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- adverbs - The variations of in for the last few days - English Language . . .
This same question was recently asked by you on English Language Learners wasn't it? I believe the answer there was that none of them are correct because all of them should say, "the Internet" Once that is fixed, then the only viable sentences are the ones that use "for the last few days", "in the last few days" and "in a few days" Although the meaning of the last one is different
- time - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The potential ambiguity is because in "within 10 days before the flight", the following noun phrase "10 days before the flight" has a form that would generally cause it to be interpreted as a point in time rather than a range
- Meaning of within 30 days of [a certain date in the future] in context?
I am required to submit a certain form "within 30 days of [a certain date in the future]" I suspect that the form's author actually meant to say something like "at least 30 days before [a certain date]"
- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
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, or closing time of that day, or what And does "7 days" mean 7 calendar days, or 7 business days? Etc
- these days - what is the correct usage meaning?
The spell check immediately underlined the word 'days' and claimed it needed an apostrophe after the 's', creating days' I always assumed the term 'these days' referred to 'recent times' or what is commonplace at present It seems the spell check takes it as the 'families and friends' that belong to the days being discussed Which is correct?
- Can you say within 90 days after? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
I understand that you can say, "within 30 days of receiving your application", but I am seeing more and more "within 30 days after your application is received" Is the latter grammatical?
- Nowadays versus now days [closed] - English Language Usage Stack . . .
The Corpus of Contemporary American English does have a few cites for now days, but frankly, just look at the figures yourself: nowadays 3167 now days 7 And here are the figures from the British National Corpus: nowadays 1556 now days 0 That's how tiny a minority you're in For once, the spellchecker is actually right
- grammar - within few next days OR within next few days? - English . . .
Which of the following sentences is grammatically correct? and why? The project will be completed within next few days OR The project will be completed within few next days
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