In a corpus containing a full year of Canadian English newspaper articles
(approx. 130 million words), the form "ordinal+anniversary" (where the
ordinal is between first and fifth) occurred 448 times. On the other
hand, the form "number+year+anniversary" led to 30 matches, showing that
this form is somewhat alive and well, at least in Canadian journalistic text.
>> "first anniversary"+"second anniversary"+"third anniversary"+"fourth anniversary"+"fifth anniversary"
1: 448 matches
>> "year anniversary"
2: 30 matches
>> pr
218955327, ..t of their 25-year anniversary celebration, the Montreal Expos p..
644417198, ..the ISU's 100-year anniversary in Davos. The night before we lef..
644696711, ..the ISU's 100-year anniversary in Davos. The night before we lef..
606168194, ..rated its one-year anniversary in June, is host to 250 different..
248497535, ..guess the one-year anniversary is a significant date,'' Heath sa..
253072094, ..guess the one-year anniversary is a significant date," Heath say..
255905794, ..guess the one-year anniversary is a significant date," Heath say..
296785837, ..Silva`s first year anniversary living in Canada, but there won`t..
205149588, ..efore the one-year anniversary marking the abduction of French, ..
163309032, ..arked the one-year anniversary of Calgary Flames` most lopsided ..
414979332, ..efore the one-year anniversary of his spectacular wreck at Pocon..
429616042, ..marks the one year anniversary of humanitarian airlifts to Saraj..
429377374, ..marks the one year anniversary of humanitarian airlifts to Saraj..
325009040, ..like her two- year anniversary of sobriety. "I hadn't even been..
328527923, ..like her two- year anniversary of sobriety. "I hadn't even been..
270069531, ..ing. The one-year anniversary of the bombing murder of anti-Maf..
197915211, ..is week's one-year anniversary of the Bosnian war only finds the..
197913691, ..is week's one-year anniversary of the Bosnian war only finds the..
255864432, ..sed on the 20-year anniversary of the date -- May 25, 1977 -- th..
208870847, ..marks the one-year anniversary of the date when Kristen French w..
545092314, ... 18, the one-year anniversary of the deadly blast. (A condensed..
545771769, ... 18, the one-year anniversary of the deadly blast. Journal edi..
251460613, ..ay is the one-year anniversary of the team bus crash on the New ..
176266012, ..age of the 50-year anniversary of the Warsaw uprising. After rea..
266281450, ..ke place this year, anniversary or not. "The most spectacular s..
161397154, ..o direct a 10-year anniversary production of Judith Thompson's W..
144754330, ..ays their 100-year anniversary recipe collection is almost ready..
208363905, ..on each fifth-year anniversary. Room and board: The value of bo..
103722536, ..ing its 1,000-year anniversary this summer with sports and Germa..
495783033, ..rates its one-year anniversary this week, says it has been a tou..
Lucie Langlois
Bilingual Canadian Dictionary
University of Ottawa