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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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Dam construction is one of the biggest construction projects in our country which allocates a significant amount of development budget annually. Design and construction of these projects usually take at least 6 years in average.
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Dam construction is one of our country's biggest construction projects, accounting for a significant proportion of the development budget annually. Design and construction of these projects usually take s at least six years. It takes six years to do design and construction taken together.
- Dam construction is one of our country's biggest construction projects, accounting for a significant proportion of the development budget annually.
- Design and construction of these projects usually take s at least six years.
- It takes six years to do design and construction taken together.
- " On average" is redundant with "usually", so I left only "usually".
- Also, if six years is actually an average, it can't be "at least" six, because an average is a single number.
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Dam construction is one of our country's biggest construction projects, accounting for a significant proportion of the development budget annually. Design and construction of these projects usually takes at least six years.
It takes six years to do design and construction taken together.
"On average" is redundant with "usually", so
It takes six years to do design and construction taken together.
"On average" is redundant with "usually", so
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Thank you enoon, i want to say that these constructions "use" a significant amount of money, so is this correct?
enoonaccounting for a significant proportion of the development budget annually.
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Yes. You had "allocate", which is done by the people who decide where to spend the money and not by the project. On re-reading, I see that you might have meant that the country allocates the money, in which case, if you wanted to keep the word "allocate", you could make it "Dam construction is one our country's biggest construction projects. We allocate a significant amount of development money to
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Is this correct?
Dam construction is one of our country's biggest construction projects, and a significant amount of development budget is allocated for them annually. Design and construction of these projects usually takes at least six years.
Thank you in advance.
Dam construction is one of our country's biggest construction projects, and a significant amount of development budget is allocated for them annually. Design and construction of these projects usually takes at least six years.
Thank you in advance.
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You can't have an amount of budget. It's a percentage or part or proportion of the budget. You can have an amount of money. You can have an amount of funding.
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