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

But every common year consists of 365 days, or 52 weeks and 1 day, so that the following year will begin one day later in the week than the year preceding.

From Our Calendar by Packer, George Nichols

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

There has been no irregularity in the recurrence of leap year every four years since 1800, except in 1900, which was a common year, although it came fourth after the preceding leap year.

From The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference by Triemens, Joseph