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in two weeks/ weeks' or week's time? - WordReference Forums : hi there can someone tell me what expression I should use in two weeks/ weeks' or week's time? Thank you
four week (') (s) (') holiday - WordReference Forums : Referring to a holiday of a duration of four weeks, which one is correct: (a) a four week holiday (b) a four weeks holiday (c) a four week's holiday (d) a four weeks' holiday If I remember right, (c) is the one to go for although the logical one to me would be (d). Thanks!
qd, bid, tid, qid (doses) - WordReference Forums : bid is twice a day. A latin abbreviation. qd = once daily bid = twice a day tid = three times a day qid = four times a day it is short for bis in die, ter in die and so on.
"around five p.m." or "at around 5 p.m." | WordReference Forums : Hello all, my question might be a typical case of splitting hairs since it doesn't make much of a difference whether or not you use the preposition "at"... but just out of curiosity, can anybody tell me if both of the following sentences are gramatically correct? 1) It gets dark at around 5...
hundred or hundreds? - WordReference Forums : Hi! I would like to ask if anybody knows when we use "hundreds" instead of hundred. Thank you in advance!
Telling the Time (0 = 'oh') | WordReference Forums : Hi everybody, We can tell the time this way: It's one fifteen. It's one twenty. But: It's one oh five. When to add "oh"? I am wondering whether it's one oh ten or one ten :-< Thank you very much in advance for your help. Regards, Linh (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
twice larger than ~ = 2 times?/ 3 times? as large as - WordReference Forums : Twice larger = twice as large = 2 x the size. I thought this had been discussed before, but have not yet found a thread.
Telling time: a quarter or quarter [to/past] - WordReference Forums : I am wondering if you could help me with the following: Which of the two is correct? it's a quarter to/past two OR it's quarter to/past two Does it have to do anything with British or American English? Some school books present it in one way and some others in another way.
«x times less» ? bad way to express a ratio? - WordReference Forums : X is 4% of Y would be another way As long as you avoid a comparative (larger than, less than, smaller than, etc) you can use times or fractions. If you think your audience might be "arithemtically challenged" (i.e. simply would not understand a fraction like 1/25th) you will need to turn the sentence around and use 25 times bigger than.
Once is [a] chance, twice is [a] coincidence, three times is [a ... : Hello, I wonder why the article a is used with the word pattern only. Why are not all the bold words used either with the article or none? Once is chance, twice is coincidence, three times is a pattern Even when I came across a different wording of the quote the article issue is still there...