quinquennium

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This period—which the Roman emperor Trajan labelled the quinquennium Neronis—matches up almost exactly with the time of Seneca’s greatest influence over Nero.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 26, 2015

Most phenomenally popular book of the quinquennium, he would report, was Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse.

From Time Magazine Archive

Studio assumantur, qui usque ad quatriennium vel quinquennium, donec praefatum Studium in bonis studentibus laudabiliter progressum acceperit, regant et doceant in eodem.

From The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time by Walsh, James J.

From 1858 to 1862 the rate varied between 42.37 and 34.80 cents per bushel for the whole trip of roundly 1000 m., the average rate in the quinquennium being 38.43.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various

In the quinquennium ending 1885 the number of such cigars was 34 millions.

From Tobacco Leaves Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by Brennan, W. A.