
Two days "is" or "are"? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2017年6月18日 · Is if you're treating the two days as a single length of time; are if you're treating them as multiple lengths of time. – Lawrence Commented Jun 18, 2017 at 15:32
Logical meaning of "within 30 days" compared to "in 30 or fewer …
2015年4月29日 · Within 30 days means within any duration of time less than or equal to 30 days (measured from some starting point). The following would all meet the requirement of within 30 days: 1 day, 3.14159265358979... days, 29 days, 29 1/2 days, 29.314159265358979... days. Within 30 days or less means exactly the same thing as within 30 days. That is, the ...
'Gone are the days when ... ' Is this expression often used?
2019年1月21日 · Gone are the days when you waited six weeks to close on an assignment of a performing large liquid loan. Gone are the days when a school or institution could count on being able to offer a standard curriculum and traditional programs to a steady stream of students and their parents. Gone too are the days when communication was top-down
'In the upcoming days' - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2018年12月29日 · "In the coming days" is acceptable but probably too formal, I agree with @BoldBen's comment that "In the next few days" is a better choice. "In the next couple of days" also works, and arguably implies a slightly shorter time frame (the next few days could be 1-4 days, whereas the next couple of days probably means 2-3 days)
'in' vs. 'on' for dates - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2015年3月31日 · Dates are reported in English as being in large units like century, decade, era, epoch, period, etc, and also parts of a day -- morning, afternoon, evening; on individual days; and at individual times, plus at night. The event occurred in the twentieth century, specifically at 03:43 Greenwich, in the early morning on August tenth, in 1952.
Meaning of "by" when used with dates - inclusive or exclusive
2014年8月28日 · If, in a contract fr example, the text reads: "X has to finish the work by MM-DD-YYYY", does the "by" include the date or exclude it? In other words, will the work delivered on the specified date
"Within" and "in" when referring to time - English Language
2012年2月3日 · Within is regarded as specifying an upper limit: within two days means maybe today, maybe tomorrow, but no later than two days from now. In is sometimes regarded as more precise: in two days could mean two days from now – particularly with a scheduled event, such as a party. That said, there are exceptions where the word in can be more ...
word choice - "In the last 3 months" vs "in the past 3 months ...
Today is Oct. 13, 2010. It can be argued that in the last 3 months would be intuitively understood as the time frame from 8/13/2010 to 10/12/2010, while in the past three months would mean July, August, and September.
prepositions - "Before date" versus "by date" - English Language ...
2013年3月5日 · Although, by definition, “before Tuesday” actually means “by Monday at the latest”, many people still confuse “by” (up to AND including) and “before” (up to BUT excluding).
Expiry or expiration? - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange
2014年12月7日 · We could talk about the date of expiration, as'expiration' is the noun version of the word. The word 'investigation' is a noun, also: 'the cost of the investigation was very high' 'There was a complication', etc. when you look at 'expiry date', 'date' is the noun, and 'expiry' is the adjective that relates to the noun; start date, renewal date, etc.