The phrase "year commenced" is grammatically correct and commonly used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the start date of a specific period of time, usually a calendar or fiscal year. Example: "The year commenced on January 1st." This sentence indicates that the new year officially began on January 1st.
The year commenced on a high note following the capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003.
After a rather dry start to Australia's 1994-95 wet season, the year commenced with subnormal January rains along the northwestern and eastern coastlines, but at least twice the normal January rain pelted areas from central Queensland southward through eastern Tasmania, resulting in localized flooding.
The 2010-11 school year commenced on September 27, 2010, and will conclude on June 28 , 2011
By that season's end, SNL began to gel, and once the second year commenced, the show really bloomed, mixing varied comedy moods and styles, taking conceptual chances.
On 14 September, the school year commenced in the Syrian Arab Republic with more than 1.5 million children unable to join classrooms as a result of the crisis.
The war on terrorism intensified over the year, commencing with the killing in January of Abu Laith al-Libi, a senior al-Qaeda commander, by a U.S. CIA drone.
Research Council stipends will rise to £6800 in the coming academic year, to £7500 for the academic year commencing 2001, and will finally reach £9000 in 2003-04.
But, if the recommendations pass the DFG's academic senate in August, Mlynek hopes that at the very least the new regulations for independent positions might be out in time for the new academic year commencing in fall 2000.
Funding will be halved for the year commencing April 2015 and there is, as yet, no government commitment to fund further years of the programme.
Funding will be halved for the year commencing April 2015 and there is, as yet, no government commitment to fund further years of the program.
As the decade of Davis ended, so the Hendry years commenced.
