meaning in context - English Language Learners Stack Exchange I would read this phrase as "basically" Distillation is a process of purifying a liquid, and the essence of a thing is its "intrinsic nature" that "determines its character " Therefore, I would take the phrase to mean "Once the situation has been simplified enough to contain only the most important and defining parts of itself " (definitions from google dictionary)
tense - English Language Learners Stack Exchange What is the difference between The company opened {it’s its} doors in May 2015, and {has since since then} finalized all the contracts And which is better?
The number of vs The numbers of - English Language Learners Stack Exchange They're plural car thefts and robberies in your context Usually, number would be singular, but you might validly use plural numbers if you're thinking of the car thefts and the robberies as completely different things which are counted separately, and you think that's important enough to try to get across (but not so important that you're willing to construct a much longer text, to make