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year

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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).

The time in which any planet completes a revolution about the sun; as, the year of Jupiter or of Saturn.

Age, or old age; as, a man in years.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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a Martian year takes 687 of our days Source: Internet

she is 4 years old Source: Internet

in the year 1920 Source: Internet

a school year Source: Internet

“2019 has been another exceptionally warm year, in fact the second warmest globally in our dataset, with many of the individual months breaking records,” said Carlo Buontempo, head of C3S. Source: Internet

$1.2 billion was invested globally in Halal economy companies, reflecting a growth of 399% on comparable transactions across halal products, Islamic lifestyle & Islamic Finance compared to the prior year. Source: Internet

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