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EACH YEAR
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Without missing a year
Example:
they travel to China annually
Synonyms:
annually; each year; every year; yearly
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Sense 2
Meaning:
By the year; every year (usually with reference to a sum of money paid or received)
Example:
we issue six volumes per annum
Synonyms:
annually; each year; p.a.; per annum; per year
Classified under:
Context examples:
Globally, mosquitoes cause millions of deaths each year.
(Novel insecticide blocks mosquitoes’ ability to urinate, NIH)
Nearly 1.5 million people in US sustain an MI each year, and this event proves fatal in approximately one third of patients.
(Acute Myocardial Infarction Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)
Staphylococcus infections cause tens of thousands of deaths worldwide each year.
(Study finds probiotic Bacillus eliminates Staphylococcus bacteria, National Institutes of Health)
According to the World Health Organization, about 3.2 million deaths each year are down to people not doing enough physical activity.
(Reduce Risk of Early Death with Any Amount of Running, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
And each year something happened, and I did not go.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
A joint report from the United Nations and the European Union found that millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa suffer from acute food shortage each year.
(Poor Diet Kills More People Than Smoking, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Today the Kalahari's wettest areas receive 20 inches of rain each year; its driest, four to eight inches.
(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)
Each year, Mercury tends to retrograde in December, which causes delays in holiday transportation and difficulties with holiday shopping.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Lake Victoria gets most of its water from rain — about 55 inches each year.
(Environmental change in Africa: Will it lead to a drying Lake Victoria?, National Science Foundation)
The fastest-changing glacier of the three (Smith Glacier) is melting nearly six times as fast as a previous estimate for this region, losing up to 230 feet in ice thickness each year.
(Studies Offer New Glimpse of Melting Under Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)
