solar year

How to use solar year in a sentence

• Forty-nine years make a convenient luni-solar cycle, reconciling the lunar month and the tropical solar year.

  The Astronomy of the Bible | E. Walter Maunder

• The adjustment of the solar year to correspond with the lunar year and of the two with the civil year dates from this period.

  Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, July 1899 | Various

• Astronomy was sufficiently understood for the accurate measurement of time in the divisions of the solar year.

  Hernando Cortez | John S. C. Abbott

• Twelve lunar periods, making up approximately the solar year, gave peculiar importance to the number twelve also.

  A History of Science, Volume 1(of 5) | Henry Smith Williams

• The length of the solar year first accurately determined by Dionysius, in the astronomical canon.

  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 2 | Various