Sentence examples for calendar leap from inspiring English sources

A Julian calendar leap year cycle is four years, therefore the days of the week repeat on the same dates every 4 × 7 = 28 years.

Another calendar leap brings us to Scenes From Later Life; not until then can he bring himself to tell his Elspeth that he can't live without her.

His new-and-improved calendar has leap years, but every year that ended in 00 was not to be a leap year.

Each month of the Chinese calendar, including leap months, begins on the day of the new moon, so its length is either 29 or 30 days.

29 denoted on calendars as Leap Day.

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On its introduction, the Gregorian calendar required a leap of 10 days to correct its more-imperfect predecessor's aberration.

A Chinese-American, my grandfather celebrates his birthday according to the lunar calendar, which has a "leap month" every 12 years.

Galeano's new "Children of the Days" is for those who feel that history has become too much of a burden to bear — a collection of inspirational wisdom, its 366 entries, one for each calendar date in the (leap) year, keeping alive the memory of courage and beauty amid the carnage.

Daniel said that the Messiah would come 483 years (Jewish lunar 360 day years) which is 476 years on the Graeco-Roman 365 day calendar, "365.25 days for leap year", after the orders would be given to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.

Religious Muslims and Jews today still use modified lunar calendars with an occasional leap month thrown in to prevent the months from wandering too far away from their solar seasons.