common year
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Likewise, the Ethiopian calendar consists of 13 months, which includes a 13th month consisting of only 5 days in a common year and 6 days in a leap year.
From Fox News • Feb. 29, 2020
These kinds of changes are common year to year in the current marketplace, since employers are constantly looking for ways to limit their own expenses in the face of rising costs.
From Time • Jun. 24, 2010
Add 4,000 to the common year; thus, for 1903, write: A. L. 5903.
From Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason together with the Ceremony of Installation, Laying Corner Stones, Dedications, Masonic Burial, Etc. by Thornburgh, George
The intercalary period is 33 years,—one day being added to the common year seven times successively at the end of four years, and the eighth intercalation being deferred till the end of the fifth year.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
This is done whenever what should be Julian leap year is made a common year, as in 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, etc.
From A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Smith, David Eugene
