Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
- Christian era
- the time period beginning with the supposed year of Christ's birth
- red-letter day
- a memorably happy or noteworthy day (from the custom of marking holy days in red on church calendars)
- sabbatical year
- a sabbatical leave lasting one year
- kHz
- one thousand periods per second
- luminous flux
- the rate of flow of light energy
- wpm
- the rate at which words are produced (as in speaking or typing)
- Age of Reptiles
- from 230 million to 63 million years ago
- annum
- (Latin) year
- mid-March
- the middle part of March
- 1950s
- the decade from 1950 to 1959
- long run
- a period of time sufficient for factors to work themselves out
- ROI
- (corporate finance) the amount, expressed as a percentage, that is earned on a company's total capital calculated by dividing the total capital into earnings before interest, taxes, or dividends are paid
- mid-September
- the middle part of September
- Olympiad
- one of the four-year intervals between Olympic Games; used to reckon time in ancient Greece for twelve centuries beginning in 776 BC
- Christmas Day
- a Christian holiday celebrating the birth of Christ; a quarter day in England, Wales, and Ireland
- old
- past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- name day
- the feast day of a saint whose name one bears
- running time
- the length of time that a movie or tv show runs
- period
- the end or completion of something
- anniversary
- the date on which an event occurred in some previous year (or the celebration of it)
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