Betydningen av year på engelsk

year

noun

/jɪər/ us

/jɪr/

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A1 [ C ]

a period of twelve months, especially from 1 January to 31 December:

Annette worked in Italy for two years.

2005 was one of the worst years of my life.

last year We went to Egypt on holiday last year.

time of year At this time of year the beaches are almost deserted.

all year (round) This species keeps its leaves all year (round) (= through the year).

year after year They just keep on turning up, year after year (= continuously).

[ C ]

a period of twelve months relating to a particular activity:

financial year The financial year begins in April.

tax year The figures for the tax year 2019–2020 are given below.

A2 [ C ]

the part of the year, in a school or university, during which courses are taught:

academic year

school year

in someone's final/first/second year UK She's now in her final/first/second year at Manchester University.

freshman/sophomore/junior/senior year US My daughter is in her freshman/sophomore/junior/senior year.

[ C, + sing/pl verb ] UK

(US class)

a group of students who start school, college, university, or a course together:

Kathy was in the year above me at college.

years [ plural ]

a long time:

for years Rachel and I have been going there for years.

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someone's years [ plural ]

someone's age or the time that someone lives or has lived:

Her voice still sounds very pure and shows no hint of her years.

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We look forward to greater success in the coming year.
I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
I'm contemplating going abroad for a year.
We have put some money on one side for next year's summer holiday.
He served four years in prison for robbery.

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Specific periods of time

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Years & yearly

Schools in general

Students & pupils

Idiomer

from/since the year dot
in/through all the years
of the year
put years on someone
take years off someone
year in, year out

-year

suffix

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/ -jɪr/

used to refer to a student in a particular year group at a school, college, or university:

I like teaching the first-years, but the second-years can be difficult.

a first-year student

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Students & pupils

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(Definisjon av year fra Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

year | Amerikansk ordbok

year

noun [ C ]

/jɪər/

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any period of twelve months, or a particular period of twelve months beginning with January 1:

last/next year

She brought along her eight-year-old daughter.

My parents have been married for 30 years.

Richard earned his degree in the year 1995.

You can get cheaper fares now, so it’s a good time of year to travel abroad.

In a school, a year refers to the part of the year during which courses are taught:

September is the start of the new academic year.

Idiomer

in years

year in and year out

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year | Forretningsengelsk

year

noun [ C ]

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(also calendar year)

a period of 365 or 366 days, starting on January 1st and ending on December 31st:

The project took five years to complete.

last/next/this year

the following/previous year

a period of twelve months relating to a particular activity:

He earns $68,000 a year.

years

a long time:

It's taken years to get funding for the project.

He's been doing the same job for years.

of the year

a thing or person of the year is one that has been chosen as the best in a particular area or activity for that year:

She won the Business Woman of the Year award in 2010.

year after year

every year for a long period:

The fund produces terrific results year after year.

year by year

if something increases, develops, etc. year by year, it happens each year over a period of time:

Savers should monitor their funds year by year.

Credit card fraud is still increasing on a year-by-year basis.

year in, year out

if something happens year in, year out, it has been happening for a while and is expected to continue in the same way:

Investors should choose a fund that does consistently well year in, year out.

Se også

amount falling due after one year
amount falling due within one year
beginning of year
end-of-year
financial year
fiscal year
tax year
year-ago
year end
year-on-year

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year-over-year

year to date

(Definisjon av year fra Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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year

All age groups were affected and the median age was 39 years (range 1-89 years) ; 52 % were men.

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The mean age of the 45 patients was 29.0 years (range 1-77 years).

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All age groups (nine children, five adults) were affected (mean 24 years, range 1.5-75 years).

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Over the next sixteen years, only 83 men appear, from no more than 56 families.

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The level of effective coverage at 2 years is shown on the x-axis.

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Median age was 38 years (range 0- 96 years).

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The response among young male adults aged 20 -24 years was particularly poor (y20 %).

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The median age was 31 years (interquartile range 27-34 years).

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During these years no mass immunization against influenza was conducted in these communities.

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Clitics understandably come in for fuller treatment (394-410) given the extensive attention they have attracted in recent years.

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During a period of over 20 years, the field, which this journal has set out to address, has experienced enormous progress.

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From 12,000 employees in 1991 it mushroomed to 19,000 five years later.

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In the early years of this decade the approach known as ' generative semantics ' had become predominant.

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Still, it is interesting to note that the link between local elections in 2004 and presidential elections two years later is tenuous at best.

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First, the number of beneficiaries has more than doubled in three years to over 30 million.

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