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
Only four years in the U. S. foreign service, he had been in Rio less than a twelvemonth.
From Time Magazine Archive
One Year's Reading contains the jottings that "B.B.," then 77, made at the end of every long day over a twelvemonth span.
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 Edward Hungerford
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