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- adverb Alternative form of
toyear .
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Examples
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Having said that, the purchasing index, which is up over 8 percent -- over year - to-year, is certainly impacting us.
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Having said that, the purchasing index, which is up over 8 percent -- over year - to-year, is certainly impacting us.
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Having said that, the purchasing index, which is up over 8 percent -- over year - to-year, is certainly impacting us.
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Not but what he's been shaken a little to-year about this bad corn he has supplied in his contracts.
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Not but what he's been shaken a little to-year about this bad corn he has supplied in his contracts.
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy 1884
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"I ha'n't been there to-year; and now the winter is a-coming on I won't say I shall."
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Well, I reckons they'll hev 'a fine cider-crop to-year if the blossom
Becket and other plays Alfred Tennyson Tennyson 1850
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Betty hath brought more goods into our Lock7 to-year than any five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.
The Beggar's Opera 1728
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_ _Betty_ hath brought more Goods into our Lock to-year than any five of the Gang; and in truth, 'tis a pity to lose so good a Customer.
The Beggar's Opera to which is prefixed the Musick to each Song John Gay 1708
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"It means that our ability to use water in our homes is much less dependent on the year - to-year weather."
Gammerstang commented on the word to-year
(noun/adverb) - This year, after the fashion of to-day, to-night, and to-morrow. "It's very serious for farmers to-year." Also to-month.
--R.E.G. Cole's Words Used in South-West Lincolnshire, 1886
January 14, 2018