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Aug 19, 2007 · 1 If all the three sentences are different, mark 5 as the answer i.e., “all different.”. 81. A). 2 To place three circles ( whose radii are 10 , 15 , and 20 ) for that three right lines may be drawn each , to touch all the three circles. 3 Not only has every Buddha all the three bodies or aspects , but as all men are of the same essence...
Aug 30, 2017 · Central Illinois. American English. Aug 30, 2017. #3. "Three for three" is a sports term meaning "three successes in three attempts. Here, it's sarcastic; the "successes" are people getting in trouble. He doesn't want all three family members to get in trouble in the same week.
Jan 4, 2022 · 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". But the situation I think you have in mind is that papers have been compared one by one and that each one has been given a unique rank, such as "best", "second best", etc., and you want to refer to the top three by rank.
Aug 22, 2013 · US English. Aug 22, 2013. #13. Getting back to threesome vs. three-way: while I had a three-way is unambiguously sexual, the word three-way can be used innocently in many other ways. A three-way intersection (of three roads) is not in a risque relationship. L.
Jul 25, 2007 · Jul 25, 2007. #2. Personally, I would choose the hyphenated version (I'm quite sure it's correct) but I am not that sure when it comes to leaving out the hyphen between "three" and "fifths". three-fifths = 3/5. Let's wait for some more opinions.
Aug 27, 2011 · Sep 4, 2005. #2. Kräuter_Fee: Saying "three-and-twenty" is outdated English, but was perfectly correct in past centuries (don't nail be down on exactly when this way of counting died out). There is the famous English nursery rhyme that goes like this: Sing a song of sixpence, pocket full of rye. Four-and-twenty blackbirds baked in a pie...
May 8, 2007 · Bulgaria, Bulgarian. May 8, 2007. #1. Hi, can you please tell me if all these are correct? 1.a three-storey building. 2. a building on three floors. 3. a building that is three storeys high. 4. a three storeys' building by analogy with a three days' trip.
Mar 2, 2012 · Nope, maybe it is more Russian, the native language of the only person saying they prefer it! I would always say three and a half years. No, in Russian the only normal order is "three and a half years". We never change the words' places in this case (maybe only in poetry to follow the rythm, and it will sound too pompous).
Sep 12, 2013 · Sep 12, 2013. #5. Cagey said: I think that these days, if something or someone is suspected, people would accuse them of being "as phony as a three dollar bill." The dominant meaning of 'queer' is homosexual, and if people say that someone is as "queer as a three dollar bill", they probably mean that they think he is clearly a homosexual.
Aug 30, 2023 · If I want to transform the relative clause in the sentence above into a compound adjective modifying "flowering period", should it be "two-to-three-month flowering period" or "two- to three-month period"? Use suspended hyphens when two or more compound adjectives come before the noun they modify. Incorrect: You can expect a three-four-week ...
