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- Ten years has passed or Ten years have passed?
I would definitely use a singular in "Ten days weeks months years is a long time to wait " If "ten years" really means "a period of ten years" then I'm happy with a singular: " After ten years has passed you can apply for possession of the land " But if you want to emphasise the cycle of time, then "have" sounds better Ten years have passed - ten long, lonely years - since Bill died at sea
- 2500 = twenty-five hundred? - WordReference Forums
Americans may pronounce four-digit numbers with non-zero tens and ones as pairs of two-digit numbers without saying "hundred" and inserting "oh" for zero tens: "twenty-six fifty-nine" or "forty-one oh five"
- Inst. means instant, as in this month? | WordReference Forums
Even when I arrived in bureaucratic-land, almost forty years ago, nobody used "inst" to mean "this month" The forms were well known to my mother and to those who taught secretarial skills in the 1950s
- I weigh 10 stone stones - WordReference Forums
I've never heard stones either In Europe we use kilogrammes In the USA they use pounds which makes it difficult as us Brits have to divide the figure by 14 to make it reasonable In Britain one would normally say something like 'Ten stone seven' i e ten stone and seven pounds, rather than a hundred and forty seven pounds To my mind the Imperial system of weights and measures is stupid in
- In a 40 - WordReference Forums
A Forty (40 acres) is known as a 1 4 of a quarter Square Mile In the Homestead Acts (1860s–), farmers were granted a quarter section; a section was nominally 1 square mile containing 640 acres, a quarter section was 160 acres, and the quarter section was itself subdivided into four quarter-quarter sections of 40 acres each: two front forty
- Plough the lower forty - WordReference Forums
It says forty is used because 40 acres was the typical size of a piece of land Lower forty must mean something like the lower part of the land then I am well aware of the lower forty-eight, in fact googling lower forty turns up mostly references to lower forty-eight! I am still not sure our to translate it in French though
- One hundred pounds - WordReference Forums
Is it correct to say: "Are you really going to pay one hundred pounds for those shoes?" When I was in a shop earlier I heard someone say "I'm not going to pay forty pound for those", is this incorrect? Also, when writing, should it always be hyphenated such as one-hundred-pound and forty-pound?
- fortyish-something [sic] | WordReference Forums
Bonjour, Je viens de lire une phrase que je ne parviens pas à traduire La voici : She was a small, fortysh-something woman with a mutitude of dark braids J'aimerais avoir vos suggestions pour la traduction en français de fortyish something Merci à l'avance,
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