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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
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Between 2000 and 2005 and over the past five years

My English textbook says I cannot replace "between 2000 and 2005" with "over the past five years".
Is that so? What's the difference between these two?

  

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anonymous My English textbook says I cannot replace "between 2000 and 2005" with "over the past five years". Is that so? What's the difference between these two?

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  • anonymous My English textbook says I cannot replace "between 2000 and 2005" with "over the past five years".
  • Is that so?
  • What's the difference between these two?
  • This is being written in 2022, so today 'over the past five years' is 'between 2017 and 2022'.
  • If you state the years in numbers, they stay the same forever, but if you use 'past five years', that changes every year.
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anonymous

My English textbook says I cannot replace "between 2000 and 2005" with "over the past five years".
Is that so? What's the difference between these two?

This is being written in 2022, so today 'over the past five years' is 'between 2017 and 2022'.

If you state the years in numbers, they stay the same forever, but if you use 'past f

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