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The phrase "a year broken" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a context discussing a year that has been disrupted or negatively impacted, but it is not a common expression.
Example: "After the pandemic, many people felt that 2020 was a year broken by uncertainty and loss."
Alternatives: "a disrupted year" or "a shattered year".
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Routes across the atlantic require more than 50 repairs a year, broken by a range of things including fishing trawlers, anchors, earthquakes and water pressure at depth.
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At least once a year, breaking news would pump out of the Spanish radio stations that it had finally happened, Fidel had died.
Meluskey's homer, his fifth of the year, broke a 2-2 tin in the fifth inning.
After a year, we broke up.
"It took a year to break the ice," she said.
But, hey, for $390,000 a year, you break your lease".
Within a year, he broke Mr Saakashvili's United National Movement's seemingly impregnable hold on power.
It took Lemaitre less than a year to break 11 seconds in the 100.
Then a week, a month, a year later, break out the crank.
It needed to sell about 40,000 a year to break even.
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