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To increase decrease reduce by X times times. - WordReference Forums I don't think "fourfold" is used much currently in AE; I don't know about BE I've seen x -fold in older written material, but I especially wouldn't expect to see it in technical material If you are dealing with engineers, "by four times" ought to mean "× 4" and you should be all right If you are not, and the people you are speaking to might think "by four times" means to add an amount that
3-year v. 3 years experience - WordReference Forums It was a wonderful three-year experience" "This position requires three years' experience" means, as you know, work experience Frankly, I dislike this shortening of the proper phrase which is, in my mind "three years of experience" To make "years'" possessive never made sense to me although there are others who would disagree with me
an hours drive or an hours drive | WordReference Forums From time to time I run into the same construction but it lacks 's Is it a colloquial thing or a mistake? For example a two-hours' drive = a two-hour drive (colloquial or mistake?) a three-minutes' talk = a three-minute talk a four weeks'-work = a four week-work Neither sounds idiomatic to me, because we don't say "a work" in this context
In ten days or days time? - WordReference Forums The style guide for Guardian Unlimited shows a distinction between adjectival and adverbial terms, which leads to a useful test: Use apostrophes in phrases such as in two days' time, 12 years' imprisonment and six weeks' holiday, where the time period (two days) modifies a noun (time), but not in nine months pregnant or three weeks old, where the time period is adverbial (modifying an
increase decrease (by) . . . times - WordReference Forums We almost invariably use "doubled" in your situation, and "trebled" and "quadrupled" where it increased three-fold and four-fold respectively In general I would say we use terms like "increased five-fold" rather than "increased five times", because "five times" could mean on five separate occasions, rather than five being a multiplier
Three best vs best three - WordReference Forums If papers are compared in threes, each three papers evaluated against each other three, the three that are better than any other three are "the best three papers" If papers are compared one by one, and three particular papers, equally good, are better than any paper outside the three, they are "the three best papers"
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)
all (the) three of them - WordReference Forums All three sentences - this refers to the specific three sentences to which the conversation refers You could not simply start a conversation with this sentence as there is no frame of reference