Sentence examples for because of leap from inspiring English sources
The comparison was distorted by the fact that there was one more day in February this year than last because of leap year.
Walgreen, one of the largest American drugstore chains, posted higher-than-expected quarterly profit on Monday, helped by cost-cutting and an extra day in the quarter because of leap year.
Because of leap years, these tricks only work within certain blocks of a certain number of years and only when you begin on the first year in the block.
The government is taking action because of leaps and bounds being made elsewhere in the field of scientific inquiry.
The apparent jump in dual cases is not because of a leap in infections but because African countries are doing a better job of testing patients for both diseases.
Because of a leap year in the Iranian calendar and an Islamic holiday, the official commemoration of the event will be Friday.
Rick MacDonald, an economist with Standard & Poor's MMS, a market research and analysis firm in San Francisco, thinks the focus will be on wages and unemployment because the payroll number will probably have two distortions for March: a lift from hiring for government census workers and an extra week because of the leap year.
This is because it is particularly hard to judge the impact of leap years on China's economy.
The interest toward LEAP is increasing because of their intriguing structural and functional features, leading to the discovery of new types of LEAP, as for example in the case of a new dehydrin pattern from Tuber borchii [ 22] or the two forms (differing mainly by an internal deletion) of a LEAP from a bdelloid rotifer [ 23].
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