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- forty-five hundred - WordReference Forums
No, forty-five hundred = four thousand five hundred = 4,500 "Forty-five hundred" is the most common way of expressing this in speech The other way sounds slightly more formal Ex 2200= twenty-two hundred The area has enough seating for seventy-eight hundred (7,800) people X college has (5,550) fifty-five hundred (and) fifty undergraduate
- The landscape hardens into a dungeon of space - WordReference Forums
美国散文集The Solace of Open Spaces中的难句 At twenty, thirty, and forty degrees below zero, not only does your car not work, but neither do your mind and body The landscape hardens into a dungeon of space During the winter, while I was riding to find a new calf, my jeans froze to the saddle, and 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
- Forty or Fourty - WordReference Forums
Forty is the correct spelling, at least in the United States It does get confusing, because it's related to the word "four", but "40" is properly spelled "forty"
- one hundred forty. - WordReference Forums
In American English dialect I constantly see numbers over one hundred written as for example " one hundred forty " compared to British English " one hundred and forty Is this lack of the conjunction " and " grammatically correct, and is this due to the Spanish influence " ciento cuarenta "
- 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
- the wrong side of forty - WordReference Forums
How would you idiomatically say "the wrong side of forty"? It's a humorous way of saying you're over 40 without giving away your real age Quiero decir (referring to a person running a marathon for the first time) : I'm too old for that carry-on I'm the wrong side of forty! Ya no estoy para
- Forty-two five - WordReference Forums
"Forty-two five" is a natural way to say 42 5 (forty two and a half) But it does not tell us the units Forty two whats? As a guess, it is "thousands of dollars" so it means Charlie owed $42,500 to illegal moneylenders or illegal bookies He is using "Shylocks" and "Shys" to mean money-lenders That is a reference to Shakespeare
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