year

Related to year: leap year
See:
  • (one's) autumn years
  • a year and a day
  • advanced in years
  • all year round
  • along in years
  • be light years away
  • be light years away from
  • be on in years
  • big year
  • by the day
  • by the year
  • calendar year
  • Christmas comes but once a year
  • days running
  • dog's years
  • donkey’s years
  • donkey's years
  • first hundred years are the hardest
  • for (some) years running
  • for donkey's years
  • four score and seven years ago
  • frighten (one) out of a year's growth
  • frighten one out of wits
  • from the year dot
  • from, since, etc. the year dot
  • full of years
  • get along in years
  • get on in years
  • getting on (in years)
  • golden years
  • Happy (Holiday Name)!
  • in an age of years
  • in years
  • Keep a thing seven years and you'll find a use for it
  • keep a thing seven years, and you'll (always) find a use for it
  • merry Christmas and a happy new year
  • never in a million years
  • never in a thousand years
  • not in a million years
  • not in a thousand years
  • Not in a thousand years! and Never in a thousand years!
  • not/never in a hundred, etc. years
  • of mature years
  • on in years
  • one's sunset years
  • pushing on in years
  • put years on (one)
  • put years on somebody
  • put years on someone
  • ring in the new year
  • roll back the years
  • salad years
  • scare (one) out of a year's growth
  • see you next year
  • seven-year itch
  • since the year dot
  • so last year
  • spend (some amount of time) in (some place)
  • stricken in years
  • sunset years
  • take years off
  • take years off (of) (one)
  • take years off somebody
  • the first hundred years are the hardest
  • the seven year itch
  • the seven-year itch
  • the turn of the century
  • the turn of the century/year
  • the turn of the year
  • the vale of years
  • the year dot
  • twilight years
  • up in years
  • wear (one's) years well
  • well up in years
  • Where are the snows of yesteryear?
  • with (someone or something) for (some amount of time)
  • year after year
  • year by year
  • year dot
  • year in, (and) year out
  • year in, year out
  • year on year
  • year round
  • years running
  • you should know a man seven years before you stir his fire
References in classic literature
She and Leslie and Gilbert were on their way to the Four Winds Point, having plotted with Captain Jim to watch the New Year in at the light.
"I have heard that you can see the shadow of Venus only once in a lifetime, and that within a year of seeing it your life's most wonderful gift will come to you," said Leslie.
Annes House of Dreams
But before many years had passed all that was changed.
English Literature For Boys And Girls
Three years was the time required to go through the high school.
John Barleycorn
They varied from one to seven years. Have we any reason to infer, from the spirit and conduct of the representatives of the people, prior to the Revolution, that biennial elections would have been dangerous to the public liberties?
Federalist Papers Authored by James Madison
"Did your mother tell you that it cannot be for a year?" asked Prince Andrew, still looking into her eyes.
War and Peace
Repairing straight to a religious establishment, known throughout Europe for the rigour and severity of its discipline, and for the merciless penitence it exacted from those who sought its shelter as a refuge from the world, he took the vows which thenceforth shut him out from nature and his kind, and after a few remorseful years was buried in its gloomy cloisters.
Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty
These were his triumphs, and this his rate of progress on the way to the peerage, during the first year of his life as the husband of Lady Jane.
Man And Wife
In 1726 (seven years after 'Robinson Crusoe') appeared Swift's masterpiece, the only one of his works still widely known, namely, 'The Travels of Lemuel Gulliver.' The remarkable power of this unique work lies partly in its perfect combination of two apparently inconsistent things, first, a story of marvelous adventure which must always remain (in the first parts) one of the most popular of children's classics; and second, a bitter satire against mankind.
A History of English Literature
"Like a man of honor; he procured the signature; Tremblay and Louviere resigned their appointments, I have paid every year twenty-five thousand francs to these two gentlemen; on the thirty-first of May every year, M.
Ten Years Later
The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or Duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Constitution of The United States
"I congratulate you, sir," he said, "upon your very great invention, and I hope to see it supplant all forms of existing telegraphs, and that you will be successful in obtaining the wealth and honor which is your due." But one year later, Dolbear came to view with an opposition telephone.
History of the Telephone
From his eighth to his thirteenth year he attended the Manor House school, at Stoke-Newington, a suburb of London.
Appreciation
It was done in 1907: it appeared in various magazines as a serial in 1908 and it was published in the Fall of that year. At that time the aeroplane was, for most people, merely a rumour and the "Sausage" held the air.
The War in the Air
Twelve years had passed since I had laid the body of my great-uncle, Captain John Carter, of Virginia, away from the sight of men in that strange mausoleum in the old cemetery at Richmond.
The Gods of Mars