twelvemonth
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The other three gain and lose little more than a twelvemonth on him.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2013
A twelvemonth sinceI knew her not at all.Our hearths were crowded thenbut now it is fittingthat one of them bides cold.A fire shared is a fire cheaper by far.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 28, 2010
Each year they see what new and wondrous phenomena the world's leading aeronautical laboratory has evoked in the twelvemonth past.
From Time Magazine Archive
Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first locomotive—the Stourbridge Lion, at Honesdale, Penn.—had been operated less than a twelvemonth before.
From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward
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