in recent years
年───year;年───year
Spending has increased year on year.───去年同期比较，开销增加了。
They separated last year.───他们于去年分居了。
The year was 1840.───那是1840年。
A few days later, at nearly midnight on the longest night of the year, Gabriel Oak could be heard playing his flute on Nor-combe Hill.───几天以后，在一年之中最漫长晚上的将近午夜时分，人们可以听到加布里埃尔·奥克在诺库姆山上吹奏着长笛。
Reduced to a minority, Congress is now looking for other allies to help it to hobble through to the polls later this year.───变成少数派的国会现在正在寻找其他盟友以帮助自己度过今年即将到来的民意调查。
On New Year's Eve, less than a week after the trial, Eduard Kuznetsov was taken from his cell, certain he was going to be shot.───当年的新年前夜，在审判结束不到一周之后，库兹涅佐夫从监牢里被提出，他当时确定自己要被处决了。
They get three crops of rice a year.
December is the last month of the year.
May good fortune find you this year.
That song was a hit last year.
The package includes 20 days' paid holiday a year.