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Bookmark or Share- If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four.. yearFrom WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc. I understand that it's surely not exhaustively
- What is the difference between "Per year" and "Per annum"?PER YEAR. We can currently get about 5% per year from investing in long-dated gilts, so we might aim to get 6% per year from the property. Penetration of digital has hit 20 % in a year, with incremental revenue per subscriber at $22 per year and growing, he said.
- word choice - "At the beginning" or "in the beginning"? - English ...They are valid but not interchangeable. I think the most important difference is that "in the beginning" seems to be an expression describing a whole period of time, while "at the beginning" more literally describes a single moment in time, similar to the difference between saying "in the morning" and "at 8 a.m."
- Which is it: "1½ years old" or "1½ year old"? [duplicate]It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or ...
- grammaticality - When is it correct to use the "-wise" suffix ...Since their introduction, these usages have been associated with informal prose, and they are still considered by many to be awkward. For this reason, they might best be avoided, especially in formal writing. The most obvious alternative is to use paraphrases, as in This has not been a good year with respect to sales. As far as taxes are ...
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