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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
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"the" and years
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Could you help me, please? Which is correct and why: in 90s or in the 90s (in 1990s 0r in the 1990s)? I wouldn't use the article but the books gives the variant with the article. Could you explain why? I thought we don't use numbers and years with articles. Thank you!
Could you help me, please? Which is correct and why: in 90s or in the 90s (in 1990s 0r in the 1990s)? I wouldn't use the article but the books gives the variant with the article. Could you explain why? I thought we don't use numbers and years with articles. Thank you!
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Anonymous Which is correct ... I thought we don't use numbers and years with articles. You can use in the 90s or in the 1990s .
- Anonymous Which is correct ...
- I thought we don't use numbers and years with articles.
- You can use in the 90s or in the 1990s .
- , 1999".
- CJ
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AnonymousWhich is correct ... I thought we don't use numbers and years with articles.You can use in the 90s or in the 1990s. You use 'the' with spans of multiple years because it means "the years of the 1990s" or, to say it with more words, "the years 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, ..., 1999".
CJ
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