Hello Brian,

Just for the fun of it:
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=SUM(--(INDEX(pfreq(YEAR(A1:A76),B1:B76),,1)=2008))

But what's maybe more helpful:
Select an area of two columns and as many rows as you have years and
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=pfreq(pfreq(YEAR(A1:A76),B1:B76))
Not you have your statistic for all years.

Pfreq you can get at my site www.sulprobil.com.

Regards,
Bernd