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- forty-five hundred - WordReference Forums
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 students
- forty (not fourty?) - WordReference Forums
SAludos, soy nuevo en este foro y también un nuevo estudiante de ingles Mi duda es sobre la palabra forty (40) Por que cambia la forma como se escribe si el numero viene de four (4) Lei en wikipedia que tiene que ver con algo etimologico pero la verdad la explicación era en ingles y no entendi Les dejo la explicación de wikipedia:
- to the south forty - WordReference Forums
As a non-farmer, I would use "the back forty" to refer to the remotest part of someone's land My mother uses it humorously to refer to large backyards In the context the original poster is interested in, it seems to refer to a plot of land that is south of the main house property but still somewhat nearby and presumably owned by the same people
- one hundred forty. - WordReference Forums
But , 140 in Spanish is ciento cuarenta, which is one hundred forty, as it is often written in AE, which differs from one hundred and forty in BE I have heard several times, while in the USA, that within perhaps 30, or 40 years ,in the USA, Spanish speakers will, numerically, be in the majority Is this really the case ? Saludos
- 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 esto trotes Estoy al lado equivocado de los cuarenta
- 40 year 40 years old - WordReference Forums
The forty minutes' ride sounds like there would be some kind of ride and that's its official name Otherwise the expressions with apostrophe tend to sound old to me I avoid the structure whenever possible The hyphen makes the phrase into an adjective, and with adjectives there are never s endings The ready-made sweeper The night-long drive
- 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
- forty pounds on him - WordReference Forums
Grenn was standing his ground as Jon had taught him, giving Albett more than he cared for, but Pyp was hard-pressed Rast had two years and forty pounds on him Hi This text is quoted from A Game of Thrones What does "on" here mean? Does it mean "compared to"? Thank you
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