Sentence examples for close year from inspiring English sources

"It's a very close year - every album could be a winner," said William Hill spokesman Graham Sharpe.

It's funny, I hated 2003, that close year with Jan [Ullrich], riding through the field [to avoid Beloki's crash], or crashing on Luz Ardiden.

This brought to a close years of attempts, led by the US, to ditch it.

Averaging opening and closing year asset values, the 2005 return looks to be about 4.9%.

The national population census is conducted every 10 years and Year 2000 is the closest year before the Wenchuan Earthquake.

For each year t m where the 20 24 age bracket is missing, we take data from the closest year t c with complete data.

Data from 2006 were used for all country-level variables, or the closest year if data were unavailable for 2006.

The year 1998 was selected as it is the closest year to the time when the selected studies were initiated or expanded to include additional cohorts.

The year 2000 was the closest year available to the beginning of the ODA data for outcome variables, and thus is considered as a baseline value.

His closing years were full of gloom.

This broke down in the closing years of his reign.