during the study period: values ranged around two per 100,000 in the triennial periods 1965-1967, 1968-1970, and 1971-1973, and around five in each triennium from 1977 onward.
(11) On the day the MP for Clacton defects to Ukip ( Defection to Ukip puts pressure on Cameron , 29 August), the third Folkestone Triennial opens ( A nugget and spade resort?
(12) As triennial school psychological evaluations typically contain tests which have been administered previously, e.g., WISC-R, WRAT-R, we suggest that psychologists use caution when using Form M to test or retest the receptive vocabulary of emotionally handicapped or disturbed middle-school-age children.
(13) The triennial results from the Programme for International Assessment (Pisa), due on Tuesday but trailed in the Sunday press , have become education's equivalent of the football World Cup.
(14) Full triennial accreditation surveys were conducted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations in 1,628 of these institutions in 1986.
(15) The first group consisted of 143 consecutive samples from women with no cytological abnormalities who participated in a triennial screening program to prevent cervical cancer.
(16) For Biggs, the work, one of more than 20 commissions for the contemporary art triennial, now in its third year, has a far deeper resonance.
(17) The triennial valuation of the BHS pension scheme is being conducted with the results expected before 30 June.
(18) This could show a considerably worse funding hole compared with the last triennial valuation, conducted in April 2007.
(19) The pension fund had a deficit of £207m at the time of the last published accounts, although a triennial valuation scheduled to be completed by the end of June is expected to show it is now significantly more than this.
(20) The data are taken from the triennial New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey.