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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

interval

I would like to use within and interval. Please correct
Both his parents passed away within 4 month interval.

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The word interval does not fit in your sentence. Say Both his parents passed away within four months , as already suggested .

— RandomGuy

  • The word interval does not fit in your sentence.
  • Say Both his parents passed away within four months , as already suggested .
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The word interval does not fit in your sentence. Say Both his parents passed away within four months, as already suggested.
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It's not natural. Native speakers would say this:

Both his parents passed away within 4 months of each other.
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"The interval" is the measure of the limits, not necessarily the period between them.
"Within the interval" is not idiomatic.

It's okay to say "Both parents passed away within a four month period."
(The article is required, by the way.)

We do use "in the interim" to indicate that something has occured between two points in time, but this would
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