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
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
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 common year of the Greeks originally had 360 days—twelve months of thirty days.
From History of Astronomy by Forbes, George
