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Change log entry 38235
Processed by: richwarm (2011-11-11 10:42:36 UTC)
Comment: Adverb "year after year" has no hyphens :-)

Example ~
"step by step" is an adverb ~ We were shown the process step by step.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/step_by_step
"step-by-step" is an adjective ~ The step-by-step directions were easy to follow.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/step-by-step
Diff:
= 年年 年年 [nian2 nian2] /year after year/yearly/every year/annually/
- 年年有餘 年年有馀 [nian2 nian2 you3 yu2] /lit. (may you) have abundance year-after-year/(an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)/
+ 年年有餘 年年有馀 [nian2 nian2 you3 yu2] /lit. (may you) have abundance year after year/(an auspicious saying for the Lunar New Year)/
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