annual event

collocation in English

meaningsofannualandevent

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annual
adjective[before noun]
uk
/ˈæn.ju.əl/us
/ˈæn.ju.əl/
happening once ...
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event
noun[C]
uk
/ɪˈvent/us
/ɪˈvent/
anything that happens, especially something important ...
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(Definition ofannualandeventfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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In schools in which the opera has become anannualevent, students are also challenged by the standards set by the previous year's opera company.
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That is more than the windfall tax raises, and it is an ever-recurringannualevent.
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Do we really want to make that anannualevent?
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It is at least anannualevent; it may now become a six-monthly event.
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It is anannualeventwhich is mainly of interest to manufacturers of agricultural machinery.
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Without thatannualeventthe lordship ceases to be.
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It is also something of anannualevent.
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As he says, they are by now anannualeventoccasioned by the inflation from which we continue to suffer.
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That apparently consisted of reducing the housing plans from anannualeventto an event that occurred every four years.
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It made a deep impression on me but it was certainly not my intention that speaking should be anannualevent.
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However, there is no reason why we should not have anannualeventto consider this important issue.
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I welcome the fact that in future this is to be anannualevent.
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Is this application to be anannualevent?
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I hope that it will become anannualevent.
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This debate has become anannualeventfor me.
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I believe that this refit is almost anannualevent.
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The national eisteddfod is an importantannualeventwhich attracts upwards of 135,000 visitors each year.
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It was arranged that the visit could be anannualevent.
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Debates on the order are anannualevent.
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