The BNC attests only the following four occurrences of "year
anniversary", all from spoken texts. There are also about fifty cases
where "year" and "anniversary" are within three words of each other,
typically in phrases like "my anniversary this year" or "this year's
anniversary".
<hit text=JNF n=426> I am here partly because I was fortunate enough to have
the happiest and healthiest of childhoods and I see it as a very happy
obligation to try to do my best to ensure that all over the world it is
possible for other children to enjoy something of what I had. God bless you all
and I hope to be walking alongside you during the seventy fifth <hi>year
anniversary </hi>efforts. </hit>
<comment>
[This is speaker PS4E2, a female actress, addressing a "Save the Children"
Meeting, on October 1993. Interlocutors in the same text include someone
called "Princess Anne" ("occupation : princess" it says here), but
regrettably she doesn't say the required phrase. Or not here, anyway.]
</comment>
<hit text=K66 n=172> Regarding your beginnings, you were born in battle on
August ni eighth, nineteen forty three. No occupied France but a target into
Germany. A week and a half later you struck Ragansberg and shuttled to Africa.
On the, this your third mission you won a distinguished unit citation which has
been pointed out. That day was the one <hi>year anniversary </hi>of, of Eighth
Air Force operations in England. From the humble beginnings of the previous
year you flew the first great test of concept of long-range strategic
bombardment. It was a test that the Three-Ninetieth passed with flying colours
destroying thirteen enemy aircraft and achieving excellent bombing results.
Three hundred and one missions. </hit>
<comment>
This comes from the Suffolk Sound Archive: a speech formally opening a
restored control tower and airfield as a memorial to an American Air Force
base. No other information available (except that the man speaking is called
Horace).
</comment>
<hit text=KD8 n=7651>
PSOLK: So you are off tomorrow aren't you?
Can we, are we gonna let him? Mm
We gonna let him have the day off?
PSOLM: Why er why?
PSOLK: Well we were gonna go to the pub and celebrate my three <hi>year
anniversary </hi>of suffering this department. Ah what a bore
PSOLM: I can't even get back
PSOLK: [laugh]
PS000: What three years in the department or pardon? Which one's the bloke?
</hit>
<comment>
PSOLK is Martine, 25 yr old female, senior technician; PSOLM is Merielle, 55
yr old female, housewife. PS00 is an unrecognized speaker, presumably the
subject of the conversation, which is going on in an office in Mold where
Martine works. She's the one carrying the walkman, by the way.
</comment>
<hit text=KRT n=3961>
PS63L: Exactly when, it's difficult to say. You're talking about about two
months from now we'd have our first <hi>year anniversary</hi>. We are planning
to have some very big activities around that date, if indeed we're not back by
that time. We very much hope we will be.
PS63K: Anna Wagstaff, Harriet Eysner, thank you very much. James Ellis who
represents Oxford and Buckinghamshire in the European Parliament says a unified
Germany would be good for Europe. </hit>
<comment>
These speakers are both female broadcasters, speaking on FOX FM News (a local
radio station).
</comment>
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