Year after year

Definition

year /jÇǝ(r); Brit also jɜ:(r)/ n ၁။ [C] (တစ္)ႏွစ္။ ၂။ (also calendar year ) [C] (ျပကၡဒိန္) ႏွစ္။ in the year 1865 ❍ I shall be 18 this year. ❍ a good year for strawberries (ie a year in which there are many of them and they are cheap). See also LEAP YEAR, NEW YEAR ၃။ [C] တစ္ႏွစ္တာ ကာလ။ It's just a year (today) since I arrived here. ❍ I arrived three years ago (today). ❍ They're getting married in a year's time. ❍ a five-year forecast. See also LIGHT-YEAR ၄။ [C] လုပ္ငန္း (သို႔) ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာႏွစ္။ …ႏွစ္။ (ဥပမာ- စာသင္ႏွစ္၊ ဘ႑ာေရးႏွစ္၊ ပထမႏွစ္သင္တန္း)။ the academic/school year ❍ first year students ❍ the tax year. See also FINANCIAL YEAR ၅။ [C usu pl ] အသက္။ be twenty years old/of age ❍ a seventy-year-old man ❍ She looks young for (a woman of) her years (ie looks younger than she is ). ❍ He died in his sixtieth year (ie at the age of 59). ၆။ years [ pl ]( infml ) ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ။ ႏွစ္ႏွင့္ခ်ီ၍။ I've worked for this firm for years (and years). ❍ It's years since we last met. ❏ all (the) year round [ IDM ] တစ္ႏွစ္ပတ္လံုး။ He swims in the sea all year round. ❏ man, woman, car,etc of the year [ IDM ] တစ္ႏွစ္ အတြက္ အထူးျခားဆံုး။ TV personality of the year. ❏ not/never in a hundred, etc years [ IDM ] လံုးဝ။ လားလားမွ်။ I'd never have thought of that in a million years. ❏ put years on sb [ IDM ] အိုစာသည္။ The illness put years on him. ❏ take years off sb [ IDM ] အရြယ္တင္သည္။ Giving up smoking has taken years off her. ❏ year after year [ IDM ] တစ္ႏွစ္ၿပီးတစ္ႏွစ္။ Year after year they went to Blackpool in August. ❏ year by year [ IDM ]တစ္ႏွစ္ထက္တစ္ႏွစ္။ Year by year their affection for each other grew stronger. ❏ the year dot ( Brit ); ( US ) the year one [ IDM ] ( infml ) ပေဝသဏီကတည္းက။ I've been going there every summer since the year dot. ❏ year in, year out [ IDM ] ႏွစ္စဥ္ႏွစ္တိုင္း။ ❏ year-long adj တစ္ႏွစ္တာမွ်။ ႏွစ္လံုးေပါက္။ a year-long lecture tour. ❏ yearly adj, adv ႏွစ္စဥ္။ ႏွစ္တိုင္း။ တစ္ႏွစ္တစ္ႀကိမ္။ a yearly conference/ a conference held yearly. ❏ year of grace; year of our Lord( fml ) [ IDM ] ခရစ္ ႏွစ္။ in the year of our Lord 1217 (ie 1217 AD). ❏ year-on-year adj တစ္ႏွစ္ထက္တစ္ႏွစ္။ a small year-on-year increase in house prices. ❏ year-round adj တစ္ႏွစ္ပတ္လံုး။ an island with year-round sunshine ❍ a year-round sport.

Examples

1. He lived in Paris for a few years.
2. I started my job two years ago.
3. [years old] : Their house is only five years old.
4. We’re hoping to have the house sold by the end of the year.
5. They’re showing two films from the year 1977.
6. [last/next year] : Profits are lower than last year.
7. The first weeks of the new school year
8. [the financial/fiscal/tax year] : A budget for the fiscal year 2002
9. It wasn’t until years later that I realized how foolish I’d been.
10. [for years] : He hasn’t been back to the country for years.
11. Conditions were very different in the postwar years (=the period after the war).