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synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . . Leap year is 366 days Quarter is 3 months and one fourth of a year Archaic sennight (sevennight) was just another word for week, as well as hebdomad (more facetious than archaic) Quarantine is 40 days, though limited in its usage Meteorologists may call 5 days a pentad Catholics had octave for 8 days and still have novena for 9
What does days mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The fourth example is the correct interpretation of day's, but with two things to keep in mind First, in your conclusion you flipped the words around incorrectly*; the journey "belongs to" the day, not the other way around
Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day? But people often take today to be the first day of the count, so if on Monday someone says "within 3 days" they are thinking day 1=today, Monday; day 2=Tuesday, day 3=Wednesday There's also the perennial question of whether the last day ends on the multiple of 24 hours from the time when the deadline was given, if it means midnight of that day
Gone are the days when . . . Is this expression often used? Gone are the days when you waited six weeks to close on an assignment of a performing large liquid loan Gone are the days when a school or institution could count on being able to offer a standard curriculum and traditional programs to a steady stream of students and their parents Gone too are the days when communication was top-down
in vs. on for dates - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Dates are reported in English as being in large units like century, decade, era, epoch, period, etc, and also parts of a day -- morning, afternoon, evening; on individual days; and at individual times, plus at night The event occurred in the twentieth century, specifically at 03:43 Greenwich, in the early morning on August tenth, in 1952
grammar - In 2-3 days vs Within 2-3 days - English Language Usage . . . If you really wanted to say that something would happen after 100 days and before 200 days you should say it is happening between 100 and 200 days from now Saying within 100-200 days is (IMO) asking for someone to misinterpret your meaning, sooner or later Different people will undoubtedly come to either of the same two conclusions you
In the upcoming days - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "In the coming days" is acceptable but probably too formal, I agree with @BoldBen's comment that "In the next few days" is a better choice "In the next couple of days" also works, and arguably implies a slightly shorter time frame (the next few days could be 1-4 days, whereas the next couple of days probably means 2-3 days)