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- every second per second a second | WordReference Forums
Light is much faster than sound, and it travels as far as thousands of miles every second This sentence is from my English grammar test book, and they say it's not wrong in grammar What I want to ask you is about "every second" "~ thousands of miles a second" or "~ thousands of
- In the 2000s - WordReference Forums
In the two thousands In the early two thousands In the early years of two thousand I agree with Tim, these are probably the safest options Another one used quite a lot in the print media, initially as a joke and then later in all seriousness was "the noughties" - a play on the word "nought" for 0 and the word "naughty"
- Sprinkles and 100,000 - Expression - WordReference Forums
The consensus view appears to be that "hundreds and thousands" is used in British English and "sprinkles" in American English Also, that BE speakers would understand "sprinkles"
- 2 thousand (s) student (s) - WordReference Forums
Hello everyone I heard my school's admission officer say this to a perspective student She is a Chinese lady who moved to Japan 10 years ago She said "We have 2 thousands student in our school " I think it should be "We have 2 thousand students in our school " because we are talking about
- dozens of - WordReference Forums
pphahaha Yes, in informal English dozens means a lot It does not mean a specific number or range of numbers You can see it as part of a scale of approximate numbers: a couple ~ a few ~ a dozen ~ dozens ~ scores (a bit archaic) ~ hundreds ~ thousands ~ millions
- by the gallon by the thousands | WordReference Forums
Is "thousands" in C a quantity unit? Like "drinks beer by the gallon", it's meant to signify a large number But here, unlike "drinks beer by the gallon", it's likely possible the movie star does receive at least a thousand letters in a certain period, which could be a day or a week or a month
- ten fifteen thousand - WordReference Forums
Just now in a video I heard the speaker saying " The average sort of hunter-gatherer will take ten fifteen thousand steps a day " I wonder whether the italics mean ten 15000, ie, they walk150000 steps a day
- by the thousands the thousand | WordReference Forums
Scams by the thousands - thousands and thousands of scams It's normally by the thousand, not by the thousands Craigslist It means that the Nigerians, well known for e-mail spam, are using Craigslist as a source of e-mail addresses
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