"Bob agrees new four year deal" not "Bob agress new four years deal"

Hello!

It should be "new four-year deal"; here "year" is used as an adjective, so doesn't take the "-s" of the plural.

And, one more thing: it should be "Bob agrees to a new four-year deal"

(If this is a headline, the to a is commonly omitted.)

Even in a headline, I don't think you would see "Bob agrees new four-year deal" -- it would probably by "Bob okays new four-year deal."

Here's a few, khoff:

Striker Novo agrees four-year deal with Rangers
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Santana Agrees Four-Year Deal with Minnesota Twins

(2005-02-14)

TORONTO (Reuters) - Minnesota Twins and their Cy Young award winning pitcher Johan Santana agreed to a four-year contract estimated to be worth $40 million Monday, avoiding a salary arb

Mr. M. - okay, I stand corrected. Are all these sources either British or Canadian? Maybe it hasn't hit the States yet.

I don't know, khoff-- I just open-googled (no specific domains) and pulled them off the first couple of pages.

Hi guys,

Found this by Google-ing my name (I'm Luke, wrote a headline - Butler agrees four year deal - that appeared in the discussion).

I don't understand the grammar reasoning, though I am a journalist, but I'm British if that helps.

"Bob agrees new four-year deal" sounds fine to me, as a headline; though I can't help wondering which particular Bob it is.

MrP