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The Painkiller Posted 18 years ago
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00If you please could check the following sentences and mention which one is academic,02br
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00the period that a business spends with a new customer dealing and studing him or her at the same time is approximately one year02br
00the period that a business spends with a new customer dealing and studing him/her at the same time is approximately one year02br
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00Thanks in advance 0-
  

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0sorry but I can't understand what you are trying to say 02br
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00the 'at the same time' doesn't make any sense02br
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00I'm also a little confused by the idea of 'studying' a customer 02br
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00You deal 'with' people - but how does this take a whole year?0-
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0I am sorry for the misunderstanding02br
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00What's meant is, which one of these two sentences is academic, they are the same, but the differece is shwon in different color02br
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00the period that a business spends with a new customer dealing and studing01font00 him or her02font00 at the same time is approx

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0FWIW, I, too, don't really understand what this sentence is supposed to mean.02br
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00Something is obviously taking approximately a year, but what? Do you mean that a business takes about a year to 01i00acquire02i00 each new customer? In other words, that there is an interval of about a year between the first contact with a prospective customer and
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0Hi Painkiller - yes I understood your question but your sentence doesn't make sense, honestly. Him/her or him or her is the least of its problems. I'd say him or her is more formal. You do have to sort out the other problems in the sentence though as it simply isn't understandable at the moment. Mr Wordy and I are puzzled by the same elements: dealing and studying, what is happening over the

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