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Bookmark or Share- she is 20 years my junior/senior | WordReference ForumsIf you are 40 and she is 20 years your junior, she is 20 years old. If you are 40 and she is 20 years your senior, she is 60 years old.
- Saying years - how to speak, pronounce, year numbers ... years and ...2040 = Twenty forty 2050 = Twenty fifty 2060 = Twenty sixty 2070 = Twenty seventy 2080 = Twenty eighty
- forty-five hundred - WordReference Forumsforty-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.
- one hundred forty. - WordReference ForumsBut , 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.
- forty (not fourty?) - WordReference ForumsNotwithstanding being related to the word "four" (4), 40 is spelled "forty", and not "fourty". The reason is that etymologically (also in accents without the horse-hoarse merger), the words have different vowels, "forty" containing a contraction in the same way that "fifty" contains a contraction of "five".
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