The phrase "alternative year" is not commonly used in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts where you are referring to a year that serves as an alternative to another, such as in scheduling or planning.
Example: "The project will be reviewed in the alternative year to allow for more comprehensive data collection."
Alternatives: "alternate year" or "subsequent year".
However, as events march toward the alternative year of 2002, some of his characters come to believe, despite much evidence to the contrary, that they can change the way they live.
Residents may apply for one of our AP Pathology Fellowships and do this training as their AP3 year (note that specialties with subspecialty boards exams may require additional training) or do an alternative year of AP training designed to support the trainee's career plans.
Accordingly, Parties have to reduce the respective emissions from industrial sources, combustion and waste incineration below the respective levels in 1990 or an alternative year between 1985 and 1995.
To investigate this possibility, we estimated a series of specifications for alternative years of education and cognitive ability quartiles using the MxFLS data.
Because it takes about two years for a particular stem to produce an inflorescence, cabbage trees tend to flower heavily in alternative years, with a bumper flowering every three to five years.
Costs sourced from alternative years were inflated to 2006 values by applying the relevant Australian Institute of Health and Welfare health price deflators (17).
Some data were missing from the Welsh Prescription Cost Analysis (PCA) and had to be estimated using PCAs from alternative countries in alternative years.
Costs are reported in 2006 Australian dollars (AUD). Costs sourced from alternative years are presented in 2006 values by applying the relevant price deflators (8).
Do you have an alternative new year celebration?
But with its impressive line-up across the arts, it's the alternative any year.
"IN FROM THE COLD: 10TH ALTERNATIVE NEW YEAR'S DAY SPOKEN WORD PERFORMANCE/EXTRAVAGANZA," Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, at Bleecker Street, Lower East Side.
