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- synonyms - One word substitutions for number of days? - English . . .
Leap year is 366 days Quarter is 3 months and one fourth of a year Archaic sennight (sevennight) was just another word for week, as well as hebdomad (more facetious than archaic) Quarantine is 40 days, though limited in its usage Meteorologists may call 5 days a pentad Catholics had octave for 8 days and still have novena for 9
- Two days is or are? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time – Lawrence Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 15:32
- What does days mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The fourth example is the correct interpretation of day's, but with two things to keep in mind First, in your conclusion you flipped the words around incorrectly*; the journey "belongs to" the day, not the other way around
- Does the term within 7 days mean include the 7th day?
But people often take today to be the first day of the count, so if on Monday someone says "within 3 days" they are thinking day 1=today, Monday; day 2=Tuesday, day 3=Wednesday 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
- What is the difference between: two-day and two days
" two days' " is a possessive form ("an auction of two days") First variant is more common to use Share
- Gone are the days when . . . Is this expression often used?
Gone are the days when you waited six weeks to close on an assignment of a performing large liquid loan Gone are the days when a school or institution could count on being able to offer a standard curriculum and traditional programs to a steady stream of students and their parents Gone too are the days when communication was top-down
- Origin and usage of day of - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
There is an expression I have heard used many times in conversational U S English but cannot recall ever seeing in writing: day of as an adverb, omitting the object of the preposition Examples:
- in vs. on for dates - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Dates are reported in English as being in large units like century, decade, era, epoch, period, etc, and also parts of a day -- morning, afternoon, evening; on individual days; and at individual times, plus at night The event occurred in the twentieth century, specifically at 03:43 Greenwich, in the early morning on August tenth, in 1952
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