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ANNUALLY
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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
Classified under:
Pertainym:
annual (occurring or payable every year)
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, hypertension affects a billion people and accounts for 7.5 million deaths annually, according to the WHO.
(Micronutrients can counter lead effects in blood pressure, SciDev.Net)
They found that trading just 9 per cent of the fish caught annually in Namibia locally would solve the country’s iron deficiency problems.
(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)
That's how an experimental malnutrition test made with bacterial innards could work one day to expose widespread zinc deficiencies blamed for roughly half a million deaths annually.
(Test for life-threatening nutrient deficit is made from bacteria entrails, National Science Foundation)
Dead zones are a major water quality issue with an estimated total of more than 550 occurring annually worldwide.
(2015 Gulf of Mexico dead zone ‘above average’, NOAA)
We usually have one Luckiest Day of the Year annually, but next year the universe will not yield one, so enjoy this one!
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Homes were visited annually to collect household dust samples from the living room and child’s bedroom.
(Infant Exposure to Allergens May Help Prevent Wheezing, NIH)
Arsenic poisoning from drinking contaminated groundwater affects about 140 million people in 50 countries and an estimated 43,000 people die of it annually, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
(Watermelon rind a cheap filter for arsenic in groundwater, SciDev.Net)
Although seagrass meadows occupy less than 0.2 percent of the world's oceans, they are responsible for more than 10 percent of all carbon buried annually in the sea.
(Sharks, the seagrass protectors, National Science Foundation)
These glaciers already contribute significantly to sea level rise, releasing almost as much ice into the ocean annually as the entire Greenland Ice Sheet.
(West Antarctic Glacier loss appears unstoppable, NASA)
Monitoring Io's surface annually will reveal the style of volcanic eruptions there, constrain the magma composition, and accurately map the spatial distribution of the heat flow and potential variations over time.
(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)
