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Three minutes on stage takes ten years of hard work.
English (England) Mar 23, 2010. #3. arueng said: Three minutes on stage takes ten years of hard work. Hi, The above is a Chinese saying litterally translated into English. It's meant to convey the idea that a person may spend many years of hard work before he can perform well on stage for a short moment.
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Telling time: a quarter or quarter [to/past] - WordReference Forums
Probably the best-known instance of its omission is the song"One For My Baby," by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen (the most famous recording was by Frank Sinatra). It's a"story song," and the singer, whose girlfriend has just left him, is sitting in a bar at 2:45 a.m. In the opening lines, he addresses the bartender:"It's quarter to three.
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hundred or hundreds? - WordReference Forums
Member. Romanian. Mar 7, 2011. #6. That is correct. In compound numerals, 'hundred' and 'thousand' stay invariable: three hundred, two thousand nine hundred etc. The plural is only used to show a large but approximate quantity: hundreds of people, thousands of cars, hundreds of thousands of ants etc. 2.
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three times as many / twice as many | WordReference Forums
Twice as many people voted for A as for C: 2A=C. This is confusing. To me, it's the exact opposite. For example, if 300 people voted for A and 100 people voted for B, three times as many people voted for A as for B. In that case, I'd say 3B=A. The same holds for"twice as many" in my way of seeing it.
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How can I read this in English? m³ (3-small 3) - exponent
An easy way to remember this is that a square with side m has an area equal to m times m, or m^2 (m-squared), and a cube with side m has volume equal to m times m times m, or m^3 (m-cubed). If m is the unit"meter," then you read these as copyright stated. (m^2 means m with an exponent (superscript) of 2.) G.
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In or by installments - WordReference Forums
Sep 20, 2012. #6. When you use by you're talking about a method of paying, so the plural is not required. You can pay by cash, by cheque, by credit card, by voucher - all in the singular. When you use in, the number becomes pertinent, and instalment becomes a countable noun. You can't say pay in instalment, but you can say pay in {two/three ...
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All Slavic languages: one, two, three.. vs"once, two, three ...
Apr 24, 2022. #4. In Bulgarian both are possible. 1. raz, dv a, tri. 2. edno, dv e, tri. When counting in Bulgarian, we always use the neuter forms for one and two. With raz we use the masculine dva (I guess because raz is masculine). H.
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two hours / two-hour - WordReference Forums
English USA. Jul 20, 2006. #12. Not true! You can say"a two hours' walk" or"a three days' trip", as in"It's a three days' trip from here to the coast." At one time it was the standard way to say this in English, and it is the likely form in nineteenth century literature.
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between...and.../between... to... - WordReference Forums
How about we use them this way: 1) This fisher weighs between 3 and 7 kilos. 2) These three fishers weigh between 3 to 7 kilos. No, sorry. In #1, if you have one fisher, I'm going to assume you're weighing him or her. Or can at least guess his weight a little closer than that. And in #2, all three fishers together weigh between 3 and 7 kilos.
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"1 in 3 people" vs."1 of 3 people" vs."1 out of 3" people ...
American English. May 5, 2010. #7. Jo1234 said:"1 in 3" and"1 out of 3" = more general - it can mean any three people, and is usually used for statistics."1 of 3 people" = a specific three people. In refernce to a specific 3, then (at least in AE) we would use an article:"one of the three people"."One in three drivers report not wearing ...
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