Sentence examples for leap month from inspiring English sources

A moon phase aperture is at 6 o'clock and the traditional Chinese month, date, and leap month are shown on another subdial at 9 o'clock.

Thanks to the insertion of a lunar leap month last year, the Chinese New Year holiday falls especially late this February (it begins on the 18th).

"For example, the next leap month will be in 2014, where there will be two consecutive ninth months," he continued.

Both follow a 354 day lunar year, but the Islamic version has no leap year while the Hebrew calendar adds a leap month every two or three years.

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

As a lunar year is approximately 11 days shorter than a solar year, a leap month is added at regular intervals to preserve the match with the cycle of the seasons.

Last year retail sales were strong from February through May, then flat through August, up in September and October and once more sideways through December.; The Fed abstained from raising rates in late May, but dont be lulled.; After that retail sales leaped in January and February and resulted in the blistering 5.6% annual rate real GDP growth in the first quarter.

That is just as well, because he has many hurdles to leap before December, when the European Union will either honour or withdraw its conditional promise to open membership talks.The stakes could hardly be higher.

There is no sign of it on the foundation's website, as the "Upcoming Events" page leaps from February to April.

The cost of insuring against a Berkshire default leaped this month, as the stock fell to a five-year low.

products that last more than three years, leaped last month by the most in two years, the government reported Wednesday in a separate release.