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Saraba Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

"It will approach or top 80%".

Is this a natural English?
To mean "it will be close to 80% or will go over 80%"
  

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That's not wrong, but more natural is eg It will be around 80%.

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  • That's not wrong, but more natural is eg It will be around 80%.
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That's not wrong, but more natural is eg It will be around 80%.
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Thank you very much.
If you want to also say like "go over / top / be more", what would you say?
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eg It will top 80%.
eg It will be more than 80%.
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Thank you very much!
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