Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
banner year
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even elsewhere, 1995 was a banner year for conspiracy theories.
▪ Further, she predicted that the division will have another banner year and set a new record in the current fiscal year.
▪ I had a banner year, and it took another banner year to beat me.
▪ Nineteen seventy-seven was a banner year for me, because I was doing all four at once.
▪ Realtors are pinning their hopes for another banner year on low mortgage rates.
▪ True, it had not been a banner year for Republican candidates, thanks to the resignation of President Nixon that summer.
Usage examples of "banner year".
Glad to hear your spouse has been picked to run for the state senate seat there, but cross your fingers, Sarey - '76 doesn't exactly look like' a banner year for elephant-lovers.
That meant that each child got two toys this year, instead of just one, so this was going to be quite a banner year so far as they were concerned.
If there's trouble during the merger, bleeding over to the next, banner year, it will eat at the foundation of the company.