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Triennially


Definition:

  • (adv.) 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.

Year


Definition:

  • (n.) The time of the apparent revolution of the sun trough the ecliptic; the period occupied by the earth in making its revolution around the sun, called the astronomical year; also, a period more or less nearly agreeing with this, adopted by various nations as a measure of time, and called the civil year; as, the common lunar year of 354 days, still in use among the Mohammedans; the year of 360 days, etc. In common usage, the year consists of 365 days, and every fourth year (called bissextile, or leap year) of 366 days, a day being added to February on that year, on account of the excess above 365 days (see Bissextile).
  • (n.) The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.
  • (n.) Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Forty-nine patients (with 83 eyes showing signs of the disease) were followed up for between six months and 12 years.
  • (2) The percentage of people with less than 10 TU titers is under 5% after the age of 5 years up to 15 years; from 15 to 60 years there are no subjects with undetectable ASO titer and after this age the percentage is still under 5%.
  • (3) Thirty-two patients (10 male, 22 female; age 37-82 years) undergoing maintenance haemodialysis or haemofiltration were studied by means of Holter device capable of simultaneously analysing rhythm and ST-changes in three leads.
  • (4) These data indicate a steady improvement in laboratory performance over the last 10 years.
  • (5) Yet the Tory promise of fiscal rectitude prevailed in England Alexander had been in charge of Labour’s election strategy, but he could not strategise a victory over a 20-year-old Scottish nationalist who has not yet taken her finals.
  • (6) Sierra Leone is one of the three West Africa nations hit hard by an Ebola epidemic this year.
  • (7) Thirteen patients with bipolar affective illness who had received lithium therapy for 1-5 years were tested retrospectively for evidence of cortical dysfunction.
  • (8) Future Brown have connections in the fashion industry, last year soundtracking a surreal film for the brand Telfar.
  • (9) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
  • (10) Oculomotor paresis with cyclic spasms is a rare syndrome, usually noticeable at birth or developing during the first year of life.
  • (11) In contrast to previous reports, these tumours were more malignant than osteosarcomas and showed a five-year survival rate of only 4-2 per cent.
  • (12) The time of observation varied between 2 and 17 years.
  • (13) The previous year, he claimed £1,415 for two new sofas, made two separate claims of £230 and £108 for new bed linen, charged £86 for a new kettle and kitchen utensils and made two separate claims, of £65 and £186, for replacement glasses and crockery.
  • (14) The role of whole Mycobacteria, mycobacterial cell walls and waxes D as immunostimulants was well established many years ago.
  • (15) A 61-year-old man experienced four bouts of pancreatitis in 1 year.
  • (16) It involves creativity, understanding of art form and the ability to improvise in the highly complex environment of a care setting.” David Cameron has boosted dementia awareness but more needs to be done Read more She warns: “To effect a cultural change in dementia care requires a change of thinking … this approach is complex and intricate, and can change cultural attitudes by regarding the arts as central to everyday life of the care home.” Another participant, Mary*, a former teacher who had been bedridden for a year, read plays with the reminiscence arts practitioner.
  • (17) Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21).
  • (18) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
  • (19) A diplomatic source said the killing appeared particularly unusual because of Farooq lack of recent political activity: "He was lying low in the past two years.
  • (20) Extensive studies during recent years have shown that the interaction between hormone and membrane-bound receptor can affect the receptor characteristics in at least two ways.

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