Chananya immediately introduced a leap year, and the celebration of the festivals as had been customary in Judaea.
They repaired directly to the plain of Rimmon, made notable during the Revolution, to consider the introduction of a leap year, the calendar probably having become incorrect.
The consent of the president was required for the interpolation of a leap year, and all letters or mandates addressed to near or distant communities were sent in his name.
In Leap Year, it is a common notion that broad Beans grow the wrong way, i.
The reason given is that, because it is the ladies' year, the Beans always lie the wrong way--in reference to the privilege possessed by the fair sex of courting in Leap Year.
In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty-nine days.
Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder.
The first seven letters of the alphabet are used for this purpose, the same letter standing for Sunday during a whole year (except in leap year, when the letter is changed at the end of February).
In common years this month contains twenty-eight days; in the bissextile, or leap year, it has twenty- nine days.
Note: Every year whose number is divisible by four without a remainder is a leap year, excepting the full centuries, which, to be leap years, must be divisible by 400 without a remainder.
Every year which divides by 4 without a remainder is a leap year, except the centenaries, which are printed upright.
Leaving the surgeon to caution Mrs. Fairbank on the subject of Leap Year, I went to the stables to see Mr. Raven.
Do you happen to know," he said, "that this year is Leap Year?
But if leap year begins on Sunday, it ends on Monday, and the following year begins on Tuesday; while any given day of the month is two days later in the week than the corresponding date of the preceding year.
Thus 1800, although divisible by four, was not a leap year, but a common year.
Hence, in four hundred years, we should allow a day too much, and therefore, we let the four hundredth remain a leap year.
Take any year which is leap year, then, by passing over eleven years, we either throw Easter one day forward, or six days back; and it is about three to two that it will be thrown forward.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "leap year" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
