mid-yearn.adv.adj.

c1480 (a1400) St. Julian 446 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 471 Þe chyld semyt þan fere mare clere þane is þe sowne in myd-ȝere.

1855 Rep. Explor. & Surv. Route Railroad VII. ii. 128 The travel over the desert would then be safe and comparatively pleasant even in mid-year.

1991 Washington Flyer Sept. 8/1 Since mid-year there has been growing concern about the recession resuming.

1997 One Village Catal. May–Aug. 13/2 A new assortment comes into stock from mid year.

1840 H. Alford Poet. Wks. (1868) 124 In it was that same form, The spectre of my dream, Now in mid years, and pale Methought.

1882 Princeton Rev. July–Dec. 206 In the mid-year of this decade, Massachusetts had sixteen productive societies.

1894 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 57 53 Taking the mortality statistics for the decade 1871-80, and the drunkenness statistics for the mid-year 1876, the following relations were found.

1918 E. L. Masters Toward Gulf 96 In the mid-years we cease to know Through disenchanted eyes.

1992 H. Carruth Coll. Shorter Poems 1946–91 xiv. 374 I disclaim whatever knowledge I thought once to have of them, but that was in the mid-years of anguish and pain.

1895 Scribner's Mag. July 103 She had never been in the room but once before, and that was on a most inauspicious occasion just after the mid-years.

1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 216 He had reckoned upon..a dance after the Mid-Years.

1920 F. S. Fitzgerald This Side of Paradise i. ii. 54 February dripped snow and rain, the cyclonic freshman mid-years passed.

1946 New Yorker 5 Jan. 21/3 He's home from Yale on his midyears.

1973 E. Taylor Serpent under It (1974) v. 82 This may set us back months. Instead of getting our degrees at midyears, we'll probably have to wait now until next June.

1608 in J. S. Dobie Munim. Irvine (1891) II. 247 To Thomas Boyd provest for his fie mid yeir.

1903 J. Miller As it was in Beginning v. v. 28 Night here, mid-year, is as a span, Thor came, as comes a king of war, Came only as a hero can.

1989 San Francisco Focus Oct. 103/2 If he hadn't graduated midyear he would have made All-City, along with the great Ken Flower and center Bill Stephenson.

1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 236 A large party was given on the eve of the Harvard Mid-Year Examinations.

1901 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 154 To teachers the series of meetings is a series of mid-year institutes.

1912 M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 218 In the midyear recess of her sophomore year.

1932 Irish Press 10 Mar. 5/3 This corresponded to an annual rate of 14·6 per thousand of the estimated mid-year population for the year 1931.

1982 Observer 10 Jan. 17/6 The company's mid-year results for 1981–82..saw a £3 million pre-tax profit turned into a loss of more than £8 million.

1994 John F. Kennedy Sch. Govt. (Harvard Univ.) Catal. 1994–95 50 January 17–26..Mid-year examinations (in-class, take-home).